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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Arabic Mention Detection: Toward Better Unit of Analysis
We investigate in this paper the adequate unit of analysis for Arabic Mention Detection. We experiment different segmentation schemes with various feature-sets. Results show that ...
Yassine Benajiba, Imed Zitouni
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Expected Sequence Similarity Maximization
Cyril Allauzen, Shankar Kumar, Wolfgang Macherey, ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Improved Models of Distortion Cost for Statistical Machine Translation
The distortion cost function used in Mosesstyle machine translation systems has two flaws. First, it does not estimate the future cost of known required moves, thus increasing sea...
Spence Green, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Mannin...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Reformulating Discourse Connectives for Non-Expert Readers
In this paper we report a behavioural experiment documenting that different lexicosyntactic formulations of the discourse relation of causation are deemed more or less acceptable ...
Advaith Siddharthan, Napoleon Katsos
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Using Gaussian Mixture Models to Detect Figurative Language in Context
We present a Gaussian Mixture model for detecting different types of figurative language in context. We show that this model performs well when the parameters are estimated in an ...
Linlin Li, Caroline Sporleder
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Learning to Link Entities with Knowledge Base
This paper address the problem of entity linking. Specifically, given an entity mentioned in unstructured texts, the task is to link this entity with an entry stored in the existi...
Zhicheng Zheng, Fangtao Li, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
An extractive supervised two-stage method for sentence compression
We present a new method that compresses sentences by removing words. In a first stage, it generates candidate compressions by removing branches from the source sentence's dep...
Dimitrios Galanis, Ion Androutsopoulos
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
An Exploration of Off Topic Conversation
In a corpus of expert tutoring dialogue, conversation that is considered to be "off topic" (non-pedagogical) according to a previous coding scheme is explored for its va...
Whitney L. Cade, Blair Lehman, Andrew Olney
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Discriminative Learning over Constrained Latent Representations
This paper proposes a general learning framework for a class of problems that require learning over latent intermediate representations. Many natural language processing (NLP) dec...
Ming-Wei Chang, Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth, Vivek Sr...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Two monolingual parses are better than one (synchronous parse)
We describe a synchronous parsing algorithm that is based on two successive monolingual parses of an input sentence pair. Although the worst-case complexity of this algorithm is a...
Chris Dyer