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ACL
2012
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Assessing the Effect of Inconsistent Assessors on Summarization Evaluation
We investigate the consistency of human assessors involved in summarization evaluation to understand its effect on system ranking and automatic evaluation techniques. Using Text A...
Karolina Owczarzak, Peter A. Rankel, Hoa Trang Dan...
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Historical Analysis of Legal Opinions with a Sparse Mixed-Effects Latent Variable Model
We propose a latent variable model to enhance historical analysis of large corpora. This work extends prior work in topic modelling by incorporating metadata, and the interactions...
William Yang Wang, Elijah Mayfield, Suresh Naidu, ...
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Enhancing Statistical Machine Translation with Character Alignment
The dominant practice of statistical machine translation (SMT) uses the same Chinese word segmentation specification in both alignment and translation rule induction steps in buil...
Ning Xi, Guangchao Tang, Xinyu Dai, Shujian Huang,...
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ACL
2012
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Cross-lingual Parse Disambiguation based on Semantic Correspondence
We present a system for cross-lingual parse disambiguation, exploiting the assumption that the meaning of a sentence remains unchanged during translation and the fact that differe...
Lea Frermann, Francis Bond
ACL
2012
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Reducing Wrong Labels in Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction
In relation extraction, distant supervision seeks to extract relations between entities from text by using a knowledge base, such as Freebase, as a source of supervision. When a s...
Shingo Takamatsu, Issei Sato, Hiroshi Nakagawa