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ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Using Comparable Corpora to Solve Problems Difficult for Human Translators
In this paper we present a tool that uses comparable corpora to find appropriate translation equivalents for expressions that are considered by translators as difficult. For a phr...
Serge Sharoff, Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Error Mining in Parsing Results
We introduce an error mining technique for automatically detecting errors in resources that are used in parsing systems. We applied this technique on parsing results produced on s...
Benoît Sagot, Eric Villemonte de la Clergeri...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
A Best-First Probabilistic Shift-Reduce Parser
Recently proposed deterministic classifierbased parsers (Nivre and Scholz, 2004; Sagae and Lavie, 2005; Yamada and Matsumoto, 2003) offer attractive alternatives to generative sta...
Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Combination of Arabic Preprocessing Schemes for Statistical Machine Translation
Statistical machine translation is quite robust when it comes to the choice of input representation. It only requires consistency between training and testing. As a result, there ...
Fatiha Sadat, Nizar Habash
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Simultaneous English-Japanese Spoken Language Translation Based on Incremental Dependency Parsing and Transfer
This paper proposes a method for incrementally translating English spoken language into Japanese. To realize simultaneous translation between languages with different word order, ...
Koichiro Ryu, Shigeki Matsubara, Yasuyoshi Inagaki
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Clavius: Bi-Directional Parsing for Generic Multimodal Interaction
We introduce a new multi-threaded parsing algorithm on unification grammars designed specifically for multimodal interaction and noisy environments. By lifting some traditional co...
Frank Rudzicz
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Argumentative Feedback: A Linguistically-Motivated Term Expansion for Information Retrieval
We report on the development of a new automatic feedback model to improve information retrieval in digital libraries. Our hypothesis is that some particular sentences, selected ba...
Patrick Ruch, Imad Tbahriti, Julien Gobeill, Alan ...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Dependencies between Student State and Speech Recognition Problems in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues
Speech recognition problems are a reality in current spoken dialogue systems. In order to better understand these phenomena, we study dependencies between speech recognition probl...
Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
URES : an Unsupervised Web Relation Extraction System
Most information extraction systems either use hand written extraction patterns or use a machine learning algorithm that is trained on a manually annotated corpus. Both of these a...
Binyamin Rosenfeld, Ronen Feldman
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised Topic Modelling for Multi-Party Spoken Discourse
We present a method for unsupervised topic modelling which adapts methods used in document classification (Blei et al., 2003; Griffiths and Steyvers, 2004) to unsegmented multi-pa...
Matthew Purver, Konrad P. Körding, Thomas L. ...