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NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A Probabilistic Framework for Answer Selection in Question Answering
This paper describes a probabilistic answer selection framework for question answering. In contrast with previous work using individual resources such as ontologies and the Web to...
Jeongwoo Ko, Luo Si, Eric Nyberg
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Answer Typing for How-Questions
We introduce an answer typing strategy specific to quantifiable how questions. Using the web as a data source, we automatically collect answer units appropriate to a given how-q...
Christopher Pinchak, Shane Bergsma
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Randomized Decoding for Selection-and-Ordering Problems
The task of selecting and ordering information appears in multiple contexts in text generation and summarization. For instance, methods for title generation construct a headline b...
Pawan Deshpande, Regina Barzilay, David R. Karger
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Hybrid Models for Semantic Classification of Chinese Unknown Words
This paper addresses the problem of classifying Chinese unknown words into fine-grained semantic categories defined in a Chinese thesaurus. We describe three novel knowledge-based...
Xiaofei Lu
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Assessment of Student Translations for Foreign Language Tutoring
This paper introduces the use of speech translation technology for a new type of voice-interactive Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) application. We describe a computer game...
Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A Cascaded Machine Learning Approach to Interpreting Temporal Expressions
A new architecture for identifying and interpreting temporal expressions is introduced, in which the large set of complex hand-crafted rules standard in systems for this task is r...
David Ahn, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Diversity in Ranking using Absorbing Random Walks
Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew B. Goldberg, Jurgen Van Gael, ...
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Source-Language Features and Maximum Correlation Training for Machine Translation Evaluation
We propose three new features for MT evaluation: source-sentence constrained n-gram precision, source-sentence reordering metrics, and discriminative unigram precision, as well as...
Ding Liu, Daniel Gildea