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2008
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Multilingual Harvesting of Cross-Cultural Stereotypes
People rarely articulate explicitly what a native speaker of a language is already assumed to know. So to acquire the stereotypical knowledge that underpins much of what is said i...
Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao, Guofu Li
ACL
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Unsupervised Translation Induction for Chinese Abbreviations using Monolingual Corpora
Chinese abbreviations are widely used in modern Chinese texts. Compared with English abbreviations (which are mostly acronyms and truncations), the formation of Chinese abbreviati...
Zhifei Li, David Yarowsky
ACL
2008
15 years 1 months ago
Solving Relational Similarity Problems Using the Web as a Corpus
We present a simple linguistically-motivated method for characterizing the semantic relations that hold between two nouns. The approach leverages the vast size of the Web in order...
Preslav Nakov, Marti A. Hearst
ACL
2008
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Combining Speech Retrieval Results with Generalized Additive Models
Rapid and inexpensive techniques for automatic transcription of speech have the potential to dramatically expand the types of content to which information retrieval techniques can...
J. Scott Olsson, Douglas W. Oard
ACL
2008
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Simple Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing
We present a simple and effective semisupervised method for training dependency parsers. We focus on the problem of lexical representation, introducing features that incorporate w...
Terry Koo, Xavier Carreras, Michael Collins