EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Contradiction Detection (CD) in text is a difficult NLP task. We investigate CD over functions (e.g., BornIn(Person)=Place), and present a domain-independent algorithm that automa...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper explores the use of set expansion (SE) to improve question answering (QA) when the expected answer is a list of entities belonging to a certain class. Given a small set...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Syntactic word reordering is essential for translations across different grammar structures between syntactically distant languagepairs. In this paper, we propose to embed local a...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper presents a graph-theoretic model of the acquisition of lexical syntactic representations. The representations the model learns are non-categorical or graded. We propose...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
NLP tasks are often domain specific, yet systems can learn behaviors across multiple domains. We develop a new multi-domain online learning framework based on parameter combinatio...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
To improve the Mandarin large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR), a unified framework based approach is introduced to exploit multi-level linguistic knowledge. In th...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Minimum-error-rate training (MERT) is a bottleneck for current development in statistical machine translation because it is limited in the number of weights it can reliably optimi...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
We introduce a method for solving substitution ciphers using low-order letter n-gram models. This method enforces global constraints using integer programming, and it guarantees t...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Translation rule extraction is a fundamental problem in machine translation, especially for linguistically syntax-based systems that need parse trees from either or both sides of ...