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ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Closing the Gap: Learning-Based Information Extraction Rivaling Knowledge-Engineering Methods
In this paper, we present a learning approach to the scenario template task of information extraction, where information filling one template could come from multiple sentences. ...
Hai Leong Chieu, Hwee Tou Ng, Yoong Keok Lee
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
A Probability Model to Improve Word Alignment
Word alignment plays a crucial role in statistical machine translation. Word-aligned corpora have been found to be an excellent source of translation-related knowledge. We present...
Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Uncertainty Reduction in Collaborative Bootstrapping: Measure and Algorithm
This paper proposes the use of uncertainty reduction in machine learning methods such as co-training and bilingual bootstrapping, which are referred to, in a general term, as ‘c...
Yunbo Cao, Hang Li, Li Lian
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Integrating Discourse Markers into a Pipelined Natural Language Generation Architecture
Pipelined Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems have grown increasingly complex as architectural modules were added to support language functionalities such as referring expre...
Charles B. Callaway
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Learning the Countability of English Nouns from Corpus Data
This paper describes a method for learning the countability preferences of English nouns from raw text corpora. The method maps the corpus-attested lexico-syntactic properties of ...
Timothy Baldwin, Francis Bond
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Generalized Algorithms for Constructing Statistical Language Models
Recent text and speech processing applications such as speech mining raise new and more general problems related to the construction of language models. We present and describe in...
Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri, Brian Roark