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ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Computational Model of Text Reuse in Ancient Literary Texts
We propose a computational model of text reuse tailored for ancient literary texts, available to us often only in small and noisy samples. The model takes into account source alte...
John Lee
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Bootstrapping Word Alignment via Word Packing
We introduce a simple method to pack words for statistical word alignment. Our goal is to simplify the task of automatic word alignment by packing several consecutive words togeth...
Yanjun Ma, Nicolas Stroppa, Andy Way
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
K-best Spanning Tree Parsing
This paper introduces a Maximum Entropy dependency parser based on an efficient kbest Maximum Spanning Tree (MST) algorithm. Although recent work suggests that the edge-factored ...
Keith Hall
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Finding document topics for improving topic segmentation
Topic segmentation and identification are often tackled as separate problems whereas they are both part of topic analysis. In this article, we study how topic identification can...
Olivier Ferret
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Inducing Combinatory Categorial Grammars with Genetic Algorithms
This paper proposes a novel approach to the induction of Combinatory Categorial Grammars (CCGs) by their potential affinity with the Genetic Algorithms (GAs). Specifically, CCGs...
Elias Ponvert
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
NICT-ATR Speech-to-Speech Translation System
This paper describes the latest version of speech-to-speech translation systems developed by the team of NICT-ATR for over twenty years. The system is now ready to be deployed for...
Eiichiro Sumita, Tohru Shimizu, Satoshi Nakamura
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
PageRanking WordNet Synsets: An Application to Opinion Mining
This paper presents an application of PageRank, a random-walk model originally devised for ranking Web search results, to ranking WordNet synsets in terms of how strongly they pos...
Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval
We present an approach to query expansion in answer retrieval that uses Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) techniques to bridge the lexical gap between questions and answers. S...
Stefan Riezler, Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsoch...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Multilingual Transliteration Using Feature based Phonetic Method
In this paper we investigate named entity transliteration based on a phonetic scoring method. The phonetic method is computed using phonetic features and carefully designed pseudo...
Su-Youn Yoon, Kyoung-Young Kim, Richard Sproat