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EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
Polylingual Topic Models
Topic models are a useful tool for analyzing large text collections, but have previously been applied in only monolingual, or at most bilingual, contexts. Meanwhile, massive colle...
David M. Mimno, Hanna M. Wallach, Jason Naradowsky...
EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
Improved Statistical Machine Translation Using Monolingually-Derived Paraphrases
Untranslated words still constitute a major problem for Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), and current SMT systems are limited by the quantity of parallel training texts. Augm...
Yuval Marton, Chris Callison-Burch, Philip Resnik
EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
Semi-supervised Speech Act Recognition in Emails and Forums
In this paper, we present a semi-supervised method for automatic speech act recognition in email and forums. The major challenge of this task is due to lack of labeled data in the...
Minwoo Jeong, Chin-Yew Lin, Gary Geunbae Lee
EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
Acquiring Translation Equivalences of Multiword Expressions by Normalized Correlation Frequencies
In this paper, we present an algorithm for extracting translations of any given multiword expression from parallel corpora. Given a multiword expression to be translated, the meth...
Ming-Hong Bai, Jia-Ming You, Keh-Jiann Chen, Jason...
EMNLP
2009
14 years 8 months ago
It's Not You, it's Me: Detecting Flirting and its Misperception in Speed-Dates
Automatically detecting human social intentions from spoken conversation is an important task for dialogue understanding. Since the social intentions of the speaker may differ fro...
Rajesh Ranganath, Dan Jurafsky, Dan McFarland