EMNLP
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
While significant effort has been put into annotating linguistic resources for several languages, there are still many left that have only small amounts of such resources. This p...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
One major bottleneck in conversational systems is their incapability in interpreting unexpected user language inputs such as out-ofvocabulary words. To overcome this problem, conv...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Compared to the telephone, email based customer care is increasingly becoming the preferred channel of communication for corporations and customers. Most email-based customer care...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
This paper introduces a new kernel which computes similarity between two natural language sentences as the number of paths shared by their dependency trees. The paper gives a very...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
In domains with insufficient matched training data, language models are often constructed by interpolating component models trained from partially matched corpora. Since the ngram...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
This paper describes a lexical trigger model for statistical machine translation. We present various methods using triplets incorporating long-distance dependencies that can go be...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) is an effective means to estimate the feature function weights of a linear model such that an automated evaluation criterion for measuring syste...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
This paper explores the challenge of scaling up language processing algorithms to increasingly large datasets. While cluster computing has been available in commercial environment...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
We present a novel learning framework for pipeline models aimed at improving the communication between consecutive stages in a pipeline. Our method exploits the confidence scores ...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008