NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We describe Castanet, an algorithm for automatically generating hierarchical faceted metadata from textual descriptions of items, to be incorporated into browsing and navigation i...
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
In word sense disambiguation, choosing the most frequent sense for an ambiguous word is a powerful heuristic. However, its usefulness is restricted by the availability of sense-an...
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We analyze subword-based language models (LMs) in large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition across four “morphologically rich” languages: Finnish, Estonian, Turkish, and ...
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
This paper explores the use of statistical machine translation (SMT) methods for tactical natural language generation. We present results on using phrase-based SMT for learning to...
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We propose a high-performance cascaded hybrid model for Chinese NER. Firstly, we use Boosting, a standard and theoretically wellfounded machine learning method to combine a set of...
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
This paper describes a method for generating sense-tagged data using Wikipedia as a source of sense annotations. Through word sense disambiguation experiments, we show that the Wi...
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We present a diacritization system for written Arabic which is based on a lexical resource. It combines a tagger and a lexeme language model. It improves on the best results repor...
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
This paper presents a maximum entropy machine translation system using a minimal set of translation blocks (phrase-pairs). While recent phrase-based statistical machine translatio...
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
This paper studies methods that automatically detect action-items in e-mail, an important category for assisting users in identifying new tasks, tracking ongoing ones, and searchi...