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COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Classifier-Based Approach to Preposition and Determiner Error Correction in L2 English
In this paper, we present an approach to the automatic identification and correction of preposition and determiner errors in nonnative (L2) English writing. We show that models of...
Rachele De Felice, Stephen G. Pulman
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Metric Learning for Synonym Acquisition
The distance or similarity metric plays an important role in many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of a number of metr...
Nobuyuki Shimizu, Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa,...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Scientific Paper Summarization Using Citation Summary Networks
Quickly moving to a new area of research is painful for researchers due to the vast amount of scientific literature in each field of study. One possible way to overcome this probl...
Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Class-Driven Attribute Extraction
We report on the large-scale acquisition of class attributes with and without the use of lists of representative instances, as well as the discovery of unary attributes, such as t...
Benjamin Van Durme, Ting Qian, Lenhart Schubert
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Tera-Scale Translation Models via Pattern Matching
Translation model size is growing at a pace that outstrips improvements in computing power, and this hinders research on many interesting models. We show how an algorithmic scalin...
Adam Lopez
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Hindi Urdu Machine Transliteration using Finite-State Transducers
Finite-state Transducers (FST) can be very efficient to implement inter-dialectal transliteration. We illustrate this on the Hindi and Urdu language pair. FSTs can also be used fo...
M. G. Abbas Malik, Christian Boitet, Pushpak Bhatt...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Choosing the Right Translation: A Syntactically Informed Classification Approach
One style of Multi-Engine Machine Translation architecture involves choosing the best of a set of outputs from different systems. Choosing the best translation from an arbitrary s...
Simon Zwarts, Mark Dras
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Induction of Labeled Parse Trees by Clustering with Syntactic Features
We present an algorithm for unsupervised induction of labeled parse trees. The algorithm has three stages: bracketing, initial labeling, and label clustering. Bracketing is done f...
Roi Reichart, Ari Rappoport
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Random Restarts in Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
Och's (2003) minimum error rate training (MERT) procedure is the most commonly used method for training feature weights in statistical machine translation (SMT) models. The u...
Robert C. Moore, Chris Quirk