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EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Classifying Relations for Biomedical Named Entity Disambiguation
Named entity disambiguation concerns linking a potentially ambiguous mention of named entity in text to an unambiguous identifier in a standard database. One approach to this task...
Xinglong Wang, Jun-ichi Tsujii, Sophia Ananiadou
EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
First- and Second-Order Expectation Semirings with Applications to Minimum-Risk Training on Translation Forests
Many statistical translation models can be regarded as weighted logical deduction. Under this paradigm, we use weights from the expectation semiring (Eisner, 2002), to compute fir...
Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner
EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Joint Optimization for Machine Translation System Combination
System combination has emerged as a powerful method for machine translation (MT). This paper pursues a joint optimization strategy for combining outputs from multiple MT systems, ...
Xiaodong He, Kristina Toutanova
EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
A Structural Support Vector Method for Extracting Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums
This paper addresses the issue of extracting contexts and answers of questions from post discussion of online forums. We propose a novel and unified model by customizing the struc...
Wen-Yun Yang, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin
EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Lattice-based System Combination for Statistical Machine Translation
Current system combination methods usually use confusion networks to find consensus translations among different systems. Requiring one-to-one mappings between the words in candid...
Yang Feng, Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu, Yajuan L&...