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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Left-to-Right Target Generation for Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation
We present a hierarchical phrase-based statistical machine translation in which a target sentence is efficiently generated in left-to-right order. The model is a class of synchron...
Taro Watanabe, Hajime Tsukada, Hideki Isozaki
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Sinhala Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion and Rules for Schwa Epenthesis
This paper describes an architecture to convert Sinhala Unicode text into phonemic specification of pronunciation. The study was mainly focused on disambiguating schwa-/\/ and /a/...
Asanka Wasala, Ruvan Weerasinghe, Kumudu Gamage
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Word Alignment for Languages with Scarce Resources Using Bilingual Corpora of Other Language Pairs
This paper proposes an approach to improve word alignment for languages with scarce resources using bilingual corpora of other language pairs. To perform word alignment between la...
Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Zhan-yi Liu
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Fast, Accurate Deterministic Parser for Chinese
We present a novel classifier-based deterministic parser for Chinese constituency parsing. Our parser computes parse trees from bottom up in one pass, and uses classifiers to make...
Mengqiu Wang, Kenji Sagae, Teruko Mitamura
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Combining Statistical and Knowledge-Based Spoken Language Understanding in Conditional Models
Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) addresses the problem of extracting semantic meaning conveyed in an utterance. The traditional knowledge-based approach to this problem is very...
Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Acero, Milind Mahajan, John Lee
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Word Vectors and Two Kinds of Similarity
This paper examines what kind of similarity between words can be represented by what kind of word vectors in the vector space model. Through two experiments, three methods for con...
Akira Utsumi, Daisuke Suzuki
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Trimming CFG Parse Trees for Sentence Compression Using Machine Learning Approaches
Sentence compression is a task of creating a short grammatical sentence by removing extraneous words or phrases from an original sentence while preserving its meaning. Existing me...
Yuya Unno, Takashi Ninomiya, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-ich...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Advances in Discriminative Parsing
The present work advances the accuracy and training speed of discriminative parsing. Our discriminative parsing method has no generative component, yet surpasses a generative base...
Joseph P. Turian, I. Dan Melamed
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Integrated Morphological and Syntactic Disambiguation for Modern Hebrew
Current parsing models are not immediately applicable for languages that exhibit strong interaction between morphology and syntax, e.g., Modern Hebrew (MH), Arabic and other Semit...
Reut Tsarfaty