ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Statistical parsing of noun phrase (NP) structure has been hampered by a lack of goldstandard data. This is a significant problem for CCGbank, where binary branching NP derivation...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
This paper describes an incremental parser and an unsupervised learning algorithm for inducing this parser from plain text. The parser uses a representation for syntactic structur...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
We define a new formalism, based on Sikkel's parsing schemata for constituency parsers, that can be used to describe, analyze and compare dependency parsing algorithms. This ...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
The traditional mention-pair model for coreference resolution cannot capture information beyond mention pairs for both learning and testing. To deal with this problem, we present ...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
This paper presents a Function Word centered, Syntax-based (FWS) solution to address phrase ordering in the context of statistical machine translation (SMT). Motivated by the obse...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
For Chinese POS tagging, word segmentation is a preliminary step. To avoid error propagation and improve segmentation by utilizing POS information, segmentation and tagging can be...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
While the average performance of statistical parsers gradually improves, they still attach to many sentences annotations of rather low quality. The number of such sentences grows ...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper presents a translation model that is based on tree sequence alignment, where a tree sequence refers to a single sequence of subtrees that covers a phrase. The model lev...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Words of foreign origin are referred to as borrowed words or loanwords. A loanword is usually imported to Chinese by phonetic transliteration if a translation is not easily availa...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This study presents a novel approach to the problem of system portability across different domains: a sentiment annotation system that integrates a corpus-based classifier trained...