This paper compares different bilexical tree-based models for bilingual alignment. EM training for the new model benefits from the dynamic programming "hook trick". The ...
In this paper we argue that comparative evaluation in anaphora resolution has to be performed using the same pre-processing tools and on the same set of data. The paper proposes a...
This paper describes a method for learning the countability preferences of English nouns from raw text corpora. The method maps the corpus-attested lexico-syntactic properties of ...
For ambiguous sentences, traditional semantics construction produces large numbers of higher-order formulas, which must then be -reduced individually. Underspecified versions can ...
Manuel Bodirsky, Katrin Erk, Alexander Koller, Joa...
Word alignment plays a crucial role in statistical machine translation. Word-aligned corpora have been found to be an excellent source of translation-related knowledge. We present...