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14 years 11 months ago
Mind the Gap: Dangers of Divorcing Evaluations of Summary Content from Linguistic Quality
In this paper, we analyze the state of current human and automatic evaluation of topic-focused summarization in the Document Understanding Conference main task for 2005-2007. The ...
John M. Conroy, Hoa Trang Dang
COLING
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Normalizing SMS: are Two Metaphors Better than One ?
Electronic written texts used in computermediated interactions (e-mails, blogs, chats, etc) present major deviations from the norm of the language. This paper presents an comparat...
Catherine Kobus, François Yvon, Géra...
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COLING
2008
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Regenerating Hypotheses for Statistical Machine Translation
This paper studies three techniques that improve the quality of N-best hypotheses through additional regeneration process. Unlike the multi-system consensus approach where multipl...
Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li
COLING
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Almost Flat Functional Semantics for Speech Translation
We introduce a novel semantic representation formalism, Almost Flat Functional semantics (AFF), which is designed as an intelligent compromise between linguistically motivated pre...
Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Beth Ann Hockey,...
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COLING
2008
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Two-Phased Event Relation Acquisition: Coupling the Relation-Oriented and Argument-Oriented Approaches
Addressing the task of acquiring semantic relations between events from a large corpus, we first argue the complementarity between the pattern-based relation-oriented approach and...
Shuya Abe, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto