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EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 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
EMNLP
2006
14 years 11 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
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ACL
2006
14 years 11 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
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MT
2006
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14 years 10 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 3 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