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NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Using Entity-Based Features to Model Coherence in Student Essays
We show how the Barzilay and Lapata entitybased coherence algorithm (2008) can be applied to a new, noisy data domain
Jill Burstein, Joel R. Tetreault, Slava Andreyev
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Extracting Parallel Sentences from Comparable Corpora using Document Level Alignment
The quality of a statistical machine translation (SMT) system is heavily dependent upon the amount of parallel sentences used in training. In recent years, there have been several...
Jason R. Smith, Chris Quirk, Kristina Toutanova
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Prenominal Modifier Ordering via Multiple Sequence Alignment
Producing a fluent ordering for a set of prenominal modifiers in a noun phrase (NP) is a problematic task for natural language generation and machine translation systems. We prese...
Aaron Dunlop, Margaret Mitchell, Brian Roark
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Syntactic/Semantic Structures for Textual Entailment Recognition
In this paper, we describe an approach based on off-the-shelf parsers and semantic resources for the Recognizing Textual Entailment (RTE) challenge that can be generally applied t...
Yashar Mehdad, Alessandro Moschitti, Fabio Massimo...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Using Mostly Native Data to Correct Errors in Learners' Writing
We present results from a range of experiments on article and preposition error correction for non-native speakers of English. We first compare a language model and errorspecific ...
Michael Gamon
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Joint Parsing and Alignment with Weakly Synchronized Grammars
Syntactic machine translation systems extract rules from bilingual, word-aligned, syntactically parsed text, but current systems for parsing and word alignment are at best cascade...
David Burkett, John Blitzer, Dan Klein
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Generalizing Syntactic Structures for Product Attribute Candidate Extraction
Noun phrases (NP) in a product review are always considered as the product attribute candidates in previous work. However, this method limits the recall of the product attribute e...
Yanyan Zhao, Bing Qin, Shen Hu, Ting Liu
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Integrating Joint n-gram Features into a Discriminative Training Framework
Phonetic string transduction problems, such as letter-to-phoneme conversion and name transliteration, have recently received much attention in the NLP community. In the past few y...
Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Colin Cherry, Grzegorz Kon...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Clinical Information Retrieval using Document and PICO Structure
In evidence-based medicine, clinical questions involve four aspects: Patient/Problem (P), Intervention (I), Comparison (C) and Outcome (O), known as PICO elements. In this paper w...
Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Cross-lingual Induction of Selectional Preferences with Bilingual Vector Spaces
We describe a cross-lingual method for the induction of selectional preferences for resourcepoor languages, where no accurate monolingual models are available. The method uses bil...
Yves Peirsman, Sebastian Padó