NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We investigate in this paper the adequate unit of analysis for Arabic Mention Detection. We experiment different segmentation schemes with various feature-sets. Results show that ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
The distortion cost function used in Mosesstyle machine translation systems has two flaws. First, it does not estimate the future cost of known required moves, thus increasing sea...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
In this paper we report a behavioural experiment documenting that different lexicosyntactic formulations of the discourse relation of causation are deemed more or less acceptable ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present a Gaussian Mixture model for detecting different types of figurative language in context. We show that this model performs well when the parameters are estimated in an ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper address the problem of entity linking. Specifically, given an entity mentioned in unstructured texts, the task is to link this entity with an entry stored in the existi...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present a new method that compresses sentences by removing words. In a first stage, it generates candidate compressions by removing branches from the source sentence's dep...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
In a corpus of expert tutoring dialogue, conversation that is considered to be "off topic" (non-pedagogical) according to a previous coding scheme is explored for its va...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper proposes a general learning framework for a class of problems that require learning over latent intermediate representations. Many natural language processing (NLP) dec...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We describe a synchronous parsing algorithm that is based on two successive monolingual parses of an input sentence pair. Although the worst-case complexity of this algorithm is a...