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EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality
We combine lexical, syntactic, and discourse features to produce a highly predictive model of human readers' judgments of text readability. This is the first study to take in...
Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Predicting Success in Machine Translation
The performance of machine translation systems varies greatly depending on the source and target languages involved. Determining the contribution of different characteristics of l...
Alexandra Birch, Miles Osborne, Philipp Koehn
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Transliteration as Constrained Optimization
This paper introduces a new method for identifying named-entity (NE) transliterations in bilingual corpora. Recent works have shown the advantage of discriminative approaches to t...
Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Sparse Multi-Scale Grammars for Discriminative Latent Variable Parsing
We present a discriminative, latent variable approach to syntactic parsing in which rules exist at multiple scales of refinement. The model is formally a latent variable CRF gramm...
Slav Petrov, Dan Klein
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Soft-Supervised Learning for Text Classification
We propose a new graph-based semisupervised learning (SSL) algorithm and demonstrate its application to document categorization. Each document is represented by a vertex within a ...
Amarnag Subramanya, Jeff Bilmes