ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
This paper describes discriminative language modeling for a large vocabulary speech recognition task. We contrast two parameter estimation methods: the perceptron algorithm, and a...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
We use machine learning techniques to find the best combination of local focus and lexical distance features for identifying the anchor of mereological bridging references. We fin...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the balance between clarity and efficiency in HPSG design, with particular reference to the design decisions made in the English Resourc...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
This paper describes and evaluates MOP, an IE system for automatic extraction of metalinguistic information from technical and scientific documents. We claim that such a system ca...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
Sentiment analysis seeks to identify the viewpoint(s) underlying a text span; an example application is classifying a movie review as "thumbs up" or "thumbs down&qu...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
We discuss existing approaches to train LR parsers, which have been used for statistical resolution of structural ambiguity. These approaches are nonoptimal, in the sense that a c...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
We present new results on the relation between context-free parsing strategies and their probabilistic counter-parts. We provide a necessary condition and a sufficient condition f...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
In this paper we present a methodology for extracting subcategorisation frames based on an automatic LFG f-structure annotation algorithm Penn-II Treebank. We extract abstract syn...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
Parsing systems which rely on hand-coded linguistic descriptions can only perform adequately in as far as these descriptions are correct and complete. The paper describes an error...
ACL
2004
13 years 7 months ago
2004
The paper describes a particular approach to multiengine machine translation (MEMT), where we make use of voted language models to selectively combine translation outputs from mul...