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ACL
2012
11 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Chinese Parsers for Stanford Dependencies
Stanford dependencies are widely used in natural language processing as a semanticallyoriented representation, commonly generated either by (i) converting the output of a constitu...
Wanxiang Che, Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Ting Liu
ACL
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Grammar Error Correction Using Pseudo-Error Sentences and Domain Adaptation
This paper presents grammar error correction for Japanese particles that uses discriminative sequence conversion, which corrects erroneous particles by substitution, insertion, an...
Kenji Imamura, Kuniko Saito, Kugatsu Sadamitsu, Hi...
ACL
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Arabic Retrieval Revisited: Morphological Hole Filling
Due to Arabic’s morphological complexity, Arabic retrieval benefits greatly from morphological analysis – particularly stemming. However, the best known stemming does not hand...
Kareem Darwish, Ahmed Ali
ACL
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Native Language Detection with Tree Substitution Grammars
We investigate the potential of Tree Substitution Grammars as a source of features for native language detection, the task of inferring an author’s native language from text in ...
Benjamin Swanson, Eugene Charniak
ACL
2012
11 years 6 months ago
CSNIPER - Annotation-by-query for Non-canonical Constructions in Large Corpora
We present CSNIPER (Corpus Sniper), a tool that implements (i) a web-based multiuser scenario for identifying and annotating non-canonical grammatical constructions in large corpo...
Richard Eckart de Castilho, Sabine Bartsch, Iryna ...
ACL
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Joint Learning of a Dual SMT System for Paraphrase Generation
SMT has been used in paraphrase generation by translating a source sentence into another (pivot) language and then back into the source. The resulting sentences can be used as can...
Hong Sun, Ming Zhou
ACL
2012
11 years 6 months ago
A Novel Burst-based Text Representation Model for Scalable Event Detection
Mining retrospective events from text streams has been an important research topic. Classic text representation model (i.e., vector space model) cannot model temporal aspects of d...
Xin Zhao, Rishan Chen, Kai Fan, Hongfei Yan, Xiaom...
ACL
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Semantic Parsing with Bayesian Tree Transducers
Many semantic parsing models use tree transformations to map between natural language and meaning representation. However, while tree transformations are central to several state-...
Bevan K. Jones, Mark Johnson, Sharon Goldwater
ACL
2012
11 years 6 months ago
Syntactic Annotations for the Google Books NGram Corpus
We present a new edition of the Google Books Ngram Corpus, which describes how often words and phrases were used over a period of five centuries, in eight languages; it reflects...
Yuri Lin, Jean-Baptiste Michel, Erez Aiden Lieberm...