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EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Lexical Reference: a Semantic Matching Subtask
Semantic lexical matching is a prominent subtask within text understanding applications. Yet, it is rarely evaluated in a direct manner. This paper proposes a definition for lexic...
Oren Glickman, Eyal Shnarch, Ido Dagan
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Re-evaluating Machine Translation Results with Paraphrase Support
In this paper, we present ParaEval, an automatic evaluation framework that uses paraphrases to improve the quality of machine translation evaluations. Previous work has focused on...
Liang Zhou, Chin-Yew Lin, Eduard H. Hovy
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Corrective Models for Speech Recognition of Inflected Languages
This paper presents a corrective model for speech recognition of inflected languages. The model, based on a discriminative framework, incorporates word ngrams features as well as ...
Izhak Shafran, Keith Hall
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Two graph-based algorithms for state-of-the-art WSD
This paper explores the use of two graph algorithms for unsupervised induction and tagging of nominal word senses based on corpora. Our main contribution is the optimization of th...
Eneko Agirre, David Martínez, Oier Lopez de...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Context-Dependent Term Relations for Information Retrieval
Co-occurrence analysis has been used to determine related words or terms in many NLP-related applications such as query expansion in Information Retrieval (IR). However, related w...
Jing Bai, Jian-Yun Nie, Guihong Cao
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Statistical Machine Reordering
Reordering is currently one of the most important problems in statistical machine translation systems. This paper presents a novel strategy for dealing with it: statistical machin...
Marta R. Costa-Jussà, José A. R. Fon...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Random Indexing using Statistical Weight Functions
Random Indexing is a vector space technique that provides an efficient and scalable approximation to distributional similarity problems. We present experiments showing Random Inde...
James Gorman, James R. Curran
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Detecting Parser Errors Using Web-based Semantic Filters
NLP systems for tasks such as question answering and information extraction typically rely on statistical parsers. But the efficacy of such parsers can be surprisingly low, partic...
Alexander Yates, Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzion...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic classification of citation function
The automatic recognition of the rhetorical function of citations in scientific text has many applications, from improvement of impact factor calculations to text summarisation an...
Simone Teufel, Advaith Siddharthan, Dan Tidhar
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Methods for Transliteration
We present two discriminative methods for name transliteration. The methods correspond to local and global modeling approaches in modeling structured output spaces. Both methods d...
Dmitry Zelenko, Chinatsu Aone