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ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Minimally Lexicalized Dependency Parsing
Dependency structures do not have the information of phrase categories in phrase structure grammar. Thus, dependency parsing relies heavily on the lexical information of words. Th...
Daisuke Kawahara, Kiyotaka Uchimoto
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Segmentation for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation
In this paper, we report on a set of initial results for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We show that morphological decomposition of the Arabic source is ...
Ibrahim Badr, Rabih Zbib, James R. Glass
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Syntax-based Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation
Inspired by previous preprocessing approaches to SMT, this paper proposes a novel, probabilistic approach to reordering which combines the merits of syntax and phrase-based SMT. G...
Chi-Ho Li, Minghui Li, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Ming...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Adapting a WSJ-Trained Parser to Grammatically Noisy Text
We present a robust parser which is trained on a treebank of ungrammatical sentences. The treebank is created automatically by modifying Penn treebank sentences so that they conta...
Jennifer Foster, Joachim Wagner, Josef van Genabit...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Making Sense of Sound: Unsupervised Topic Segmentation over Acoustic Input
We address the task of unsupervised topic segmentation of speech data operating over raw acoustic information. In contrast to existing algorithms for topic segmentation of speech,...
Igor Malioutov, Alex Park, Regina Barzilay, James ...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Semantic Types of Some Generic Relation Arguments: Detection and Evaluation
This paper presents an approach to detection of the semantic types of relation arguments employing the WordNet hierarchy. Using the SemEval-2007 data, we show that the method allo...
Sophia Katrenko, Pieter W. Adriaans
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Distributed Listening: A Parallel Processing Approach to Automatic Speech Recognition
While speech recognition systems have come a long way in the last thirty years, there is still room for improvement. Although readily available, these systems are sometimes inaccu...
Yolanda McMillian, Juan E. Gilbert
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Expanding Indonesian-Japanese Small Translation Dictionary Using a Pivot Language
We propose a novel method to expand a small existing translation dictionary to a large translation dictionary using a pivot language. Our method depends on the assumption that it ...
Masatoshi Tsuchiya, Ayu Purwarianti, Toshiyuki Wak...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Self-Training for Biomedical Parsing
Parser self-training is the technique of taking an existing parser, parsing extra data and then creating a second parser by treating the extra data as further training data. Here ...
David McClosky, Eugene Charniak