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ACL
2008
15 years 4 months ago
Better Alignments = Better Translations?
Automatic word alignment is a key step in training statistical machine translation systems. Despite much recent work on word alignment methods, alignment accuracy increases often ...
Kuzman Ganchev, João Graça, Ben Task...
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ACL
2008
15 years 4 months ago
Inducing Gazetteers for Named Entity Recognition by Large-Scale Clustering of Dependency Relations
We propose using large-scale clustering of dependency relations between verbs and multiword nouns (MNs) to construct a gazetteer for named entity recognition (NER). Since dependen...
Jun'ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa
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EMNLP
2007
15 years 4 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Diachronic Phonology
We present a probabilistic model of diachronic phonology in which individual word forms undergo stochastic edits along the branches of a phylogenetic tree. Our approach allows us ...
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Percy Liang,...
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HCI
2007
15 years 4 months ago
Learning Topologies of Situated Public Displays by Observing Implicit User Interactions
In this paper we present a procedure to learn a topological model of Situated Public Displays from data of people traveling between these displays. This model encompasses the dista...
Hans Jörg Müller, Antonio Krüger
ICMLA
2007
15 years 4 months ago
Automatic medical coding of patient records via weighted ridge regression
In this paper, we apply weighted ridge regression to tackle the highly unbalanced data issue in automatic largescale ICD-9 coding of medical patient records. Since most of the ICD...
Jian-Wu Xu, Shipeng Yu, Jinbo Bi, Lucian Vlad Lita...