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EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Multi-Document Biography Summarization
In this paper we describe a biography summarization system using sentence classification and ideas from information retrieval. Although the individual techniques are not new, asse...
Liang Zhou, Miruna Ticrea, Eduard H. Hovy
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Resource-light Approach to Russian Morphology: Tagging Russian using Czech resources
In this paper, we describe a resource-light system for the automatic morphological analysis and tagging of Russian. We eschew the use of extensive resources (particularly, large a...
Jiri Hana, Anna Feldman, Chris Brew
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Analysis of Plot for Story Rewriting
A method for automatic plot analysis of narrative texts that uses components of both traditional symbolic analysis of natural language and statistical machine-learning is presente...
Harry Halpin, Johanna D. Moore, Judy Robertson
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Monolingual Machine Translation for Paraphrase Generation
We apply statistical machine translation (SMT) tools to generate novel paraphrases of input sentences in the same language. The system is trained on large volumes of sentence pair...
Chris Quirk, Chris Brockett, William B. Dolan
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
LexPageRank: Prestige in Multi-Document Text Summarization
Multidocument extractive summarization relies on the concept of sentence centrality to identify the most important sentences in a document. Centrality is typically defined in term...
Günes Erkan, Dragomir R. Radev
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Induction of Greedy Controllers for Deterministic Treebank Parsers
Most statistical parsers have used the grammar induction approach, in which a stochastic grammar is induced from a treebank. An alternative approach is to induce a controller for ...
Tom Kalt
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
TextRank: Bringing Order into Text
In this paper, we introduce TextRank
Rada Mihalcea, Paul Tarau
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Statistical Significance Tests for Machine Translation Evaluation
If two translation systems differ differ in performance on a test set, can we trust that this indicates a difference in true system quality? To answer this question, we describe b...
Philipp Koehn
EMNLP
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Dependencies vs. Constituents for Tree-Based Alignment
Given a parallel parsed corpus, statistical treeto-tree alignment attempts to match nodes in the syntactic trees for a given sentence in two languages. We train a probabilistic tr...
Daniel Gildea