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EMNLP
2011
14 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Dependency Parsing without Gold Part-of-Speech Tags
We show that categories induced by unsupervised word clustering can surpass the performance of gold part-of-speech tags in dependency grammar induction. Unlike classic clustering ...
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Angel X. Ch...
EMNLP
2011
14 years 6 months ago
Lateen EM: Unsupervised Training with Multiple Objectives, Applied to Dependency Grammar Induction
We present new training methods that aim to mitigate local optima and slow convergence in unsupervised training by using additional imperfect objectives. In its simplest form, lat...
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jura...
EMNLP
2011
14 years 6 months ago
Training a Parser for Machine Translation Reordering
We propose a simple training regime that can improve the extrinsic performance of a parser, given only a corpus of sentences and a way to automatically evaluate the extrinsic qual...
Jason Katz-Brown, Slav Petrov, Ryan T. McDonald, F...
EMNLP
2011
14 years 6 months ago
Robust Disambiguation of Named Entities in Text
Johannes Hoffart, Mohamed Amir Yosef, Ilaria Bordi...