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ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Robust Conversion of CCG Derivations to Phrase Structure Trees
We propose an improved, bottom-up method for converting CCG derivations into PTB-style phrase structure trees. In contrast with past work (Clark and Curran, 2009), which used simp...
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Dan Klein, James R. Curran
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Social Information in Grounded Language Learning via Grammatical Reduction
This paper uses an unsupervised model of grounded language acquisition to study the role that social cues play in language acquisition. The input to the model consists of (orthogr...
Mark Johnson, Katherine Demuth, Michael C. Frank
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Event Linking: Grounding Event Reference in a News Archive
Interpreting news requires identifying its constituent events. Events are complex linguistically and ontologically, so disambiguating their reference is challenging. We introduce ...
Joel Nothman, Matthew Honnibal, Ben Hachey, James ...
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Learning High-Level Planning from Text
Comprehending action preconditions and effects is an essential step in modeling the dynamics of the world. In this paper, we express the semantics of precondition relations extrac...
S. R. K. Branavan, Nate Kushman, Tao Lei, Regina B...
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Unsupervised Morphology Rivals Supervised Morphology for Arabic MT
If unsupervised morphological analyzers could approach the effectiveness of supervised ones, they would be a very attractive choice for improving MT performance on low-resource in...
David Stallard, Jacob Devlin, Michael Kayser, Yoon...