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2008
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Searching Questions by Identifying Question Topic and Question Focus
This paper is concerned with the problem of question search. In question search, given a question as query, we are to return questions semantically equivalent or close to the quer...
Huizhong Duan, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin, Yong Yu
ACL
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Multi-Task Active Learning for Linguistic Annotations
We extend the classical single-task active learning (AL) approach. In the multi-task active learning (MTAL) paradigm, we select examples for several annotation tasks rather than f...
Roi Reichart, Katrin Tomanek, Udo Hahn, Ari Rappop...
ACL
2008
15 years 1 months ago
A Discriminative Latent Variable Model for Statistical Machine Translation
Large-scale discriminative machine translation promises to further the state-of-the-art, but has failed to deliver convincing gains over current heuristic frequency count systems....
Phil Blunsom, Trevor Cohn, Miles Osborne
ACL
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Learning Document-Level Semantic Properties from Free-Text Annotations
This paper demonstrates a new method for leveraging unstructured annotations to infer semantic document properties. We consider the domain of product reviews, which are often anno...
S. R. K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Jacob Eisenstein, Re...
ACL
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Mining Parenthetical Translations from the Web by Word Alignment
Documents in languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean sometimes annotate terms with their translations in English inside a pair of parentheses. We present a method to extrac...
Dekang Lin, Shaojun Zhao, Benjamin Van Durme, Mari...