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NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Analysis and System Combination of Phrase- and N-Gram-Based Statistical Machine Translation Systems
In the framework of the Tc-Star project, we analyze and propose a combination of two Statistical Machine Translation systems: a phrase-based and an N-gram-based one. The exhaustiv...
Marta R. Costa-Jussà, Josep Maria Crego, Da...
NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Relationship between Non-Projective Edges, Their Level Types, and Well-Nestedness
Dependency analysis of natural language gives rise to non-projective structures. The constraint of well-nestedness on dependency trees has been recently shown to give a good fit ...
Jirí Havelka
NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Semi-Supervised Learning for Semantic Parsing using Support Vector Machines
We present a method for utilizing unannotated sentences to improve a semantic parser which maps natural language (NL) sentences into their formal meaning representations (MRs). Gi...
Rohit J. Kate, Raymond J. Mooney
NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Reversible Sound-to-Letter/Letter-to-Sound Modeling Based on Syllable Structure
This paper describes a new grapheme-tophoneme framework, based on a combination of formal linguistic and statistical methods. A context-free grammar is used to parse words into th...
Stephanie Seneff
NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Language Modeling for Determiner Selection
We present a method for automatic determiner selection, based on an existing language model. We train on the Penn Treebank and also use additional data from the North American New...
Jenine Turner, Eugene Charniak
NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A Three-Step Deterministic Parser for Chinese Dependency Parsing
This paper presents a three-step dependency parser to parse Chinese deterministically. By dividing a sentence into several parts and parsing them separately, it aims to reduce the...
Kun Yu, Sadao Kurohashi, Hao Liu
NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
ILR-Based MT Comprehension Test with Multi-Level Questions
We present results from a new Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) based comprehension test. This new test design presents questions at multiple ILR difficulty levels within each...
Douglas Jones, Martha Herzog, Hussny Ibrahim, Arvi...
NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A Geometric Interpretation of Non-Target-Normalized Maximum Cross-Channel Correlation for Vocal Activity Detection in Meetings
Vocal activity detection is an important technology for both automatic speech recognition and automatic speech understanding. In meetings, standard vocal activity detection algori...
Kornel Laskowski, Tanja Schultz
NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Virtual Evidence for Training Speech Recognizers Using Partially Labeled Data
Collecting supervised training data for automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems is both time consuming and expensive. In this paper we use the notion of virtual evidence in a g...
Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff A. Bilmes
NAACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Comparing User Simulation Models For Dialog Strategy Learning
This paper explores what kind of user simulation model is suitable for developing a training corpus for using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) to automatically learn dialog strate...
Hua Ai, Joel R. Tetreault, Diane J. Litman