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ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
User Requirements Analysis for Meeting Information Retrieval Based on Query Elicitation
We present a user requirements study for Question Answering on meeting records that assesses the difficulty of users questions in terms of what type of knowledge is required in or...
Vincenzo Pallotta, Violeta Seretan, Marita Ailomaa
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Optimal $k$-arization of Synchronous Tree-Adjoining Grammar
Rebecca Nesson, Giorgio Satta, Stuart M. Shieber
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient, Feature-based, Conditional Random Field Parsing
Discriminative feature-based methods are widely used in natural language processing, but sentence parsing is still dominated by generative methods. While prior feature-based dynam...
Jenny Rose Finkel, Alex Kleeman, Christopher D. Ma...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Transductive learning for statistical machine translation
Nicola Ueffing, Gholamreza Haffari, Anoop Sarkar
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Document-Level Semantic Properties from Free-Text Annotations
This paper demonstrates a new method for leveraging unstructured annotations to infer semantic document properties. We consider the domain of product reviews, which are often anno...
S. R. K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Jacob Eisenstein, Re...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Optimizing Grammars for Minimum Dependency Length
We examine the problem of choosing word order for a set of dependency trees so as to minimize total dependency length. We present an algorithm for computing the optimal layout of ...
Daniel Gildea, David Temperley
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Semi-Supervised Convex Training for Dependency Parsing
We present a novel semi-supervised training algorithm for learning dependency parsers. By combining a supervised large margin loss with an unsupervised least squares loss, a discr...
Qin Iris Wang, Dale Schuurmans, Dekang Lin
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Discriminative Latent Variable Model for Statistical Machine Translation
Large-scale discriminative machine translation promises to further the state-of-the-art, but has failed to deliver convincing gains over current heuristic frequency count systems....
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Miles Osborne
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Annotating and Learning Compound Noun Semantics
There is little consensus on a standard experimental design for the compound interpretation task. This paper introduces wellmotivated general desiderata for semantic annotation sc...
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Class Learning from the Web with Hyponym Pattern Linkage Graphs
We present a novel approach to weakly supervised semantic class learning from the web, using a single powerful hyponym pattern combined with graph structures, which capture two pr...
Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff, Eduard H. Hovy