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NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Arabic Diacritization through Full Morphological Tagging
We present a diacritization system for written Arabic which is based on a lexical resource. It combines a tagger and a lexeme language model. It improves on the best results repor...
Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Direct Translation Model 2
This paper presents a maximum entropy machine translation system using a minimal set of translation blocks (phrase-pairs). While recent phrase-based statistical machine translatio...
Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Roukos
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Combining Probability-Based Rankers for Action-Item Detection
This paper studies methods that automatically detect action-items in e-mail, an important category for assisting users in identifying new tasks, tracking ongoing ones, and searchi...
Paul N. Bennett, Jaime G. Carbonell
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
A Probabilistic Framework for Answer Selection in Question Answering
This paper describes a probabilistic answer selection framework for question answering. In contrast with previous work using individual resources such as ontologies and the Web to...
Jeongwoo Ko, Luo Si, Eric Nyberg
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Answer Typing for How-Questions
We introduce an answer typing strategy specific to quantifiable how questions. Using the web as a data source, we automatically collect answer units appropriate to a given how-q...
Christopher Pinchak, Shane Bergsma
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Randomized Decoding for Selection-and-Ordering Problems
The task of selecting and ordering information appears in multiple contexts in text generation and summarization. For instance, methods for title generation construct a headline b...
Pawan Deshpande, Regina Barzilay, David R. Karger
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Hybrid Models for Semantic Classification of Chinese Unknown Words
This paper addresses the problem of classifying Chinese unknown words into fine-grained semantic categories defined in a Chinese thesaurus. We describe three novel knowledge-based...
Xiaofei Lu
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Assessment of Student Translations for Foreign Language Tutoring
This paper introduces the use of speech translation technology for a new type of voice-interactive Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) application. We describe a computer game...
Chao Wang, Stephanie Seneff
NAACL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
A Cascaded Machine Learning Approach to Interpreting Temporal Expressions
A new architecture for identifying and interpreting temporal expressions is introduced, in which the large set of complex hand-crafted rules standard in systems for this task is r...
David Ahn, Joris van Rantwijk, Maarten de Rijke