ACL
2008
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2008
Query expansion is an effective technique to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. Although hand-crafted lexical resources, such as WordNet, could provide more...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This work presents an agenda-based approach to improve the robustness of the dialog manager by using dialog examples and n-best recognition hypotheses. This approach supports n-be...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
The validity of semantic inferences depends on the contexts in which they are applied. We propose a generic framework for handling contextual considerations within applied inferen...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Despite its long history, and a great deal of research producing many useful algorithms and observations, research in cooperative response generation has had little impact on the ...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
In this paper, we propose a novel string-todependency algorithm for statistical machine translation. With this new framework, we employ a target dependency language model during d...
ACL
2008
2008
Using Adaptor Grammars to Identify Synergies in the Unsupervised Acquisition of Linguistic Structure
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Adaptor grammars (Johnson et al., 2007b) are a non-parametric Bayesian extension of Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars (PCFGs) which in effect learn the probabilities of entire s...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper proposes a framework for representing the meaning of phrases and sentences in vector space. Central to our approach is vector composition which we operationalize in ter...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Measure words in Chinese are used to indicate the count of nouns. Conventional statistical machine translation (SMT) systems do not perform well on measure word generation due to ...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
We present a discriminative structureprediction model for the letter-to-phoneme task, a crucial step in text-to-speech processing. Our method encompasses three tasks that have bee...