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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Accurate Collocation Extraction Using a Multilingual Parser
This paper focuses on the use of advanced techniques of text analysis as support for collocation extraction. A hybrid system is presented that combines statistical methods and mul...
Violeta Seretan, Eric Wehrli
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Multilingual Legal Terminology on the Jibiki Platform: The LexALP Project
This paper presents the particular use of "Jibiki" (Papillon's web server development platform) for the LexALP1 project. LexALP's goal is to harmonise the term...
Gilles Sérasset, Francis Brunet-Manquat, El...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Hybrid Relational Approach for WSD - First Results
We present a novel hybrid approach for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) which makes use of a relational formalism to represent instances and background knowledge. It is built using...
Lucia Specia
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Discourse Generation Using Utility-Trained Coherence Models
We describe a generic framework for integrating various stochastic models of discourse coherence in a manner that takes advantage of their individual strengths. An integral part o...
Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
On-Demand Information Extraction
At present, adapting an Information Extraction system to new topics is an expensive and slow process, requiring some knowledge engineering for each new topic. We propose a new par...
Satoshi Sekine
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Continuous Space Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Holger Schwenk, Daniel Dechelotte, Jean-Luc Gauvai...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
K-QARD: A Practical Korean Question Answering Framework for Restricted Domain
We present a Korean question answering framework for restricted domains, called K-QARD. K-QARD is developed to achieve domain portability and robustness, and the framework is succ...
Young-In Song, Hoo-Jung Chung, Kyoung-Soo Han, Joo...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogenous Evidence
We propose a novel algorithm for inducing semantic taxonomies. Previous algorithms for taxonomy induction have typically focused on independent classifiers for discovering new sin...
Rion Snow, Daniel Jurafsky, Andrew Y. Ng
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes Using Syntactic Frames and LSA
We exploit the resources in the Arabic Treebank (ATB) and Arabic Gigaword (AG) to determine the best features for the novel task of automatically creating lexical semantic verb cl...
Neal Snider, Mona T. Diab
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Minimum Risk Annealing for Training Log-Linear Models
When training the parameters for a natural language system, one would prefer to minimize 1-best loss (error) on an evaluation set. Since the error surface for many natural languag...
David A. Smith, Jason Eisner