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ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
SVM Model Tampering and Anchored Learning: A Case Study in Hebrew NP Chunking
We study the issue of porting a known NLP method to a language with little existing NLP resources, specifically Hebrew SVM-based chunking. We introduce two SVM-based methods – ...
Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Classifying Temporal Relations Between Events
This paper describes a fully automatic twostage machine learning architecture that learns temporal relations between pairs of events. The first stage learns the temporal attribut...
Nathanael Chambers, Shan Wang, Daniel Jurafsky
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue
Even in a massive corpus such as the Web, a substantial fraction of extractions appear infrequently. This paper shows how to assess the correctness of sparse extractions by utiliz...
Doug Downey, Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Assisting Translators in Indirect Lexical Transfer
We present the design and evaluation of a translator’s amenuensis that uses comparable corpora to propose and rank nonliteral solutions to the translation of expressions from th...
Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley, Serge Sharoff, Olg...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation
When a word sense disambiguation (WSD) system is trained on one domain but applied to a different domain, a drop in accuracy is frequently observed. This highlights the importance...
Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Formalism-Independent Parser Evaluation with CCG and DepBank
A key question facing the parsing community is how to compare parsers which use different grammar formalisms and produce different output. Evaluating a parser on the same resource...
Stephen Clark, James R. Curran
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Forest-to-String Statistical Translation Rules
In this paper, we propose forest-to-string rules to enhance the expressive power of tree-to-string translation models. A forestto-string rule is capable of capturing nonsyntactic ...
Yang Liu, Yun Huang, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A discriminative language model with pseudo-negative samples
In this paper, we propose a novel discriminative language model, which can be applied quite generally. Compared to the well known N-gram language models, discriminative language m...
Daisuke Okanohara, Jun-ichi Tsujii
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Conditional Modality Fusion for Coreference Resolution
Non-verbal modalities such as gesture can improve processing of spontaneous spoken language. For example, similar hand gestures tend to predict semantic similarity, so features th...
Jacob Eisenstein, Randall Davis
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Predictive Structures for Semantic Role Labeling of NomBank
This paper presents a novel application of Alternating Structure Optimization (ASO) to the task of Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) of noun predicates in NomBank. ASO is a recently pr...
Chang Liu, Hwee Tou Ng