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EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Indirect-HMM-based Hypothesis Alignment for Combining Outputs from Machine Translation Systems
This paper presents a new hypothesis alignment method for combining outputs of multiple machine translation (MT) systems. An indirect hidden Markov model (IHMM) is proposed to add...
Xiaodong He, Mei Yang, Jianfeng Gao, Patrick Nguye...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Stacking Dependency Parsers
We explore a stacked framework for learning to predict dependency structures for natural language sentences. A typical approach in graph-based dependency parsing has been to assum...
André F. T. Martins, Dipanjan Das, Noah A. ...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Lattice-based Minimum Error Rate Training for Statistical Machine Translation
Minimum Error Rate Training (MERT) is an effective means to estimate the feature function weights of a linear model such that an automated evaluation criterion for measuring syste...
Wolfgang Macherey, Franz Josef Och, Ignacio Thayer...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Scalable Language Processing Algorithms for the Masses: A Case Study in Computing Word Co-occurrence Matrices with MapReduce
This paper explores the challenge of scaling up language processing algorithms to increasingly large datasets. While cluster computing has been available in commercial environment...
Jimmy J. Lin
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Selecting Sentences for Answering Complex Questions
Complex questions that require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple documents can be seen as a kind of topicoriented, informative multi-document summarization. I...
Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty