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ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Forest-Based Translation
Among syntax-based translation models, the tree-based approach, which takes as input a parse tree of the source sentence, is a promising direction being faster and simpler than it...
Haitao Mi, Liang Huang, Qun Liu
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation
We address two problems in the field of automatic optimization of dialogue strategies: learning effective dialogue strategies when no initial data or system exists, and evaluating...
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Refining Event Extraction through Cross-Document Inference
We apply the hypothesis of "One Sense Per Discourse" (Yarowsky, 1995) to information extraction (IE), and extend the scope of "discourse" from one single docum...
Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Name Translation in Statistical Machine Translation - Learning When to Transliterate
We present a method to transliterate names in the framework of end-to-end statistical machine translation. The system is trained to learn when to transliterate. For Arabic to Engl...
Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Hal Daumé III
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Feature Hierarchy for Transfer Learning in Named Entity Recognition
We present a novel hierarchical prior structure for supervised transfer learning in named entity recognition, motivated by the common structure of feature spaces for this task acr...
Andrew Arnold, Ramesh Nallapati, William W. Cohen
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Hedge Classification in Biomedical Texts with a Weakly Supervised Selection of Keywords
Since facts or statements in a hedge or negated context typically appear as false positives, the proper handling of these language phenomena is of great importance in biomedical t...
György Szarvas
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Combining Multiple Resources to Improve SMT-based Paraphrasing Model
This paper proposes a novel method that exploits multiple resources to improve statistical machine translation (SMT) based paraphrasing. In detail, a phrasal paraphrase table and ...
Shiqi Zhao, Cheng Niu, Ming Zhou, Ting Liu, Sheng ...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Applying Morphology Generation Models to Machine Translation
We improve the quality of statistical machine translation (SMT) by applying models that predict word forms from their stems using extensive morphological and syntactic information...
Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki, Achim Ruopp
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluating a Crosslinguistic Grammar Resource: A Case Study of Wambaya
This paper evaluates the LinGO Grammar Matrix, a cross-linguistic resource for the development of precision broad coverage grammars, by applying it to the Australian language Wamb...
Emily M. Bender