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ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Sentence Simplification for Semantic Role Labeling
Parse-tree paths are commonly used to incorporate information from syntactic parses into NLP systems. These systems typically treat the paths as atomic (or nearly atomic) features...
David Vickrey, Daphne Koller
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Regular Tree Grammars as a Formalism for Scope Underspecification
We propose the use of regular tree grammars (RTGs) as a formalism for the underspecified processing of scope ambiguities. By applying standard results on RTGs, we obtain a novel a...
Alexander Koller, Michaela Regneri, Stefan Thater
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Soft Syntactic Constraints for Hierarchical Phrased-Based Translation
In adding syntax to statistical MT, there is a tradeoff between taking advantage of linguistic analysis, versus allowing the model to exploit linguistically unmotivated mappings l...
Yuval Marton, Philip Resnik
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
MAXSIM: A Maximum Similarity Metric for Machine Translation Evaluation
We propose an automatic machine translation (MT) evaluation metric that calculates a similarity score (based on precision and recall) of a pair of sentences. Unlike most metrics, ...
Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Word Clustering and Word Selection Based Feature Reduction for MaxEnt Based Hindi NER
Statistical machine learning methods are employed to train a Named Entity Recognizer from annotated data. Methods like Maximum Entropy and Conditional Random Fields make use of fe...
Sujan Kumar Saha, Pabitra Mitra, Sudeshna Sarkar
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Bigrams from Unigrams
Traditional wisdom holds that once documents are turned into bag-of-words (unigram count) vectors, word orders are completely lost. We introduce an approach that, perhaps surprisi...
Xiaojin Zhu, Andrew B. Goldberg, Michael Rabbat, R...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
The Tradeoffs Between Open and Traditional Relation Extraction
Traditional Information Extraction (IE) takes a relation name and hand-tagged examples of that relation as input. Open IE is a relationindependent extraction paradigm that is tail...
Michele Banko, Oren Etzioni
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Searching Questions by Identifying Question Topic and Question Focus
This paper is concerned with the problem of question search. In question search, given a question as query, we are to return questions semantically equivalent or close to the quer...
Huizhong Duan, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Yong Yu
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Assessing Dialog System User Simulation Evaluation Measures Using Human Judges
Previous studies evaluate simulated dialog corpora using evaluation measures which can be automatically extracted from the dialog systems' logs. However, the validity of thes...
Hua Ai, Diane J. Litman
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation
For centuries, the deep connection between languages has brought about major discoveries about human communication. In this paper we investigate how this powerful source of inform...
Benjamin Snyder, Regina Barzilay