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ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic Sanskrit Segmentizer Using Finite State Transducers
In this paper, we propose a novel method for automatic segmentation of a Sanskrit string into different words. The input for our segmentizer is a Sanskrit string either encoded as...
Vipul Mittal
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
WSD as a Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem
This work models Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) problem as a Distributed Constraint Optimization Problem (DCOP). To model WSD as a DCOP, we view information from various knowledg...
Siva Reddy, Abhilash Inumella
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Weakly Supervised Learning of Presupposition Relations between Verbs
Presupposition relations between verbs are not very well covered in existing lexical semantic resources. We propose a weakly supervised algorithm for learning presupposition relat...
Galina Tremper
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Expanding Verb Coverage in Cyc with VerbNet
A robust dictionary of semantic frames is an essential element of natural language understanding systems that use ontologies. However, creating lexical resources that accurately c...
Clifton McFate
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
It Makes Sense: A Wide-Coverage Word Sense Disambiguation System for Free Text
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems based on supervised learning achieved the best performance in SensEval and SemEval workshops. However, there are few publicly available ope...
Zhi Zhong, Hwee Tou Ng
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Speech-Driven Access to the Deep Web on Mobile Devices
The Deep Web is the collection of information repositories that are not indexed by search engines. These repositories are typically accessible through web forms and contain dynami...
Taniya Mishra, Srinivas Bangalore
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Tackling Sparse Data Issue in Machine Translation Evaluation
We illustrate and explain problems of n-grams-based machine translation (MT) metrics (e.g. BLEU) when applied to morphologically rich languages such as Czech. A novel metric SemPO...
Ondrej Bojar, Kamil Kos, David Marecek
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Paraphrase Lattice for Statistical Machine Translation
Lattice decoding in statistical machine translation (SMT) is useful in speech translation and in the translation of German because it can handle input ambiguities such as speech r...
Takashi Onishi, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Event-Based Hyperspace Analogue to Language for Query Expansion
Bag-of-words approaches to information retrieval (IR) are effective but assume independence between words. The Hyperspace Analogue to Language (HAL) is a cognitively motivated and...
Tingxu Yan, Tamsin Maxwell, Dawei Song, Yuexian Ho...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Authorship Attribution Using Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars
In this paper, we present a novel approach for authorship attribution, the task of identifying the author of a document, using probabilistic context-free grammars. Our approach in...
Sindhu Raghavan, Adriana Kovashka, Raymond J. Moon...