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ACL
2012
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Historical Analysis of Legal Opinions with a Sparse Mixed-Effects Latent Variable Model
We propose a latent variable model to enhance historical analysis of large corpora. This work extends prior work in topic modelling by incorporating metadata, and the interactions...
William Yang Wang, Elijah Mayfield, Suresh Naidu, ...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Enhancing Statistical Machine Translation with Character Alignment
The dominant practice of statistical machine translation (SMT) uses the same Chinese word segmentation specification in both alignment and translation rule induction steps in buil...
Ning Xi, Guangchao Tang, Xinyu Dai, Shujian Huang,...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Cross-lingual Parse Disambiguation based on Semantic Correspondence
We present a system for cross-lingual parse disambiguation, exploiting the assumption that the meaning of a sentence remains unchanged during translation and the fact that differe...
Lea Frermann, Francis Bond
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Reducing Wrong Labels in Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction
In relation extraction, distant supervision seeks to extract relations between entities from text by using a knowledge base, such as Freebase, as a source of supervision. When a s...
Shingo Takamatsu, Issei Sato, Hiroshi Nakagawa
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Robust Conversion of CCG Derivations to Phrase Structure Trees
We propose an improved, bottom-up method for converting CCG derivations into PTB-style phrase structure trees. In contrast with past work (Clark and Curran, 2009), which used simp...
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Dan Klein, James R. Curran
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Exploiting Social Information in Grounded Language Learning via Grammatical Reduction
This paper uses an unsupervised model of grounded language acquisition to study the role that social cues play in language acquisition. The input to the model consists of (orthogr...
Mark Johnson, Katherine Demuth, Michael C. Frank
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Event Linking: Grounding Event Reference in a News Archive
Interpreting news requires identifying its constituent events. Events are complex linguistically and ontologically, so disambiguating their reference is challenging. We introduce ...
Joel Nothman, Matthew Honnibal, Ben Hachey, James ...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Learning High-Level Planning from Text
Comprehending action preconditions and effects is an essential step in modeling the dynamics of the world. In this paper, we express the semantics of precondition relations extrac...
S. R. K. Branavan, Nate Kushman, Tao Lei, Regina B...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Unsupervised Morphology Rivals Supervised Morphology for Arabic MT
If unsupervised morphological analyzers could approach the effectiveness of supervised ones, they would be a very attractive choice for improving MT performance on low-resource in...
David Stallard, Jacob Devlin, Michael Kayser, Yoon...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Automatic Event Extraction with Structured Preference Modeling
This paper presents a novel sequence labeling model based on the latent-variable semiMarkov conditional random fields for jointly extracting argument roles of events from texts. ...
Wei Lu, Dan Roth