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EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Integrating sentence- and word-level error identification for disfluency correction
While speaking spontaneously, speakers often make errors such as self-correction or false starts which interfere with the successful application of natural language processing tec...
Erin Fitzgerald, Frederick Jelinek, Keith Hall
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Improving Verb Clustering with Automatically Acquired Selectional Preferences
In previous research in automatic verb classification, syntactic features have proved the most useful features, although manual classifications rely heavily on semantic features. ...
Lin Sun, Anna Korhonen
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Perceptron Reranking for CCG Realization
This paper shows that discriminative reranking with an averaged perceptron model yields substantial improvements in realization quality with CCG. The paper confirms the utility of...
Michael White, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Joint Optimization for Machine Translation System Combination
System combination has emerged as a powerful method for machine translation (MT). This paper pursues a joint optimization strategy for combining outputs from multiple MT systems, ...
Xiaodong He, Kristina Toutanova
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Construction of a Blog Emotion Corpus for Chinese Emotional Expression Analysis
There is plenty of evidence that emotion analysis has many valuable applications. In this study a blog emotion corpus is constructed for Chinese emotional expression analysis. Thi...
Changqin Quan, Fuji Ren
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
First- and Second-Order Expectation Semirings with Applications to Minimum-Risk Training on Translation Forests
Many statistical translation models can be regarded as weighted logical deduction. Under this paradigm, we use weights from the expectation semiring (Eisner, 2002), to compute fir...
Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Enhancement of Lexical Concepts Using Cross-lingual Web Mining
Sets of lexical items sharing a significant aspect of their meaning (concepts) are fundamental in linguistics and NLP. Manual concept compilation is labor intensive, error prone a...
Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Refining Grammars for Parsing with Hierarchical Semantic Knowledge
This paper proposes a novel method to refine the grammars in parsing by utilizing semantic knowledge from HowNet. Based on the hierarchical state-split approach, which can refine ...
Xiaojun Lin, Yang Fan, Meng Zhang, Xihong Wu, Huis...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Improving Dependency Parsing with Subtrees from Auto-Parsed Data
This paper presents a simple and effective approach to improve dependency parsing by using subtrees from auto-parsed data. First, we use a baseline parser to parse large-scale una...
Wenliang Chen, Jun'ichi Kazama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto,...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Discriminative Corpus Weight Estimation for Machine Translation
Current statistical machine translation (SMT) systems are trained on sentencealigned and word-aligned parallel text collected from various sources. Translation model parameters ar...
Spyros Matsoukas, Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Bing Zhan...