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ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Multiple Treebanks for Parsing with Quasi-synchronous Grammars
We present a simple and effective framework for exploiting multiple monolingual treebanks with different annotation guidelines for parsing. Several types of transformation pattern...
Zhenghua Li, Ting Liu, Wanxiang Che
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
PDTB-style Discourse Annotation of Chinese Text
We describe a discourse annotation scheme for Chinese and report on the preliminary results. Our scheme, inspired by the Penn Discourse TreeBank (PDTB), adopts the lexically groun...
Yuping Zhou, Nianwen Xue
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
A Two-step Approach to Sentence Compression of Spoken Utterances
This paper presents a two-step approach to compress spontaneous spoken utterances. In the first step, we use a sequence labeling method to determine if a word in the utterance ca...
Dong Wang, Xian Qian, Yang Liu
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Attacking Parsing Bottlenecks with Unlabeled Data and Relevant Factorizations
Prepositions and conjunctions are two of the largest remaining bottlenecks in parsing. Across various existing parsers, these two categories have the lowest accuracies, and mistak...
Emily Pitler
ACL
2012
13 years 8 months ago
Personalized Normalization for a Multilingual Chat System
This paper describes the personalized normalization of a multilingual chat system that supports chatting in user defined short-forms or abbreviations. One of the major challenges ...
Ai Ti Aw, Lian Hau Lee