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ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Where's the Verb? Correcting Machine Translation During Question Answering
When a multi-lingual question-answering (QA) system provides an answer that has been incorrectly translated, it is very likely to be regarded as irrelevant. In this paper, we prop...
Wei-Yun Ma, Kathy McKeown
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Realistic Grammar Error Simulation using Markov Logic
The development of Dialog-Based ComputerAssisted Language Learning (DB-CALL) systems requires research on the simulation of language learners. This paper presents a new method for...
Sungjin Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Toward Smaller, Faster, and Better Hierarchical Phrase-based SMT
We investigate the use of Fisher's exact significance test for pruning the translation table of a hierarchical phrase-based statistical machine translation system. In additio...
Mei Yang, Jing Zheng
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Transliteration Alignment
This paper studies transliteration alignment, its evaluation metrics and applications. We propose a new evaluation metric, alignment entropy, grounded on the information theory, t...
Vladimir Pervouchine, Haizhou Li, Bo Lin
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Conundrums in Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State-of-the-Art
We aim to shed light on the state-of-the-art in NP coreference resolution by teasing apart the differences in the MUC and ACE task definitions, the assumptions made in evaluation ...
Veselin Stoyanov, Nathan Gilbert, Claire Cardie, E...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Generative Blog Post Retrieval Model that Uses Query Expansion based on External Collections
User generated content is characterized by short, noisy documents, with many spelling errors and unexpected language usage. To bridge the vocabulary gap between the user's in...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Heterogeneous Transfer Learning for Image Clustering via the SocialWeb
Qiang Yang, Yuqiang Chen, Gui-Rong Xue, Wenyuan Da...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Mining Bilingual Data from the Web with Adaptively Learnt Patterns
Mining bilingual data (including bilingual sentences and terms1 ) from the Web can benefit many NLP applications, such as machine translation and cross language information retrie...
Long Jiang, Shiquan Yang, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu, ...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Profile Based Cross-Document Coreference Using Kernelized Fuzzy Relational Clustering
Coreferencing entities across documents in a large corpus enables advanced document understanding tasks such as question answering. This paper presents a novel cross document core...
Jian Huang 0002, Sarah M. Taylor, Jonathan L. Smit...