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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
"cba to check the spelling": Investigating Parser Performance on Discussion Forum Posts
We evaluate the Berkeley parser on text from an online discussion forum. We evaluate the parser output with and without gold tokens and spellings (using Sparseval and Parseval), a...
Jennifer Foster
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Engaging learning groups using Social Interaction Strategies
Conversational Agents have been shown to be effective tutors in a wide range of educational domains. However, these agents are often ignored and abused in collaborative learning s...
Rohit Kumar, Carolyn Penstein Rosé
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Is Arabic Part of Speech Tagging Feasible Without Word Segmentation?
In this paper, we compare two novel methods for part of speech tagging of Arabic without the use of gold standard word segmentation but with the full POS tagset of the Penn Arabic...
Emad Mohamed, Sandra Kübler
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Enabling Monolingual Translators: Post-Editing vs. Options
We carried out a study on monolingual translators with no knowledge of the source language, but aided by post-editing and the display of translation options. On Arabic-English and...
Philipp Koehn
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Statistical Machine Translation of Texts with Misspelled Words
This paper investigates the impact of misspelled words in statistical machine translation and proposes an extension of the translation engine for handling misspellings. The enhanc...
Nicola Bertoldi, Mauro Cettolo, Marcello Federico
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Dense Models of Query Similarity from User Click Logs
The goal of this work is to integrate query similarity metrics as features into a dense model that can be trained on large amounts of query log data, in order to rank query rewrit...
Fabio De Bona, Stefan Riezler, Keith Hall, Massimi...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Summarizing Microblogs Automatically
In this paper, we focus on a recent Web trend called microblogging, and in particular a site called Twitter. The content of such a site is an extraordinarily large number of small...
Beaux Sharifi, Mark-Anthony Hutton, Jugal K. Kalit...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
The Best Lexical Metric for Phrase-Based Statistical MT System Optimization
Translation systems are generally trained to optimize BLEU, but many alternative metrics are available. We explore how optimizing toward various automatic evaluation metrics (BLEU...
Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning, Daniel Jurafsk...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Can Recognising Multiword Expressions Improve Shallow Parsing?
There is significant evidence in the literature that integrating knowledge about multiword expressions can improve shallow parsing accuracy. We present an experimental study to qu...
Ioannis Korkontzelos, Suresh Manandhar
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Online Learning for Interactive Statistical Machine Translation
State-of-the-art Machine Translation (MT) systems are still far from being perfect. An alternative is the so-called Interactive Machine Translation (IMT) framework. In this framew...
Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Ismael García...