ACL
2010
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2010
Conditional Random Fields (CRFs) are a widely-used approach for supervised sequence labelling, notably due to their ability to handle large description spaces and to integrate str...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We outline different methods to detect errors in automatically-parsed dependency corpora, by comparing so-called dependency rules to their representation in the training data and ...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present a system that learns to follow navigational natural language directions. Where traditional models learn from linguistic annotation or word distributions, our approach i...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present a discriminative model that directly predicts which set of phrasal translation rules should be extracted from a sentence pair. Our model scores extraction sets: nested ...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We consider the search for a maximum likelihood assignment of hidden derivations and grammar weights for a probabilistic context-free grammar, the problem approximately solved by ...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper describes a series of experiments to test the hypothesis that the parallel application of multiple NLP tools and the integration of their results improves the correctne...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present a simple yet powerful hierarchical search algorithm for automatic word alignment. Our algorithm induces a forest of alignments from which we can efficiently extract a r...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We introduce a novel mechanism for incorporating articulatory dynamics into speech recognition with the theory of task dynamics. This system reranks sentencelevel hypotheses by th...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
While Inversion Transduction Grammar (ITG) has regained more and more attention in recent years, it still suffers from the major obstacle of speed. We propose a discriminative ITG...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Discourse references, notably coreference and bridging, play an important role in many text understanding applications, but their impact on textual entailment is yet to be systema...