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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Pipeline Framework for Dependency Parsing
Pipeline computation, in which a task is decomposed into several stages that are solved sequentially, is a common computational strategy in natural language processing. The key pr...
Ming-Wei Chang, Quang Do, Dan Roth
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Estimating Class Priors in Domain Adaptation for Word Sense Disambiguation
Instances of a word drawn from different domains may have different sense priors (the proportions of the different senses of a word). This in turn affects the accuracy of word sen...
Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Towards Conversational QA: Automatic Identification of Problematic Situations and User Intent
To enable conversational QA, it is important to examine key issues addressed in conversational systems in the context of question answering. In conversational systems, understandi...
Joyce Y. Chai, Chen Zhang, Tyler Baldwin
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Morphology-Syntax Interface for Turkish LFG
This paper investigates the use of sublexical units as a solution to handling the complex morphology with productive derivational processes, in the development of a lexical functi...
Özlem Çetinoglu, Kemal Oflazer
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
N Semantic Classes are Harder than Two
We show that we can automatically classify semantically related phrases into 10 classes. Classification robustness is improved by training with multiple sources of evidence, inclu...
Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones, Wiley Greiner, Cory B...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Ensemble Methods for Unsupervised WSD
Samuel Brody, Roberto Navigli, Mirella Lapata
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Correcting ESL Errors Using Phrasal SMT Techniques
This paper presents a pilot study of the use of phrasal Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to identify and correct writing errors made by learners of English as a Se...
Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan, Michael Gamon
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
The Second Release of the RASP System
We describe the new release of the RASP (robust accurate statistical parsing) system, designed for syntactic annotation of free text. The new version includes a revised and more s...
Ted Briscoe, John Carroll, Rebecca Watson
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluating the Accuracy of an Unlexicalized Statistical Parser on the PARC DepBank
We evaluate the accuracy of an unlexicalized statistical parser, trained on 4K treebanked sentences from balanced data and tested on the PARC DepBank. We demonstrate that a parser...
Ted Briscoe, John Carroll