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ACL
2015
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Improving Pivot Translation by Remembering the Pivot
Pivot translation allows for translation of language pairs with little or no parallel data by introducing a third language for which data exists. In particular, the triangulation ...
Akiva Miura, Graham Neubig, Sakriani Sakti, Tomoki...
ACL
2015
8 years 8 days ago
Semantic Representations for Domain Adaptation: A Case Study on the Tree Kernel-based Method for Relation Extraction
We study the application of word embeddings to generate semantic representations for the domain adaptation problem of relation extraction (RE) in the tree kernelbased method. We s...
Thien Huu Nguyen, Barbara Plank, Ralph Grishman
ACL
2015
8 years 8 days ago
Non-linear Learning for Statistical Machine Translation
Modern statistical machine translation (SMT) systems usually use a linear combination of features to model the quality of each translation hypothesis. The linear combination assum...
Shujian Huang, Huadong Chen, Xinyu Dai, Jiajun Che...
ACL
2015
8 years 8 days ago
Automatic Keyword Extraction on Twitter
In this paper, we build a corpus of tweets from Twitter annotated with keywords using crowdsourcing methods. We identify key differences between this domain and the work performed...
Luís Marujo, Wang Ling, Isabel Trancoso, Ch...
ACL
2015
8 years 8 days ago
NiuParser: A Chinese Syntactic and Semantic Parsing Toolkit
We present a new toolkit - NiuParser for Chinese syntactic and semantic analysis. It can handle a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in Chinese, including word ...
Jingbo Zhu, Muhua Zhu, Qiang Wang, Tong Xiao
ACL
2015
8 years 8 days ago
I do not disagree: leveraging monolingual alignment to detect disagreement in dialogue
A wide array of natural dialogue discourse can be found on the internet. Previous attempts to automatically determine disagreement between interlocutors in such dialogue have most...
Ajda Gokcen, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe
ACL
2015
8 years 8 days ago
A Distributed Representation Based Query Expansion Approach for Image Captioning
In this paper, we propose a novel query expansion approach for improving transferbased automatic image captioning. The core idea of our method is to translate the given visual que...
Semih Yagcioglu, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem, Ruket C...
ACL
2015
8 years 8 days ago
A Dual-Layer Semantic Role Labeling System
We describe a well-performed semantic role labeling system that further extracts concepts (smaller semantic expressions) from unstructured natural language sentences language inde...
Lun-Wei Ku, Shafqat Mumtaz Virk, Yann-Huei Lee
ACL
2015
8 years 8 days ago
A Long Short-Term Memory Model for Answer Sentence Selection in Question Answering
In this paper, we present an approach that address the answer sentence selection problem for question answering. The proposed method uses a stacked bidirectional Long-Short Term M...
Di Wang, Eric Nyberg
ACL
2015
8 years 8 days ago
Recovering dropped pronouns from Chinese text messages
Pronouns are frequently dropped in Chinese sentences, especially in informal data such as text messages. In this work we propose a solution to recover dropped pronouns in SMS data...
Yaqin Yang, Yalin Liu, Nianwen Xue