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COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Class-Driven Attribute Extraction
We report on the large-scale acquisition of class attributes with and without the use of lists of representative instances, as well as the discovery of unary attributes, such as t...
Benjamin Van Durme, Ting Qian, Lenhart Schubert
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Tera-Scale Translation Models via Pattern Matching
Translation model size is growing at a pace that outstrips improvements in computing power, and this hinders research on many interesting models. We show how an algorithmic scalin...
Adam Lopez
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Hindi Urdu Machine Transliteration using Finite-State Transducers
Finite-state Transducers (FST) can be very efficient to implement inter-dialectal transliteration. We illustrate this on the Hindi and Urdu language pair. FSTs can also be used fo...
M. G. Abbas Malik, Christian Boitet, Pushpak Bhatt...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Choosing the Right Translation: A Syntactically Informed Classification Approach
One style of Multi-Engine Machine Translation architecture involves choosing the best of a set of outputs from different systems. Choosing the best translation from an arbitrary s...
Simon Zwarts, Mark Dras
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Induction of Labeled Parse Trees by Clustering with Syntactic Features
We present an algorithm for unsupervised induction of labeled parse trees. The algorithm has three stages: bracketing, initial labeling, and label clustering. Bracketing is done f...
Roi Reichart, Ari Rappoport
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Random Restarts in Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
Och's (2003) minimum error rate training (MERT) procedure is the most commonly used method for training feature weights in statistical machine translation (SMT) models. The u...
Robert C. Moore, Chris Quirk
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Other-Anaphora Resolution in Biomedical Texts with Automatically Mined Patterns
This paper proposes an other-anaphora resolution approach in bio-medical texts. It utilizes automatically mined patterns to discover the semantic relation between an anaphor and a...
Bin Chen, Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Reading the Markets: Forecasting Public Opinion of Political Candidates by News Analysis
Media reporting shapes public opinion which can in turn influence events, particularly in political elections, in which candidates both respond to and shape public perception of t...
Kevin Lerman, Ari Gilder, Mark Dredze, Fernando Pe...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Hybrid Processing for Grammar and Style Checking
This paper presents an implemented hybrid approach to grammar and style checking, combining an industrial patternbased grammar and style checker with bidirectional, large-scale HP...
Berthold Crysmann, Nuria Bertomeu, Peter Adolphs, ...