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NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Treebank Query System Based on an Extracted Tree Grammar
Recent work has proposed the use of an extracted tree grammar as the basis for treebank analysis and search queries, in which queries are stated over the elementary trees, which a...
Seth Kulick, Ann Bies
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Unsupervised Syntactic Alignment with Inversion Transduction Grammars
Syntactic machine translation systems currently use word alignments to infer syntactic correspondences between the source and target languages. Instead, we propose an unsupervised...
Adam Pauls, Dan Klein, David Chiang, Kevin Knight
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Good Question! Statistical Ranking for Question Generation
We address the challenge of automatically generating questions from reading materials for educational practice and assessment. Our approach is to overgenerate questions, then rank...
Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Extending the METEOR Machine Translation Evaluation Metric to the Phrase Level
This paper presents METEOR-NEXT, an extended version of the METEOR metric designed to have high correlation with postediting measures of machine translation quality. We describe c...
Michael J. Denkowski, Alon Lavie
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Inducing Synchronous Grammars with Slice Sampling
This paper describes an efficient sampler for synchronous grammar induction under a nonparametric Bayesian prior. Inspired by ideas from slice sampling, our sampler is able to dra...
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Softmax-Margin CRFs: Training Log-Linear Models with Cost Functions
We describe a method of incorporating taskspecific cost functions into standard conditional log-likelihood (CLL) training of linear structured prediction models. Recently introduc...
Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Enlarged Search Space for SITG Parsing
Guillem Gascó i Mora, Joan-Andreu Sá...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Using Confusion Networks for Speech Summarization
For extractive meeting summarization, previous studies have shown performance degradation when using speech recognition transcripts because of the relatively high speech recogniti...
Shasha Xie, Yang Liu
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Urdu Word Segmentation
Word Segmentation is the foremost obligatory task in almost all the NLP applications where the initial phase requires tokenization of input into words. Urdu is amongst the Asian l...
Nadir Durrani, Sarmad Hussain
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Investigations into the Crandem Approach to Word Recognition
We suggest improvements to a previously proposed framework for integrating Conditional Random Fields and Hidden Markov Models, dubbed a Crandem system (2009). The previous authors...
Rohit Prabhavalkar, Preethi Jyothi, William Hartma...