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ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Improved Source-Channel Models for Chinese Word Segmentation
This paper presents a Chinese word segmentation system that uses improved sourcechannel models of Chinese sentence generation. Chinese words are defined as one of the following fo...
Jianfeng Gao, Mu Li, Changning Huang
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation
We present a domain-independent topic segmentation algorithm for multi-party speech. Our feature-based algorithm combines knowledge about content using a text-based algorithm as a...
Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown, Eric Fosler-Lussi...
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Integrated Shallow and Deep Parsing: TopP Meets HPSG
We present a novel, data-driven method for integrated shallow and deep parsing. Mediated by an XML-based multi-layer annotation architecture, we interleave a robust, but accurate ...
Anette Frank, Markus Becker, Berthold Crysmann, Be...
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Offline Strategies for Online Question Answering: Answering Questions Before They Are Asked
Recent work in Question Answering has focused on web-based systems that extract answers using simple lexicosyntactic patterns. We present an alternative strategy in which patterns...
Michael Fleischman, Eduard H. Hovy, Abdessamad Ech...
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Optimizing Story Link Detection is not Equivalent to Optimizing New Event Detection
Link detection has been regarded as a core technology for the Topic Detection and Tracking tasks of new event detection. In this paper we formulate story link detection and new ev...
Ayman Farahat, Francine Chen, Thorsten Brants
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
A Noisy-Channel Approach to Question Answering
We introduce a probabilistic noisychannel model for question answering and we show how it can be exploited in the context of an end-to-end QA system. Our noisy-channel system outp...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Daniel Marcu
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic Parsing for German Using Sister-Head Dependencies
We present a probabilistic parsing model for German trained on the Negra treebank. We observe that existing lexicalized parsing models using head-head dependencies, while successf...
Amit Dubey, Frank Keller
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Deep Syntactic Processing by Combining Shallow Methods
We present a novel approach for finding discontinuities that outperforms previously published results on this task. Rather than using a deeper grammar formalism, our system combi...
Péter Dienes, Amit Dubey
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Segmentation of Words Using Prior Distributions of Morph Length and Frequency
We present a language-independent and unsupervised algorithm for the segmentation of words into morphs. The algorithm is based on a new generative probabilistic model, which makes...
Mathias Creutz
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Generating Parallel Multilingual LFG-TAG Grammars from a MetaGrammar
We introduce a MetaGrammar, which allows us to automatically generate, from a single and compact MetaGrammar hierarchy, parallel Lexical Functional Grammars (LFG) and Tree-Adjoini...
Lionel Clément, Alexandra Kinyon