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ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Hybrid Rule/Model-Based Finite-State Framework for Normalizing SMS Messages
In recent years, research in natural language processing has increasingly focused on normalizing SMS messages. Different well-defined approaches have been proposed, but the proble...
Richard Beaufort, Sophie Roekhaut, Louise-Am&eacut...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Evaluation of Linguistic Quality in Multi-Document Summarization
To date, few attempts have been made to develop and validate methods for automatic evaluation of linguistic quality in text summarization. We present the first systematic assessme...
Emily Pitler, Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Finding Cognate Groups Using Phylogenies
A central problem in historical linguistics is the identification of historically related cognate words. We present a generative phylogenetic model for automatically inducing cogn...
David Hall, Dan Klein
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Phylogenetic Grammar Induction
We present an approach to multilingual grammar induction that exploits a phylogeny-structured model of parameter drift. Our method does not require any translated texts or token-l...
Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Dan Klein
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
On Learning Subtypes of the Part-Whole Relation: Do Not Mix Your Seeds
An important relation in information extraction is the part-whole relation. Ontological studies mention several types of this relation. In this paper, we show that the traditional...
Ashwin Ittoo, Gosse Bouma
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Statistical Machine Translation with Monolingual Collocation
This paper proposes to use monolingual collocations to improve Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We make use of the collocation probabilities, which are estimated from monoli...
Zhan-yi Liu, Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Sheng Li
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Arguments and Supertypes of Semantic Relations Using Recursive Patterns
A challenging problem in open information extraction and text mining is the learning of the selectional restrictions of semantic relations. We propose a minimally supervised boots...
Zornitsa Kozareva, Eduard H. Hovy
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Multilingual Pseudo-Relevance Feedback: Performance Study of Assisting Languages
In a previous work of ours Chinnakotla et al. (2010) we introduced a novel framework for Pseudo-Relevance Feedback (PRF) called MultiPRF. Given a query in one language called Sour...
Manoj Kumar Chinnakotla, Karthik Raman, Pushpak Bh...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Training Phrase Translation Models with Leaving-One-Out
Several attempts have been made to learn phrase translation probabilities for phrasebased statistical machine translation that go beyond pure counting of phrases in word-aligned t...
Joern Wuebker, Arne Mauser, Hermann Ney
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Script Knowledge with Web Experiments
We describe a novel approach to unsupervised learning of the events that make up a script, along with constraints on their temporal ordering. We collect naturallanguage descriptio...
Michaela Regneri, Alexander Koller, Manfred Pinkal