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NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Diacritization for Low-Resource Languages Using a Hybrid Word and Consonant CMM
We are interested in diacritizing Semitic languages, especially Syriac, using only diacritized texts. Previous methods have required the use of tools such as part-of-speech tagger...
Robbie Haertel, Peter McClanahan, Eric K. Ringger
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Reranking the Berkeley and Brown Parsers
The Brown and the Berkeley parsers are two state-of-the-art generative parsers. Since both parsers produce n-best lists, it is possible to apply reranking techniques to the output...
Mark Johnson, Ahmet Engin Ural
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Training Paradigms for Correcting Errors in Grammar and Usage
This paper proposes a novel approach to the problem of training classifiers to detect and correct grammar and usage errors in text by selectively introducing mistakes into the tra...
Alla Rozovskaya, Dan Roth
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
A Simple Approach for HPSG Supertagging Using Dependency Information
In a supertagging task, sequence labeling models are commonly used. But their limited ability to model long-distance information presents a bottleneck to make further improvements...
Yao-zhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun-ichi Tsujii
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Improving Blog Polarity Classification via Topic Analysis and Adaptive Methods
In this paper we examine different linguistic features for sentimental polarity classification, and perform a comparative study on this task between blog and review data. We found...
Feifan Liu, Dong Wang, Bin Li, Yang Liu
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Type-Based MCMC
Percy Liang, Michael I. Jordan, Dan Klein
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Learning Translation Boundaries for Phrase-Based Decoding
Constrained decoding is of great importance not only for speed but also for translation quality. Previous efforts explore soft syntactic constraints which are based on constituent...
Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Ensemble Models for Dependency Parsing: Cheap and Good?
Previous work on dependency parsing used various kinds of combination models but a systematic analysis and comparison of these approaches is lacking. In this paper we implemented ...
Mihai Surdeanu, Christopher D. Manning
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Everybody loves a rich cousin: An empirical study of transliteration through bridge languages
Most state of the art approaches for machine transliteration are data driven and require significant parallel names corpora between languages. As a result, developing transliterat...
Mitesh M. Khapra, A. Kumaran, Pushpak Bhattacharyy...
NAACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Generalizing Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation using Rules with Adjacent Nonterminals
Hierarchical phrase-based translation (Hiero, (Chiang, 2005)) provides an attractive framework within which both short- and longdistance reorderings can be addressed consistently ...
Hendra Setiawan, Philip Resnik