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COLING
2010
13 years 14 days ago
Better Arabic Parsing: Baselines, Evaluations, and Analysis
In this paper, we offer broad insight into the underperformance of Arabic constituency parsing by analyzing the interplay of linguistic phenomena, annotation choices, and model de...
Spence Green, Christopher D. Manning
NAACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
The Web as a Baseline: Evaluating the Performance of Unsupervised Web-based Models for a Range of NLP Tasks
Previous work demonstrated that web counts can be used to approximate bigram frequencies, and thus should be useful for a wide variety of NLP tasks. So far, only two generation ta...
Mirella Lapata, Frank Keller
ACL
2008
13 years 7 months ago
A Critical Reassessment of Evaluation Baselines for Speech Summarization
We assess the current state of the art in speech summarization, by comparing a typical summarizer on two different domains: lecture data and the SWITCHBOARD corpus. Our results ca...
Gerald Penn, Xiaodan Zhu
LREC
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Error Correction for Arabic Dictionary Lookup
We describe a new Arabic spelling correction system which is intended for use with electronic dictionary search by learners of Arabic. Unlike other spelling correction systems, th...
C. Anton Rytting, Paul Rodrigues, Tim Buckwalter, ...
ACL
2011
12 years 9 months ago
Better Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine Translation: Controlling for Optimizer Instability
In statistical machine translation, a researcher seeks to determine whether some innovation (e.g., a new feature, model, or inference algorithm) improves translation quality in co...
Jonathan H. Clark, Chris Dyer, Alon Lavie, Noah A....