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NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Syntax-based Alignment of Multiple Translations: Extracting Paraphrases and Generating New Sentences
We describe a syntax-based algorithm that automatically builds Finite State Automata (word lattices) from semantically equivalent translation sets. These FSAs are good representat...
Bo Pang, Kevin Knight, Daniel Marcu
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Desparately Seeking Cebuano
This paper describes an effort to rapidly develop language resources and component technology to support searching Cebuano news stories using English queries. Results from the fi...
Douglas W. Oard, David S. Doermann, Bonnie J. Dorr...
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
JAVELIN: A Flexible, Planner-Based Architecture for Question Answering
The JAVELIN system integrates a flexible, planning-based architecture with a variety of language processing modules to provide an open-domain question answering capability on fre...
Eric Nyberg, Robert E. Frederking
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Greedy Decoding for Statistical Machine Translation in Almost Linear Time
We present improvements to a greedy decoding algorithm for statistical machine translation that reduce its time complexity from at least cubic (  ¢¡¤£¦¥¨§ when applied na...
Ulrich Germann
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Bootstrapping for Named Entity Tagging Using Concept-based Seeds
Cheng Niu, Wei Li 0003, Jihong Ding, Rohini K. Sri...
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
A Maximum Entropy Approach to FrameNet Tagging
The development of FrameNet, a large database of semantically annotated sentences, has primed research into statistical methods for semantic tagging. We advance previous work by a...
Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Weakly Supervised Natural Language Learning Without Redundant Views
We investigate single-view algorithms as an alternative to multi-view algorithms for weakly supervised learning for natural language processing tasks without a natural feature spl...
Vincent Ng, Claire Cardie
NAACL
2003
13 years 8 months ago
Cooperative model-based language understanding
In this paper, we propose a novel Cooperative Model for natural language understanding in a dialogue system. We build this based on both Finite State Model (FSM) and Statistical L...
Donghui Feng