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ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Decoding Running Key Ciphers
There has been recent interest in the problem of decoding letter substitution ciphers using techniques inspired by natural language processing. We consider a different type of cla...
Sravana Reddy, Kevin Knight
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Akamon: An Open Source Toolkit for Tree/Forest-Based Statistical Machine Translation
We describe Akamon, an open source toolkit for tree and forest-based statistical machine translation (Liu et al., 2006; Mi et al., 2008; Mi and Huang, 2008). Akamon implements all...
Xianchao Wu, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun-ichi Tsujii
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Joint Feature Selection in Distributed Stochastic Learning for Large-Scale Discriminative Training in SMT
With a few exceptions, discriminative training in statistical machine translation (SMT) has been content with tuning weights for large feature sets on small development data. Evid...
Patrick Simianer, Stefan Riezler, Chris Dyer
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Large-Scale Syntactic Language Modeling with Treelets
We propose a simple generative, syntactic language model that conditions on overlapping windows of tree context (or treelets) in the same way that n-gram language models condition...
Adam Pauls, Dan Klein
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
DOMCAT: A Bilingual Concordancer for Domain-Specific Computer Assisted Translation
In this paper, we propose a web-based bilingual concordancer, DOMCAT 1 , for domain-specific computer assisted translation. Given a multi-word expression as a query, the system in...
Ming-Hong Bai, Yu-Ming Hsieh, Keh-Jiann Chen, Jaso...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Text Segmentation by Language Using Minimum Description Length
The problem addressed in this paper is to segment a given multilingual document into segments for each language and then identify the language of each segment. The problem was mot...
Hiroshi Yamaguchi, Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Fine Granular Aspect Analysis using Latent Structural Models
In this paper, we present a structural learning model for joint sentiment classification and aspect analysis of text at various levels of granularity. Our model aims to identify ...
Lei Fang, Minlie Huang
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
A Computational Approach to the Automation of Creative Naming
In this paper, we propose a computational approach to generate neologisms consisting of homophonic puns and metaphors based on the category of the service to be named and the prop...
Gözde Özbal, Carlo Strapparava
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
MIX Is Not a Tree-Adjoining Language
The language MIX consists of all strings over the three-letter alphabet {a, b, c} that contain an equal number of occurrences of each letter. We prove Joshi’s (1985) conjecture ...
Makoto Kanazawa, Sylvain Salvati
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Toward Automatically Assembling Hittite-Language Cuneiform Tablet Fragments into Larger Texts
This paper presents the problem within Hittite and Ancient Near Eastern studies of fragmented and damaged cuneiform texts, and proposes to use well-known text classification metr...
Stephen Tyndall