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FINTAL
2006
14 years 3 months ago
Using Alignment Templates to Infer Shallow-Transfer Machine Translation Rules
When building rule-based machine translation systems, a considerable human effort is needed to code the transfer rules that are able to translate source-language sentences into gra...
Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Hermann Ney
FINTAL
2006
14 years 3 months ago
Experiments in Passage Selection and Answer Identification for Question Answering
Question Answering (QA) aims at providing users with short text units that answer specific, well-formed natural language questions. A two stage architecture is widely adopted for t...
Horacio Saggion, Robert J. Gaizauskas
FINTAL
2006
14 years 3 months ago
A Straightforward Method for Automatic Identification of Marginalized Languages
Spoken language identification consists in recognizing a language based on a sample of speech from an unknown speaker. The traditional approach for this task mainly considers the p...
Ana Lilia Reyes-Herrera, Luis Villaseñor Pi...
FINTAL
2006
14 years 3 months ago
Statistical Machine Translation of German Compound Words
Abstract. German compound words pose special problems to statistical machine translation systems: the occurence of each of the components in the training data is not sufficient for...
Maja Popovic, Daniel Stein, Hermann Ney
FINTAL
2006
14 years 3 months ago
Incorporating External Information in Bayesian Classifiers Via Linear Feature Transformations
Naive Bayes classifier is a frequently used method in various natural language processing tasks. Inspired by a modified version of the method called the flexible Bayes classifier, ...
Tapio Pahikkala, Jorma Boberg, Aleksandr Myllä...
FINTAL
2006
14 years 3 months ago
Language Model Mixtures for Contextual Ad Placement in Personal Blogs
Abstract. We introduce a method for content-based advertisement selection for personal blog pages, based on combining multiple representations of the blog. The core idea behind the...
Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke
FINTAL
2006
14 years 3 months ago
Discourse Segmentation of German Written Texts
Abstract. Discourse segmentation is the division of a text into minimal discourse segments, which form the leaves in the trees that are used to represent discourse structures. A de...
Harald Lüngen, Csilla Puskás, Maja B&a...
FINTAL
2006
14 years 3 months ago
Paraphrase Identification on the Basis of Supervised Machine Learning Techniques
Abstract. This paper presents a machine learning approach for paraphrase identification which uses lexical and semantic similarity information. In the experimental studies, we exam...
Zornitsa Kozareva, Andrés Montoyo
FINTAL
2006
14 years 3 months ago
Coordination Structures in a Typed Feature Structure Grammar: Formalization and Implementation
Abstract. Every language employs its own coordination strategies, according to the type of coordinating marking, the pattern of marking, the position of the marker, and the phrase ...
Jong-Bok Kim, Jaehyung Yang