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ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging Employing Efficient Graph Clustering
An unsupervised part-of-speech (POS) tagging system that relies on graph clustering methods is described. Unlike in current state-of-the-art approaches, the kind and number of dif...
Chris Biemann
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Bootstrapping Path-Based Pronoun Resolution
We present an approach to pronoun resolution based on syntactic paths. Through a simple bootstrapping procedure, we learn the likelihood of coreference between a pronoun and a can...
Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
A Rote Extractor with Edit Distance-Based Generalisation and Multi-Corpora Precision Calculation
In this paper, we describe a rote extractor that learns patterns for finding semantic relationships in unrestricted text, with new procedures for pattern generalization and scorin...
Enrique Alfonseca, Pablo Castells, Manabu Okumura,...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Using Machine Learning Techniques to Build a Comma Checker for Basque
In this paper, we describe the research using machine learning techniques to build a comma checker to be integrated in a grammar checker for Basque. After several experiments, and...
Iñaki Alegria, Bertol Arrieta, Arantza D&ia...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Distortion Models for Statistical Machine Translation
In this paper, we argue that n-gram language models are not sufficient to address word reordering required for Machine Translation. We propose a new distortion model that can be u...
Yaser Al-Onaizan, Kishore Papineni
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Archivus: A Multimodal System for Multimedia Meeting Browsing and Retrieval
This paper presents Archivus, a multimodal language-enabled meeting browsing and retrieval system. The prototype is in an early stage of development, and we are currently explorin...
Marita Ailomaa, Miroslav Melichar, Agnes Lisowska,...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
An Unsupervised Morpheme-Based HMM for Hebrew Morphological Disambiguation
Morphological disambiguation is the process of assigning one set of morphological features to each individual word in a text. When the word is ambiguous (there are several possibl...
Meni Adler, Michael Elhadad
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Japanese Dependency Parsing Using Co-Occurrence Information and a Combination of Case Elements
In this paper, we present a method that improves Japanese dependency parsing by using large-scale statistical information. It takes into account two kinds of information not consi...
Takeshi Abekawa, Manabu Okumura
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
A Bootstrapping Approach to Unsupervised Detection of Cue Phrase Variants
We investigate the unsupervised detection of semi-fixed cue phrases such as "This paper proposes a novel approach. . . 1" from unseen text, on the basis of only a handfu...
Rashid M. Abdalla, Simone Teufel