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ACL
2012
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A Corpus of Textual Revisions in Second Language Writing
This paper describes the creation of the first large-scale corpus containing drafts and final versions of essays written by non-native speakers, with the sentences aligned acros...
John Lee, Jonathan Webster
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Extracting Narrative Timelines as Temporal Dependency Structures
We propose a new approach to characterizing the timeline of a text: temporal dependency structures, where all the events of a narrative are linked via partial ordering relations l...
Oleksandr Kolomiyets, Steven Bethard, Marie-Franci...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Labeling Documents with Timestamps: Learning from their Time Expressions
Temporal reasoners for document understanding typically assume that a document’s creation date is known. Algorithms to ground relative time expressions and order events often re...
Nathanael Chambers
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
BIUTEE: A Modular Open-Source System for Recognizing Textual Entailment
This paper introduces BIUTEE1 , an opensource system for recognizing textual entailment. Its main advantages are its ability to utilize various types of knowledge resources, and i...
Asher Stern, Ido Dagan
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Combining Word-Level and Character-Level Models for Machine Translation Between Closely-Related Languages
We propose several techniques for improving statistical machine translation between closely-related languages with scarce resources. We use character-level translation trained on ...
Preslav Nakov, Jörg Tiedemann
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Acoustic Model Discovery
We investigate the problem of acoustic modeling in which prior language-specific knowledge and transcribed data are unavailable. We present an unsupervised model that simultaneou...
Chia-ying Lee, James R. Glass
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Estimating Compact Yet Rich Tree Insertion Grammars
We present a Bayesian nonparametric model for estimating tree insertion grammars (TIG), building upon recent work in Bayesian inference of tree substitution grammars (TSG) via Dir...
Elif Yamangil, Stuart M. Shieber
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Iterative Viterbi A* Algorithm for K-Best Sequential Decoding
Zhiheng Huang, Yi Chang, Bo Long, Jean-Francois Cr...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Concept-to-text Generation via Discriminative Reranking
This paper proposes a data-driven method for concept-to-text generation, the task of automatically producing textual output from non-linguistic input. A key insight in our approac...
Ioannis Konstas, Mirella Lapata
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Applications of GPC Rules and Character Structures in Games for Learning Chinese Characters
We demonstrate applications of psycholinguistic and sublexical information for learning Chinese characters. The knowledge about the grapheme-phoneme conversion (GPC) rules of lang...
Wei-Jie Huang, Chia-Ru Chou, Yu-Lin Tzeng, Chia-Yi...