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Transliteration Alignment
This paper studies transliteration alignment, its evaluation metrics and applications. We propose a new evaluation metric, alignment entropy, grounded on the information theory, t...
Vladimir Pervouchine, Haizhou Li, Bo Lin
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Where's the Verb? Correcting Machine Translation During Question Answering
When a multi-lingual question-answering (QA) system provides an answer that has been incorrectly translated, it is very likely to be regarded as irrelevant. In this paper, we prop...
Wei-Yun Ma, Kathy McKeown
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Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions
In this paper, we present a reinforcement learning approach for mapping natural language instructions to sequences of executable actions. We assume access to a reward function tha...
S. R. K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Luke S. Zettlemoyer,...
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Reducing Semantic Drift with Bagging and Distributional Similarity
Iterative bootstrapping algorithms are typically compared using a single set of handpicked seeds. However, we demonstrate that performance varies greatly depending on these seeds,...
Tara McIntosh, James R. Curran
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2009
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Coordinate Structure Analysis with Global Structural Constraints and Alignment-Based Local Features
We propose a hybrid approach to coordinate structure analysis that combines a simple grammar to ensure consistent global structure of coordinations in a sentence, and features bas...
Kazuo Hara, Masashi Shimbo, Hideharu Okuma, Yuji M...