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EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Recognizing Textual Relatedness with Predicate-Argument Structures
In this paper, we first compare several strategies to handle the newly proposed three-way Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) task. Then we define a new measurement for a pair of...
Rui Wang 0005, Yi Zhang 0003
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Feasibility of Human-in-the-loop Minimum Error Rate Training
Minimum error rate training (MERT) involves choosing parameter values for a machine translation (MT) system that maximize performance on a tuning set as measured by an automatic e...
Omar Zaidan, Chris Callison-Burch
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Effective Use of Linguistic and Contextual Information for Statistical Machine Translation
Current methods of using lexical features in machine translation have difficulty in scaling up to realistic MT tasks due to a prohibitively large number of parameters involved. In...
Libin Shen, Jinxi Xu, Bing Zhang, Spyros Matsoukas...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Bayesian Model of Syntax-Directed Tree to String Grammar Induction
Tree based translation models are a compelling means of integrating linguistic information into machine translation. Syntax can inform lexical selection and reordering choices and...
Trevor Cohn, Phil Blunsom
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Comparison of Windowless and Window-Based Computational Association Measures as Predictors of Syntagmatic Human Associations
Distance-based (windowless) word assocation measures have only very recently appeared in the NLP literature and their performance compared to existing windowed or frequency-based ...
Justin Washtell, Katja Markert
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
We present the first unsupervised approach to the problem of learning a semantic parser, using Markov logic. Our USP system transforms dependency trees into quasi-logical forms, r...
Hoifung Poon, Pedro Domingos
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised morphological segmentation and clustering with document boundaries
Many approaches to unsupervised morphology acquisition incorporate the frequency of character sequences with respect to each other to identify word stems and affixes. This typical...
Taesun Moon, Katrin Erk, Jason Baldridge
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Clustering to Find Exemplar Terms for Keyphrase Extraction
Keyphrases are widely used as a brief summary of documents. Since manual assignment is time-consuming, various unsupervised ranking methods based on importance scores are proposed...
Zhiyuan Liu, Peng Li, Yabin Zheng, Maosong Sun
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation
This paper investigates a new task, subjectivity word sense disambiguation (SWSD), which is to automatically determine which word instances in a corpus are being used with subject...
Cem Akkaya, Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Unified Model of Phrasal and Sentential Evidence for Information Extraction
Information Extraction (IE) systems that extract role fillers for events typically look at the local context surrounding a phrase when deciding whether to extract it. Often, howev...
Siddharth Patwardhan, Ellen Riloff