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ACL
2012
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
11 years 10 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
11 years 10 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