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ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Generating Usable Formats for Metadata and Annotations in a Large Meeting Corpus
The AMI Meeting Corpus is now publicly available, including manual annotation files generated in the NXT XML format, but lacking explicit metadata for the 171 meetings of the cor...
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Paula Estrella
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Randomized Language Models via Perfect Hash Functions
We propose a succinct randomized language model which employs a perfect hash function to encode fingerprints of n-grams and their associated probabilities, backoff weights, or oth...
David Talbot, Thorsten Brants
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing
This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics com...
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Forest-Based Translation
Among syntax-based translation models, the tree-based approach, which takes as input a parse tree of the source sentence, is a promising direction being faster and simpler than it...
Haitao Mi, Liang Huang, Qun Liu
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation
We address two problems in the field of automatic optimization of dialogue strategies: learning effective dialogue strategies when no initial data or system exists, and evaluating...
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Refining Event Extraction through Cross-Document Inference
We apply the hypothesis of "One Sense Per Discourse" (Yarowsky, 1995) to information extraction (IE), and extend the scope of "discourse" from one single docum...
Heng Ji, Ralph Grishman
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Mildly Context-Sensitive Dependency Languages
Dependency-based representations of natural language syntax require a fine balance between structural flexibility and computational complexity. In previous work, several constra...
Marco Kuhlmann, Mathias Möhl
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Name Translation in Statistical Machine Translation - Learning When to Transliterate
We present a method to transliterate names in the framework of end-to-end statistical machine translation. The system is trained to learn when to transliterate. For Arabic to Engl...
Ulf Hermjakob, Kevin Knight, Hal Daumé III