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ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Tailoring Word Alignments to Syntactic Machine Translation
Extracting tree transducer rules for syntactic MT systems can be hindered by word alignment errors that violate syntactic correspondences. We propose a novel model for unsupervise...
John DeNero, Dan Klein
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Coordinate Noun Phrase Disambiguation in a Generative Parsing Model
In this paper we present methods for improving the disambiguation of noun phrase (NP) coordination within the framework of a lexicalised history-based parsing model. As well as re...
Deirdre Hogan
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Much ado about nothing: A social network model of Russian paradigmatic gaps
A number of Russian verbs lack 1sg nonpast forms. These paradigmatic gaps are puzzling because they seemingly contradict the highly productive nature of inflectional systems. We m...
Robert Daland, Andrea D. Sims, Janet Pierrehumbert
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Bayesian Model for Discovering Typological Implications
A standard form of analysis for linguistic typology is the universal implication. These implications state facts about the range of extant languages, such as “if objects come af...
Hal Daumé III, Lyle Campbell
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Coreference Resolution in a Nonparametric Bayesian Model
We present an unsupervised, nonparametric Bayesian approach to coreference resolution which models both global entity identity across a corpus as well as the sequential anaphoric ...
Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Multilingual Subjective Language via Cross-Lingual Projections
This paper explores methods for generating subjectivity analysis resources in a new language by leveraging on the tools and resources available in English. Given a bridge between ...
Rada Mihalcea, Carmen Banea, Janyce Wiebe
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Improving the Interpretation of Noun Phrases with Cross-linguistic Information
This paper addresses the automatic classification of semantic relations in noun phrases based on cross-linguistic evidence from a set of five Romance languages. A set of novel s...
Roxana Girju
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Construction of Domain Dictionary for Fundamental Vocabulary
For natural language understanding, it is essential to reveal semantic relations between words. To date, only the IS-A relation has been publicly available. Toward deeper natural ...
Chikara Hashimoto, Sadao Kurohashi