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ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Corpus Effects on the Evaluation of Automated Transliteration Systems
Most current machine transliteration systems employ a corpus of known sourcetarget word pairs to train their system, and typically evaluate their systems on a similar corpus. In t...
Sarvnaz Karimi, Andrew Turpin, Falk Scholer
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Editing in a Back-End Speech-to-Text System
Written documents created through dictation differ significantly from a true verbatim transcript of the recorded speech. This poses an obstacle in automatic dictation systems as s...
Maximilian Bisani, Paul Vozila, Olivier Divay, Jef...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluating Roget's Thesauri
Roget's Thesaurus has gone through many revisions since it was first published 150 years ago. But how do these revisions affect Roget's usefulness for NLP? We examine th...
Alistair Kennedy, Stan Szpakowicz
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
On the formalization of Invariant Mappings for Metaphor Interpretation
In this paper we provide a formalization of a set of default rules that we claim are required for the transfer of information such as causation, event rate and duration in the int...
Rodrigo Agerri, John A. Barnden, Mark G. Lee, Alan...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Part-of-Speech Tagging for Bengali: An Approach for Morphologically Rich Languages in a Poor Resource Scenario
This paper describes our work on building Part-of-Speech (POS) tagger for Bengali. We have use Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Maximum Entropy (ME) based stochastic taggers. Bengali...
Sandipan Dandapat, Sudeshna Sarkar, Anupam Basu
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Task-oriented Evaluation of Syntactic Parsers and Their Representations
This paper presents a comparative evaluation of several state-of-the-art English parsers based on different frameworks. Our approach is to measure the impact of each parser when i...
Yusuke Miyao, Rune Sætre, Kenji Sagae, Takuy...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Kinds of Features for Chinese Opinionated Information Retrieval
This paper presents the results of experiments in which we tested different kinds of features for retrieval of Chinese opinionated texts. We assume that the task of retrieval of o...
Taras Zagibalov
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Forest Reranking: Discriminative Parsing with Non-Local Features
Conventional n-best reranking techniques often suffer from the limited scope of the nbest list, which rules out many potentially good alternatives. We instead propose forest reran...
Liang Huang
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Learning to Rank Answers on Large Online QA Collections
Mihai Surdeanu, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Hugo Zarag...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Re-examination of Machine Learning Approaches for Sentence-Level MT Evaluation
Recent studies suggest that machine learning can be applied to develop good automatic evaluation metrics for machine translated sentences. This paper further analyzes aspects of l...
Joshua Albrecht, Rebecca Hwa