ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
This paper presents an unsupervised learning approach to building a non-English (Arabic) stemmer. The stemming model is based on statistical machine translation and it uses an Eng...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
We present a large-scale meta evaluation of eight evaluation measures for both single-document and multi-document summarizers. To this end we built a corpus consisting of (a) 100 ...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
This paper presents a new bottom-up chart parsing algorithm for Prolog along with a compilation procedure that reduces the amount of copying at run-time to a constant number (2) p...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
This paper proposes a hybrid of handcrafted rules and a machine learning method for chunking Korean. In the partially free word-order languages such as Korean and Japanese, a smal...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
Traditional vector-based models use word co-occurrence counts from large corpora to represent lexical meaning. In this paper we present a novel approach for constructing semantic ...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
We investigate the verbal and nonverbal means for grounding, and propose a design for embodied conversational agents that relies on both kinds of signals to establish common groun...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
Often, the training procedure for statistical machine translation models is based on maximum likelihood or related criteria. A general problem of this approach is that there is on...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
We present a supervised machine learning algorithm for metonymy resolution, which exploits the similarity between examples of conventional metonymy. We show that syntactic head-mo...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
A central problem of word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the lack of manually sense-tagged data required for supervised learning. In this paper, we evaluate an approach to automati...