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EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Language and Translation Models for Interactive Machine Translation
We describe experiments carried out with adaptive language and translation models in the context of an interactive computer-assisted translation program. We developed cache-based ...
Laurent Nepveu, Guy Lapalme, Philippe Langlais, Ge...
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A New Approach for English-Chinese Named Entity Alignment
Traditional word alignment approaches cannot come up with satisfactory results for Named Entities. In this paper, we propose a novel approach using a maximum entropy model for nam...
Donghui Feng, Yajuan Lü, Ming Zhou
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
VerbOcean: Mining the Web for Fine-Grained Semantic Verb Relations
Broad-coverage repositories of semantic relations between verbs could benefit many NLP tasks. We present a semi-automatic method for extracting fine-grained semantic relations bet...
Timothy Chklovski, Patrick Pantel
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
On Log-Likelihood-Ratios and the Significance of Rare Events
We address the issue of judging the significance of rare events as it typically arises in statistical naturallanguage processing. We first define a general approach to the problem...
Robert C. Moore
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Domain Relevance Estimation for Word Sense Disambiguation
This paper presents Domain Relevance Estimation (DRE), a fully unsupervised text categorization technique based on the statistical estimation of the relevance of a text with respe...
Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Bernardo Magnini, Carl...
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Bilingual Parsing with Factored Estimation: Using English to Parse Korean
We describe how simple, commonly understood statistical models, such as statistical dependency parsers, probabilistic context-free grammars, and word-to-word translation models, c...
David A. Smith, Noah A. Smith
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
The Entropy Rate Principle as a Predictor of Processing Effort: An Evaluation against Eye-tracking Data
This paper provides evidence for Genzel and Charniak's (2002) entropy rate principle, which predicts that the entropy of a sentence increases with its position in the text. W...
Frank Keller
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Hebrew Roots: Machine Learning with Linguistic Constraints
The morphology of Semitic languages is unique in the sense that the major word-formation mechanism is an inherently non-concatenative process of interdigitation, whereby two morph...
Ezra Daya, Dan Roth, Shuly Wintner
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Object-Extraction and Question-Parsing using CCG
Accurate dependency recovery has recently been reported for a number of wide-coverage statistical parsers using Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG). However, overall figures give...
Stephen Clark, Mark Steedman, James R. Curran