EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
In this paper, we consider the problem of generating candidate corrections for the task of correcting errors in text. We focus on the task of correcting errors in preposition usag...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We explore the task of automatically classifying dialogue acts in 1-on-1 online chat forums, an increasingly popular means of providing customer service. In particular, we investi...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
In this paper we develop an approach to tackle the problem of verb selection for learners of English as a second language (ESL) by using features from the output of Semantic Role ...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
For resource-limited language pairs, coverage of the test set by the parallel corpus is an important factor that affects translation quality in two respects: 1) out of vocabulary ...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
In this paper, we present a novel approach to enhance hierarchical phrase-based machine translation systems with linguistically motivated syntactic features. Rather than directly ...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Automatic evaluation of Machine Translation (MT) quality is essential to developing highquality MT systems. Various evaluation metrics have been proposed, and BLEU is now used as ...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Many sequence labeling tasks in NLP require solving a cascade of segmentation and tagging subtasks, such as Chinese POS tagging, named entity recognition, and so on. Traditional p...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper introduces algorithms for nonprojective parsing based on dual decomposition. We focus on parsing algorithms for nonprojective head automata, a generalization of head-au...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We examine effects that empty categories have on machine translation. Empty categories are elements in parse trees that lack corresponding overt surface forms (words) such as drop...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Syntax-based translation models should in principle be efficient with polynomially-sized search space, but in practice they are often embarassingly slow, partly due to the cost of...