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ACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Improvement of a Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Model Using Grammatical Features
In this paper, we propose adding long-term grammatical information in a Whole Sentence Maximun Entropy Language Model (WSME) in order to improve the performance of the model. The ...
Fredy A. Amaya, José-Miguel Benedí
ACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Extracting Paraphrases from a Parallel Corpus
While paraphrasing is critical both for interpretation and generation of natural language, current systems use manual or semi-automatic methods to collect paraphrases. We present ...
Regina Barzilay, Kathleen McKeown
ACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Guided Parsing of Range Concatenation Languages
The theoretical study of the range concatenation grammar [RCG] formalism has revealed many attractive properties which may be used in NLP. In particular, range concatenation langu...
François Barthélemy, Pierre Boullier...
ACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluation Tool for Rule-based Anaphora Resolution Methods
In this paper we argue that comparative evaluation in anaphora resolution has to be performed using the same pre-processing tools and on the same set of data. The paper proposes a...
Catalina Barbu, Ruslan Mitkov
ACL
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Scaling to Very Very Large Corpora for Natural Language Disambiguation
The amount of readily available on-line text has reached hundreds of billions of words and continues to grow. Yet for most core natural language tasks, algorithms continue to be o...
Michele Banko, Eric Brill