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COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Machine Transliteration: Leveraging on Third Languages
This paper presents two pivot strategies for statistical machine transliteration, namely system-based pivot strategy and model-based pivot strategy. Given two independent source-p...
Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, Vladimir Pervouchine, Hai...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Towards Automatic Building of Document Keywords
Document keywords are associated to documents as summarized versions of the documents' content. Considering that the number of documents is quickly growing every day, the ava...
Joaquim Silva, José Gabriel Lopes
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Improving Reordering with Linguistically Informed Bilingual n-grams
We present a new reordering model estimated as a standard n-gram language model with units built from morphosyntactic information of the source and target languages. It can be see...
Josep Maria Crego, François Yvon
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Opinion Target Extraction in Chinese News Comments
News Comments on the web express readers' attitudes or opinions about an event or object in the corresponding news article. And opinion target extraction from news comments i...
Tengfei Ma, Xiaojun Wan
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Cue Phrases for Cross-Corpus Dialogue Act Classification
In this paper, we present an investigation into the use of cue phrases as a basis for dialogue act classification. We define what we mean by cue phrases, and describe how we extra...
Nick Webb, Michael Ferguson
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Designing Agreement Features for Realization Ranking
This paper shows that incorporating linguistically motivated features to ensure correct animacy and number agreement in an averaged perceptron ranking model for CCG realization he...
Rajakrishnan Rajkumar, Michael White
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Local Space-Time Smoothing for Version Controlled Documents
Unlike static documents, version controlled documents are continuously edited by one or more authors. Such collaborative revision process makes traditional modeling and visualizat...
Seungyeon Kim, Guy Lebanon
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Integrating N-best SMT Outputs into a TM System
In this paper, we propose a novel framework to enrich Translation Memory (TM) systems with Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) outputs using ranking. In order to offer the human...
Yifan He, Yanjun Ma, Andy Way, Josef van Genabith
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Machine Translation with Lattices and Forests
Traditional 1-best translation pipelines suffer a major drawback: the errors of 1best outputs, inevitably introduced by each module, will propagate and accumulate along the pipeli...
Haitao Mi, Liang Huang, Qun Liu
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Study of Translation Rule Extraction with Multiple Parsers
Translation rule extraction is an important issue in syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). Recent studies show that rule coverage is one of the key factors affecting...
Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu, Hao Zhang, Muhua Zhu