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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Using Word Support Model to Improve Chinese Input System
This paper presents a word support model (WSM). The WSM can effectively perform homophone selection and syllable-word segmentation to improve Chinese input systems. The experiment...
Jia-Lin Tsai
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Statistical Phrase-Based Models for Interactive Computer-Assisted Translation
Obtaining high-quality machine translations is still a long way off. A postediting phase is required to improve the output of a machine translation system. An alternative is the s...
Jesús Tomás, Francisco Casacuberta
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Infrastructure for Standardization of Asian Language Resources
As an area of great linguistic and cultural diversity, Asian language resources have received much less attention than their western counterparts. Creating a common standard for A...
Takenobu Tokunaga, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thats...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Discriminative Global Training Algorithm for Statistical MT
This paper presents a novel training algorithm for a linearly-scored block sequence translation model. The key component is a new procedure to directly optimize the global scoring...
Christoph Tillmann, Tong Zhang
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Logic-Based Semantic Approach to Recognizing Textual Entailment
This paper proposes a knowledge representation model and a logic proving setting with axioms on demand successfully used for recognizing textual entailments. It also details a lex...
Marta Tatu, Dan I. Moldovan
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Modelling Lexical Redundancy for Machine Translation
Certain distinctions made in the lexicon of one language may be redundant when translating into another language. We quantify redundancy among source types by the similarity of th...
David Talbot, Miles Osborne
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Alternative Parse Tree Paths for Labeling Semantic Roles
The integration of sophisticated inference-based techniques into natural language processing applications first requires a reliable method of encoding the predicate-argument struc...
Reid Swanson, Andrew S. Gordon
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Learning to Predict Case Markers in Japanese
Japanese case markers, which indicate the grammatical relation of the complement NP to the predicate, often pose challenges to the generation of Japanese text, be it done by a for...
Hisami Suzuki, Kristina Toutanova
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Training Conditional Random Fields with Multivariate Evaluation Measures
This paper proposes a framework for training Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) to optimize multivariate evaluation measures, including non-linear measures such as F-score. Our prop...
Jun Suzuki, Erik McDermott, Hideki Isozaki
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Named Entity Transliteration with Comparable Corpora
In this paper we investigate ChineseEnglish name transliteration using comparable corpora, corpora where texts in the two languages deal in some of the same topics -- and therefor...
Richard Sproat, Tao Tao, ChengXiang Zhai