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ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Blog Categorization Exploiting Domain Dictionary and Dynamically Estimated Domains of Unknown Words
This paper presents an approach to text categorization that i) uses no machine learning and ii) reacts on-the-fly to unknown words. These features are important for categorizing B...
Chikara Hashimoto, Sadao Kurohashi
ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Query-based Sentence Fusion is Better Defined and Leads to More Preferred Results than Generic Sentence Fusion
We show that question-based sentence fusion is a better defined task than generic sentence fusion (Q-based fusions are shorter, display less variety in length, yield more identica...
Emiel Krahmer, Erwin Marsi, Paul Pelt
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Forest Rescoring: Faster Decoding with Integrated Language Models
Efficient decoding has been a fundamental problem in machine translation, especially with an integrated language model which is essential for achieving good translation quality. ...
Liang Huang, David Chiang
ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Enriching Spoken Language Translation with Dialog Acts
Current statistical speech translation approaches predominantly rely on just text transcripts and do not adequately utilize the rich contextual information such as conveyed throug...
Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore...
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Supertagged Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Until quite recently, extending Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (PBSMT) with syntactic structure caused system performance to deteriorate. In this work we show that i...
Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima'an, Andy Way
ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown: Morphosyllabic Sentiment Tagging of Unseen Words
The omnipresence of unknown words is a problem that any NLP component needs to address in some form. While there exist many established techniques for dealing with unknown words i...
Karo Moilanen, Stephen G. Pulman
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Predicting Success in Dialogue
David Reitter, Johanna D. Moore
ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Construct State Modification in the Arabic Treebank
Earlier work in parsing Arabic has speculated that attachment to construct state constructions decreases parsing performance. We make this speculation precise and define the probl...
Ryan Gabbard, Seth Kulick
ACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
The Utility of a Graphical Representation of Discourse Structure in Spoken Dialogue Systems
In this paper we explore the utility of the Navigation Map (NM), a graphical representation of the discourse structure. We run a user study to investigate if users perceive the NM...
Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman
ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Smoothing a Tera-word Language Model
Frequency counts from very large corpora, such as the Web 1T dataset, have recently become available for language modeling. Omission of low frequency n-gram counts is a practical ...
Deniz Yuret