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ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Training Phrase Translation Models with Leaving-One-Out
Several attempts have been made to learn phrase translation probabilities for phrasebased statistical machine translation that go beyond pure counting of phrases in word-aligned t...
Joern Wuebker, Arne Mauser, Hermann Ney
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Learning Script Knowledge with Web Experiments
We describe a novel approach to unsupervised learning of the events that make up a script, along with constraints on their temporal ordering. We collect naturallanguage descriptio...
Michaela Regneri, Alexander Koller, Manfred Pinkal
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Identifying Non-Explicit Citing Sentences for Citation-Based Summarization
Identifying background (context) information in scientific articles can help scholars understand major contributions in their research area more easily. In this paper, we propose ...
Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Fine-Grained Tree-to-String Translation Rule Extraction
Tree-to-string translation rules are widely used in linguistically syntax-based statistical machine translation systems. In this paper, we propose to use deep syntactic informatio...
Xianchao Wu, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun-ichi Tsujii
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Generating Image Descriptions Using Dependency Relational Patterns
This paper presents a novel approach to automatic captioning of geo-tagged images by summarizing multiple webdocuments that contain information related to an image's location...
Ahmet Aker, Robert J. Gaizauskas
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Taxonomy, Dataset, and Classifier for Automatic Noun Compound Interpretation
The automatic interpretation of noun-noun compounds is an important subproblem within many natural language processing applications and is an area of increasing interest. The prob...
Stephen Tratz, Eduard H. Hovy
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Hybrid Hierarchical Model for Multi-Document Summarization
Scoring sentences in documents given abstract summaries created by humans is important in extractive multi-document summarization. In this paper, we formulate extractive summariza...
Asli Çelikyilmaz, Dilek Hakkani-Tur
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Learning 5000 Relational Extractors
Many researchers are trying to use information extraction (IE) to create large-scale knowledge bases from natural language text on the Web. However, the primary approach (supervis...
Raphael Hoffmann, Congle Zhang, Daniel S. Weld
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Optimising Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
We present a novel approach to Information Presentation (IP) in Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) using a data-driven statistical optimisation framework for content planning and attri...
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu