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ACL
2012
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Automatic Event Extraction with Structured Preference Modeling
This paper presents a novel sequence labeling model based on the latent-variable semiMarkov conditional random fields for jointly extracting argument roles of events from texts. ...
Wei Lu, Dan Roth
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ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
PORT: a Precision-Order-Recall MT Evaluation Metric for Tuning
Many machine translation (MT) evaluation metrics have been shown to correlate better with human judgment than BLEU. In principle, tuning on these metrics should yield better syste...
Boxing Chen, Roland Kuhn, Samuel Larkin
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Improving the IBM Alignment Models Using Variational Bayes
Bayesian approaches have been shown to reduce the amount of overfitting that occurs when running the EM algorithm, by placing prior probabilities on the model parameters. We appl...
Darcey Riley, Daniel Gildea
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
A Broad-Coverage Normalization System for Social Media Language
Social media language contains huge amount and wide variety of nonstandard tokens, created both intentionally and unintentionally by the users. It is of crucial importance to norm...
Fei Liu, Fuliang Weng, Xiao Jiang
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ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Lemmatisation as a Tagging Task
We present a novel approach to the task of word lemmatisation. We formalise lemmatisation as a category tagging task, by describing how a word-to-lemma transformation rule can be ...
Andrea Gesmundo, Tanja Samardzic