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EMNLP
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive Language and Translation Models for Interactive Machine Translation
We describe experiments carried out with adaptive language and translation models in the context of an interactive computer-assisted translation program. We developed cache-based ...
Laurent Nepveu, Guy Lapalme, Philippe Langlais, Ge...
EMNLP
2004
13 years 11 months ago
A New Approach for English-Chinese Named Entity Alignment
Traditional word alignment approaches cannot come up with satisfactory results for Named Entities. In this paper, we propose a novel approach using a maximum entropy model for nam...
Donghui Feng, Yajuan Lü, Ming Zhou
EMNLP
2004
13 years 11 months ago
VerbOcean: Mining the Web for Fine-Grained Semantic Verb Relations
Broad-coverage repositories of semantic relations between verbs could benefit many NLP tasks. We present a semi-automatic method for extracting fine-grained semantic relations bet...
Timothy Chklovski, Patrick Pantel
EMNLP
2004
13 years 11 months ago
On Log-Likelihood-Ratios and the Significance of Rare Events
We address the issue of judging the significance of rare events as it typically arises in statistical naturallanguage processing. We first define a general approach to the problem...
Robert C. Moore
EMNLP
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised Domain Relevance Estimation for Word Sense Disambiguation
This paper presents Domain Relevance Estimation (DRE), a fully unsupervised text categorization technique based on the statistical estimation of the relevance of a text with respe...
Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Bernardo Magnini, Carl...
EMNLP
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Bilingual Parsing with Factored Estimation: Using English to Parse Korean
We describe how simple, commonly understood statistical models, such as statistical dependency parsers, probabilistic context-free grammars, and word-to-word translation models, c...
David A. Smith, Noah A. Smith
EMNLP
2004
13 years 11 months ago
The Entropy Rate Principle as a Predictor of Processing Effort: An Evaluation against Eye-tracking Data
This paper provides evidence for Genzel and Charniak's (2002) entropy rate principle, which predicts that the entropy of a sentence increases with its position in the text. W...
Frank Keller
EMNLP
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Learning Hebrew Roots: Machine Learning with Linguistic Constraints
The morphology of Semitic languages is unique in the sense that the major word-formation mechanism is an inherently non-concatenative process of interdigitation, whereby two morph...
Ezra Daya, Dan Roth, Shuly Wintner
EMNLP
2004
13 years 11 months ago
Object-Extraction and Question-Parsing using CCG
Accurate dependency recovery has recently been reported for a number of wide-coverage statistical parsers using Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG). However, overall figures give...
Stephen Clark, Mark Steedman, James R. Curran