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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Annealing Structural Bias in Multilingual Weighted Grammar Induction
We first show how a structural locality bias can improve the accuracy of state-of-the-art dependency grammar induction models trained by EM from unannotated examples (Klein and Ma...
Noah A. Smith, Jason Eisner
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Trace Prediction and Recovery with Unlexicalized PCFGs and Slash Features
This paper describes a parser which generates parse trees with empty elements in which traces and fillers are co-indexed. The parser is an unlexicalized PCFG parser which is guara...
Helmut Schmid
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Morphological Richness Offsets Resource Demand - Experiences in Constructing a POS Tagger for Hindi
In this paper we report our work on building a POS tagger for a morphologically rich language- Hindi. The theme of the research is to vindicate the stand that- if morphology is st...
Smriti Singh, Kuhoo Gupta, Manish Shrivastava, Pus...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Compiling a Lexicon of Cooking Actions for Animation Generation
This paper describes a system which generates animations for cooking actions in recipes, to help people understand recipes written in Japanese. The major goal of this research is ...
Kiyoaki Shirai, Hiroshi Ookawa
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Translating HPSG-Style Outputs of a Robust Parser into Typed Dynamic Logic
The present paper proposes a method by which to translate outputs of a robust HPSG parser into semantic representations of Typed Dynamic Logic (TDL), a dynamic plural semantics de...
Manabu Sato, Daisuke Bekki, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-ichi...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Exact Decoding for Jointly Labeling and Chunking Sequences
There are two decoding algorithms essential to the area of natural language processing. One is the Viterbi algorithm for linear-chain models, such as HMMs or CRFs. The other is th...
Nobuyuki Shimizu, Andrew R. Haas
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Discourse Segmentation and Labeling for Route Instructions
In order to build a simulated robot that accepts instructions in unconstrained natural language, a corpus of 427 route instructions was collected from human subjects in the office...
Nobuyuki Shimizu
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A DOM Tree Alignment Model for Mining Parallel Data from the Web
This paper presents a new web mining scheme for parallel data acquisition. Based on the Document Object Model (DOM), a web page is represented as a DOM tree. Then a DOM tree align...
Lei Shi, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Jianfeng Gao
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Implementing a Characterization of Genre for Automatic Genre Identification of Web Pages
In this paper, we propose an implementable characterization of genre suitable for automatic genre identification of web pages. This characterization is implemented as an inferenti...
Marina Santini, Richard Power, Roger Evans
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Exploring Correlation of Dependency Relation Paths for Answer Extraction
In this paper, we explore correlation of dependency relation paths to rank candidate answers in answer extraction. Using the correlation measure, we compare dependency relations o...
Dan Shen, Dietrich Klakow