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EMNLP
2009
15 years 2 months ago
Statistical Estimation of Word Acquisition with Application to Readability Prediction
Models of language learning play a central role in a wide range of applications: from psycholinguistic theories of how people acquire new word knowledge, to information systems th...
Paul Kidwell, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
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EMNLP
2006
15 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Discovery of a Statistical Verb Lexicon
This paper demonstrates how unsupervised techniques can be used to learn models of deep linguistic structure. Determining the semantic roles of a verb's dependents is an impo...
Trond Grenager, Christopher D. Manning
ACL
2006
15 years 6 months ago
A Discriminative Global Training Algorithm for Statistical MT
This paper presents a novel training algorithm for a linearly-scored block sequence translation model. The key component is a new procedure to directly optimize the global scoring...
Christoph Tillmann, Tong Zhang
MT
2006
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15 years 4 months ago
Dependency treelet translation: the convergence of statistical and example-based machine-translation?
We describe a novel approach to machine translation that combines the strengths of the two leading corpus-based approaches: Phrasal SMT and EBMT. We use a syntactically informed d...
Christopher Quirk, Arul Menezes
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Corpus structure, language models, and ad hoc information retrieval
Most previous work on the recently developed languagemodeling approach to information retrieval focuses on document-specific characteristics, and therefore does not take into acc...
Oren Kurland, Lillian Lee