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ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Named Entity Disambiguation in Streaming Data
The named entity disambiguation task is to resolve the many-to-many correspondence between ambiguous names and the unique realworld entity. This task can be modeled as a classifi...
Alexandre Davis, Adriano Veloso, Altigran Soares d...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Hierarchical Chunk-to-String Translation
We present a hierarchical chunk-to-string translation model, which can be seen as a compromise between the hierarchical phrasebased model and the tree-to-string model, to combine ...
Yang Feng, Dongdong Zhang, Mu Li, Qun Liu
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Learning to Find Translations and Transliterations on the Web
In this paper, we present a new method for learning to finding translations and transliterations on the Web for a given term. The approach involves using a small set of terms and ...
Joseph Z. Chang, Jason S. Chang, Jyh-Shing Roger J...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Selective Sharing for Multilingual Dependency Parsing
We present a novel algorithm for multilingual dependency parsing that uses annotations from a diverse set of source languages to parse a new unannotated language. Our motivation i...
Tahira Naseem, Regina Barzilay, Amir Globerson
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Extracting and modeling durations for habits and events from Twitter
We seek to automatically estimate typical durations for events and habits described in Twitter tweets. A corpus of more than 14 million tweets containing temporal duration informa...
Jennifer Williams, Graham Katz
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
A Comparative Study of Target Dependency Structures for Statistical Machine Translation
This paper presents a comparative study of target dependency structures yielded by several state-of-the-art linguistic parsers. Our approach is to measure the impact of these noni...
Xianchao Wu, Katsuhito Sudoh, Kevin Duh, Hajime Ts...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Deciphering Foreign Language by Combining Language Models and Context Vectors
In this paper we show how to train statistical machine translation systems on reallife tasks using only non-parallel monolingual data from two languages. We present a modificatio...
Malte Nuhn, Arne Mauser, Hermann Ney
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Head-driven Transition-based Parsing with Top-down Prediction
This paper presents a novel top-down headdriven parsing algorithm for data-driven projective dependency analysis. This algorithm handles global structures, such as clause and coor...
Katsuhiko Hayashi, Taro Watanabe, Masayuki Asahara...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Finding Salient Dates for Building Thematic Timelines
We present an approach for detecting salient (important) dates in texts in order to automatically build event timelines from a search query (e.g. the name of an event or person, e...
Rémy Kessler, Xavier Tannier, Caroline Hag&...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction with Global Role Ordering
We propose a probabilistic generative model for unsupervised semantic role induction, which integrates local role assignment decisions and a global role ordering decision in a uni...
Nikhil Garg, James Henserdon