ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Standard approaches to Chinese word segmentation treat the problem as a tagging task, assigning labels to the characters in the sequence indicating whether the character marks a w...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
We propose a new, simple model for the automatic induction of selectional preferences, using corpus-based semantic similarity metrics. Focusing on the task of semantic role labeli...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Data sparseness is one of the factors that degrade statistical machine translation (SMT). Existing work has shown that using morphosyntactic information is an effective solution t...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
We present a user requirements study for Question Answering on meeting records that assesses the difficulty of users questions in terms of what type of knowledge is required in or...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
We examine the problem of choosing word order for a set of dependency trees so as to minimize total dependency length. We present an algorithm for computing the optimal layout of ...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
There is little consensus on a standard experimental design for the compound interpretation task. This paper introduces wellmotivated general desiderata for semantic annotation sc...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
We present a novel method for predicting inflected word forms for generating morphologically rich languages in machine translation. We utilize a rich set of syntactic and morphol...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
We present an implemented system for the resolution of it, this, and that in transcribed multi-party dialog. The system handles NP-anaphoric as well as discoursedeictic anaphors, ...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Identification of transliterated names is a particularly difficult task of Named Entity Recognition (NER), especially in the Chinese context. Of all possible variations of trans...