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EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
SPMT: Statistical Machine Translation with Syntactified Target Language Phrases
We introduce SPMT, a new class of statistical Translation Models that use Syntactified target language Phrases. The SPMT models outperform a state of the art phrase-based baseline...
Daniel Marcu, Wei Wang, Abdessamad Echihabi, Kevin...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Skip-Chain Conditional Random Field for Ranking Meeting Utterances by Importance
We describe a probabilistic approach to content selection for meeting summarization. We use skipchain Conditional Random Fields (CRF) to model non-local pragmatic dependencies bet...
Michel Galley
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Protein folding and chart parsing
How can proteins fold so quickly into their unique native structures? We show here that there is a natural analogy between parsing and the protein folding problem, and demonstrate...
Julia Hockenmaier, Aravind K. Joshi, Ken A. Dill
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