COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Zulu is an indigenous language of South Africa, and one of the eleven official languages of that country. It is spoken by about 11 million speakers. Although it is similar in size...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Tree-based translation models, which exploit the linguistic syntax of source language, usually separate decoding into two steps: parsing and translation. Although this separation ...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper investigates the use and the prediction potential of semantic similarity measures for automatic generation of links across different documents and passages. First, the ...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Hierarchical phrase-based machine translation can capture global reordering with synchronous context-free grammar, but has little ability to evaluate the correctness of word order...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We propose to analyse semantic similarity in comparable text by matching syntactic trees and labeling the alignments according to one of five semantic similarity relations. We pre...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present a novel approach to automatic metaphor identification in unrestricted text. Starting from a small seed set of manually annotated metaphorical expressions, the system is...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Dative variation is a widely observed syntactic phenomenon in world languages (e.g. I gave John a book and I gave a book to John). It has been shown that which surface form will b...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper proposes a new approach to phrase rescoring for statistical machine translation (SMT). A set of novel features capturing the translingual equivalence between a source a...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We explore the near-synonym lexical choice problem using a novel representation of near-synonyms and their contexts in the latent semantic space. In contrast to traditional latent...