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ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Annotation Schemes and their Influence on Parsing Results
Most of the work on treebank-based statistical parsing exclusively uses the WallStreet-Journal part of the Penn treebank for evaluation purposes. Due to the presence of this quasi...
Wolfgang Maier
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
An Iterative Implicit Feedback Approach to Personalized Search
General information retrieval systems are designed to serve all users without considering individual needs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to personalized search. It c...
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wa...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
An Equivalent Pseudoword Solution to Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation
This paper presents a new approach based on Equivalent Pseudowords (EPs) to tackle Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) in Chinese language. EPs are particular artificial ambiguous wor...
Zhimao Lu, Haifeng Wang, Jianmin Yao, Ting Liu, Sh...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
On2L - A Framework for Incremental Ontology Learning in Spoken Dialog Systems
An open-domain spoken dialog system has to deal with the challenge of lacking lexical as well as conceptual knowledge. As the real world is constantly changing, it is not possible...
Berenike Loos
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Re-Usable Tools for Precision Machine Translation
The LOGON MT demonstrator assembles independently valuable general-purpose NLP components into a machine translation pipeline that capitalizes on output quality. The demonstrator ...
Jan Tore Lønning, Stephan Oepen
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Discriminating Image Senses by Clustering with Multimodal Features
We discuss Image Sense Discrimination (ISD), and apply a method based on spectral clustering, using multimodal features from the image and text of the embedding web page. We evalu...
Nicolas Loeff, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, David A. Fo...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Reranking and Self-Training for Parser Adaptation
Statistical parsers trained and tested on the Penn Wall Street Journal (WSJ) treebank have shown vast improvements over the last 10 years. Much of this improvement, however, is ba...
David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Tree-to-String Alignment Template for Statistical Machine Translation
We present a novel translation model based on tree-to-string alignment template (TAT) which describes the alignment between a source parse tree and a target string. A TAT is capab...
Yang Liu, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
An Intermediate Representation for the Interpretation of Temporal Expressions
The interpretation of temporal expressions in text is an important constituent task for many practical natural language processing tasks, including question-answering, information...
Pawel P. Mazur, Robert Dale
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Stochastic Iterative Alignment for Machine Translation Evaluation
A number of metrics for automatic evaluation of machine translation have been proposed in recent years, with some metrics focusing on measuring the adequacy of MT output, and othe...
Ding Liu, Daniel Gildea