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2011
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The Arabic Online Commentary Dataset: an Annotated Dataset of Informal Arabic with High Dialectal Content
The written form of Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), differs quite a bit from the spoken dialects of Arabic, which are the true “native” languages of Arabic speakers used...
Omar Zaidan, Chris Callison-Burch
ACL
2011
14 years 2 months ago
Better Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine Translation: Controlling for Optimizer Instability
In statistical machine translation, a researcher seeks to determine whether some innovation (e.g., a new feature, model, or inference algorithm) improves translation quality in co...
Jonathan H. Clark, Chris Dyer, Alon Lavie, Noah A....
ACL
2011
14 years 2 months ago
Local and Global Algorithms for Disambiguation to Wikipedia
Disambiguating concepts and entities in a context sensitive way is a fundamental problem in natural language processing. The comprehensiveness of Wikipedia has made the online enc...
Lev-Arie Ratinov, Dan Roth, Doug Downey, Mike Ande...
ACL
2011
14 years 2 months ago
Binarized Forest to String Translation
Tree-to-string translation is syntax-aware and efficient but sensitive to parsing errors. Forestto-string translation approaches mitigate the risk of propagating parser errors in...
Hao Zhang, Licheng Fang, Peng Xu, Xiaoyun Wu
ACL
2011
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Classification of Medical Assertions in Clinical Notes
We present an NLP system that classifies the assertion type of medical problems in clinical notes used for the Fourth i2b2/VA Challenge. Our classifier uses a variety of linguisti...
Youngjun Kim, Ellen Riloff, Stèphane M. Mey...