ACL
2007
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2007
Transliteration is the task of converting a word from one alphabetic script to another. We present a novel, substring-based approach to transliteration, inspired by phrasebased mo...
ACL
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
We take a multi-pass approach to machine translation decoding when using synchronous context-free grammars as the translation model and n-gram language models: the first pass uses...
ACL
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
The ability to detect similarity in conjunct heads is potentially a useful tool in helping to disambiguate coordination structures - a difficult task for parsers. We propose a di...
ACL
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
Paraphrases have proved to be useful in many applications, including Machine Translation, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Retrieval. Paraphrase acquisition meth...
ACL
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
We outline the problem of ad hoc rules in treebanks, rules used for specific constructions in one data set and unlikely to be used again. These include ungeneralizable rules, erro...
ACL
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
The increasing complexity of summarization systems makes it difficult to analyze exactly which modules make a difference in performance. We carried out a principled comparison be...
ACL
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
ACL
2008
13 years 7 months ago
2008
We present a simple linguistically-motivated method for characterizing the semantic relations that hold between two nouns. The approach leverages the vast size of the Web in order...
ACL
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
This paper introduces conceptual framework of an ontology for describing linguistic services on network-based language infrastructures. The ontology defines a taxonomy of processi...