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NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A low-complexity, broad-coverage probabilistic Dependency Parser for English
Large-scale parsing is still a complex and timeconsuming process, often so much that it is infeasible in real-world applications. The parsing system described here addresses this ...
Gerold Schneider
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Hybrid Approach to Content Analysis for Automatic Essay Grading
We present CarmelTC, a novel hybrid text classification approach for automatic essay grading. Our evaluation demonstrates that the hybrid CarmelTC approach outperforms two “bag...
Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Antonio Roque, Dumis...
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Supervised and unsupervised PCFG adaptation to novel domains
This paper investigates adapting a lexicalized probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG) to a novel domain, using maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation. The MAP framework is gener...
Brian Roark, Michiel Bacchiani
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Derivation of Surface Text Patterns for a Maximum Entropy Based Question Answering System
In this paper we investigate the use of surface text patterns for a Maximum Entropy based Question Answering (QA) system. These text patterns are collected automatically in an uns...
Deepak Ravichandran, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Ro...
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Demonstration of the CROSSMARC System
Vangelis Karkaletsis, Constantine D. Spyropoulos, ...
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Generative Probabilistic OCR Model for NLP Applications
In this paper, we introduce a generative probabilistic optical character recognition (OCR) model that describes an end-to-end process in the noisy channel framework, progressing f...
Okan Kolak, William J. Byrne, Philip Resnik
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Word Sense Acquisition from Bilingual Comparable Corpora
Manually constructing an inventory of word senses has suffered from problems including high cost, arbitrary assignment of meaning to words, and mismatch to domains. To overcome th...
Hiroyuki Kaji
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Discriminating Among Word Senses Using McQuitty's Similarity Analysis
This paper presents an unsupervised method for discriminating among the senses of a given target word based on the context in which it occurs. Instances of a word that occur in si...
Amruta Purandare
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Morphology for English and Inuktitut
We describe a simple unsupervised technique for learning morphology by identifying hubs in an automaton. For our purposes, a hub is a node in a graph with in-degree greater than o...
Howard Johnson, Joel D. Martin
NAACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Statistical Phrase-Based Translation
We propose a new phrase-based translation model and decoding algorithm that enables us to evaluate and compare several, previously proposed phrase-based translation models. Within...
Philipp Koehn, Franz Josef Och, Daniel Marcu