ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
This paper describes the creation of the first large-scale corpus containing drafts and final versions of essays written by non-native speakers, with the sentences aligned acros...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
We propose a new approach to characterizing the timeline of a text: temporal dependency structures, where all the events of a narrative are linked via partial ordering relations l...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
Temporal reasoners for document understanding typically assume that a document’s creation date is known. Algorithms to ground relative time expressions and order events often re...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
This paper introduces BIUTEE1 , an opensource system for recognizing textual entailment. Its main advantages are its ability to utilize various types of knowledge resources, and i...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
We propose several techniques for improving statistical machine translation between closely-related languages with scarce resources. We use character-level translation trained on ...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
We investigate the problem of acoustic modeling in which prior language-specific knowledge and transcribed data are unavailable. We present an unsupervised model that simultaneou...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
We present a Bayesian nonparametric model for estimating tree insertion grammars (TIG), building upon recent work in Bayesian inference of tree substitution grammars (TSG) via Dir...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
This paper proposes a data-driven method for concept-to-text generation, the task of automatically producing textual output from non-linguistic input. A key insight in our approac...
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
2012
We demonstrate applications of psycholinguistic and sublexical information for learning Chinese characters. The knowledge about the grapheme-phoneme conversion (GPC) rules of lang...