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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Improved Lexical Alignment by Combining Multiple Reified Alignments
We describe a word alignment platform which ensures text pre-processing (tokenization, POS-tagging, lemmatization, chunking, sentence alignment) as required by an accurate word al...
Dan Tufis, Radu Ion, Alexandru Ceausu, Dan Stefane...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Investigating a Generic Paraphrase-Based Approach for Relation Extraction
Unsupervised paraphrase acquisition has been an active research field in recent years, but its effective coverage and performance have rarely been evaluated. We propose a generic ...
Lorenza Romano, Milen Kouylekov, Idan Szpektor, Id...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Compiling French-Japanese Terminologies from the Web
We propose a method for compiling bilingual terminologies of multi-word terms (MWTs) for given translation pairs of seed terms. Traditional methods for bilingual terminology compi...
Xavier Robitaille, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Masatsugu Tono...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Developing an Approach for Why-Question Answering
In the current project, we aim at developing an approach for automatically answering why-questions. We created a data collection for research, development and evaluation of a meth...
Suzan Verberne
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Computational Complexity of Statistical Machine Translation
Raghavendra Udupa, Hemanta Kumar Maji
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Exploring the Sense Distributions of Homographs
This paper quantitatively investigates in how far local context is useful to disambiguate the senses of an ambiguous word. This is done by comparing the co-occurrence frequencies ...
Reinhard Rapp
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
A Probabilistic Answer Type Model
All questions are implicitly associated with an expected answer type. Unlike previous approaches that require a predefined set of question types, we present a method for dynamical...
Christopher Pinchak, Dekang Lin
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Adaptivity in Question Answering with User Modelling and a Dialogue Interface
Most question answering (QA) and information retrieval (IR) systems are insensitive to different users' needs and preferences, and also to the existence of multiple, complex ...
Silvia Quarteroni, Suresh Manandhar
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Semantic Role Labeling for Coreference Resolution
Extending a machine learning based coreference resolution system with a feature capturing automatically generated information about semantic roles improves its performance.
Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Michael Strube
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
Example-Based Metonymy Recognition for Proper Nouns
Metonymy recognition is generally approached with complex algorithms that rely heavily on the manual annotation of training and test data. This paper will relieve this complexity ...
Yves Peirsman