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EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
First- and Second-Order Expectation Semirings with Applications to Minimum-Risk Training on Translation Forests
Many statistical translation models can be regarded as weighted logical deduction. Under this paradigm, we use weights from the expectation semiring (Eisner, 2002), to compute fir...
Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner
EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
Perceptron Reranking for CCG Realization
This paper shows that discriminative reranking with an averaged perceptron model yields substantial improvements in realization quality with CCG. The paper confirms the utility of...
Michael White, Rajakrishnan Rajkumar
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EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
An Alternative to Head-Driven Approaches for Parsing a (Relatively) Free Word-Order Language
Applying statistical parsers developed for English to languages with freer wordorder has turned out to be harder than expected. This paper investigates the adequacy of different s...
Reut Tsarfaty, Khalil Sima'an, Remko Scha
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EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
A Syntactified Direct Translation Model with Linear-time Decoding
Recent syntactic extensions of statistical translation models work with a synchronous context-free or tree-substitution grammar extracted from an automatically parsed parallel cor...
Hany Hassan, Khalil Sima'an, Andy Way
EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
The role of named entities in Web People Search
The ambiguity of person names in the Web has become a new area of interest for NLP researchers. This challenging problem has been formulated as the task of clustering Web search r...
Javier Artiles, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzal...