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NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Multiple Aspect Ranking Using the Good Grief Algorithm
We address the problem of analyzing multiple related opinions in a text. For instance, in a restaurant review such opinions may include food, ambience and service. We formulate th...
Benjamin Snyder, Regina Barzilay
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised Resolution of Objects and Relations on the Web
The task of identifying synonymous relations and objects, or Synonym Resolution (SR), is critical for high-quality information extraction. The bulk of previous SR work assumed str...
Alexander Yates, Oren Etzioni
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Combining Outputs from Multiple Machine Translation Systems
Currently there are several approaches to machine translation (MT) based on different paradigms; e.g., phrasal, hierarchical and syntax-based. These three approaches yield similar...
Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Necip Fazil Ayan, Bing Xian...
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
To Memorize or to Predict: Prominence labeling in Conversational Speech
The immense prosodic variation of natural conversational speech makes it challenging to predict which words are prosodically prominent in this genre. In this paper, we examine a n...
Ani Nenkova, Jason Brenier, Anubha Kothari, Sasha ...
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Generating Case Markers in Machine Translation
We study the use of rich syntax-based statistical models for generating grammatical case for the purpose of machine translation from a language which does not indicate case explic...
Kristina Toutanova, Hisami Suzuki
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
A Log-Linear Block Transliteration Model based on Bi-Stream HMMs
We propose a novel HMM-based framework to accurately transliterate unseen named entities. The framework leverages features in letteralignment and letter n-gram pairs learned from ...
Bing Zhao, Nguyen Bach, Ian R. Lane, Stephan Vogel
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Cross-Instance Tuning of Unsupervised Document Clustering Algorithms
Damianos Karakos, Jason Eisner, Sanjeev Khudanpur,...
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
A Random Text Model for the Generation of Statistical Language Invariants
A novel random text generation model is introduced. Unlike in previous random text models, that mainly aim at producing a Zipfian distribution of word frequencies, our model also ...
Chris Biemann
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Multilingual Structural Projection across Interlinear Text
This paper explores the potential for annotating and enriching data for low-density languages via the alignment and projection of syntactic structure from parsed data for resource...
Fei Xia, William Lewis
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
High-Performance, Language-Independent Morphological Segmentation
This paper introduces an unsupervised morphological segmentation algorithm that shows robust performance for four languages with different levels of morphological complexity. In p...
Sajib Dasgupta, Vincent Ng