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NAACL
2004
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2004
We demonstrate a new research approach to the problem of predicting the reading difficulty of a text passage, by recasting readability in terms of statistical language modeling. W...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
We present an empirically grounded method for evaluating content selection in summarization. It incorporates the idea that no single best model summary for a collection of documen...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
We propose a theory that gives formal semantics to word-level alignments defined over parallel corpora. We use our theory to introduce a linear algorithm that can be used to deriv...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
In this paper, we will compare and evaluate the effectiveness of different statistical methods in the task of cross-document coreference resolution. We created entity models for d...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
Maximum entropy models are a common modeling technique, but prone to overfitting. We show that using an exponential distribution as a prior leads to bounded absolute discounting b...