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EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Experiments with a Higher-Order Projective Dependency Parser
We present experiments with a dependency parsing model defined on rich factors. Our model represents dependency trees with factors that include three types of relations between t...
Xavier Carreras
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Syntactic Re-Alignment Models for Machine Translation
We present a method for improving word alignment for statistical syntax-based machine translation that employs a syntactically informed alignment model closer to the translation m...
Jonathan May, Kevin Knight
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Word Alignment with Bridge Languages
We describe an approach to improve Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) performance using multi-lingual, parallel, sentence-aligned corpora in several bridge languages. Our appro...
Shankar Kumar, Franz Josef Och, Wolfgang Macherey
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Antecedent Selection Techniques for High-Recall Coreference Resolution
We investigate methods to improve the recall in coreference resolution by also trying to resolve those definite descriptions where no earlier mention of the referent shares the s...
Yannick Versley
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Incremental Text Structuring with Online Hierarchical Ranking
Many emerging applications require documents to be repeatedly updated. Such documents include newsfeeds, webpages, and shared community resources such as Wikipedia. In this paper ...
Erdong Chen, Benjamin Snyder, Regina Barzilay
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Learning Noun Phrase Query Segmentation
Query segmentation is the process of taking a user’s search-engine query and dividing the tokens into individual phrases or semantic units. Identification of these query segmen...
Shane Bergsma, Qin Iris Wang
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Generating Lexical Analogies Using Dependency Relations
A lexical analogy is a pair of word-pairs that share a similar semantic relation. Lexical analogies occur frequently in text and are useful in various natural language processing ...
Andy Chiu, Pascal Poupart, Chrysanne DiMarco
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Word Sense Disambiguation Incorporating Lexical and Structural Semantic Information
We present results that show that incorporating lexical and structural semantic information is effective for word sense disambiguation. We evaluated the method by using precise in...
Takaaki Tanaka, Francis Bond, Timothy Baldwin, San...
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
The CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing
The Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning features a shared task, in which participants train and test their learning systems on the same data sets. In 2007, as in...
Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall, Sandra Kübler, Ryan...
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Mandarin Part-of-Speech Tagging and Discriminative Reranking
We present in this paper methods to improve HMM-based part-of-speech (POS) tagging of Mandarin. We model the emission probability of an unknown word using all the characters in th...
Zhongqiang Huang, Mary P. Harper, Wen Wang