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ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Lemmatisation as a Tagging Task
We present a novel approach to the task of word lemmatisation. We formalise lemmatisation as a category tagging task, by describing how a word-to-lemma transformation rule can be ...
Andrea Gesmundo, Tanja Samardzic
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Tense and Aspect Error Correction for ESL Learners Using Global Context
As the number of learners of English is constantly growing, automatic error correction of ESL learners’ writing is an increasingly active area of research. However, most researc...
Toshikazu Tajiri, Mamoru Komachi, Yuji Matsumoto
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Fast Online Training with Frequency-Adaptive Learning Rates for Chinese Word Segmentation and New Word Detection
We present a joint model for Chinese word segmentation and new word detection. We present high dimensional new features, including word-based features and enriched edge (label-tra...
Xu Sun, Houfeng Wang, Wenjie Li
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
A Web-based Evaluation Framework for Spatial Instruction-Giving Systems
We demonstrate a web-based environment for development and testing of different pedestrian route instruction-giving systems. The environment contains a City Model, a TTS interface...
Srinivasan Janarthanam, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Tweet Recommendation with Graph Co-Ranking
As one of the most popular micro-blogging services, Twitter attracts millions of users, producing millions of tweets daily. Shared information through this service spreads faster ...
Rui Yan, Mirella Lapata, Xiaoming Li
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
A Feature-Rich Constituent Context Model for Grammar Induction
We present LLCCM, a log-linear variant of the constituent context model (CCM) of grammar induction. LLCCM retains the simplicity of the original CCM but extends robustly to long s...
Dave Golland, John DeNero, Jakob Uszkoreit
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Mixing Multiple Translation Models in Statistical Machine Translation
Statistical machine translation is often faced with the problem of combining training data from many diverse sources into a single translation model which then has to translate se...
Majid Razmara, George Foster, Baskaran Sankaran, A...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
A Corpus of Textual Revisions in Second Language Writing
This paper describes the creation of the first large-scale corpus containing drafts and final versions of essays written by non-native speakers, with the sentences aligned acros...
John Lee, Jonathan Webster
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Extracting Narrative Timelines as Temporal Dependency Structures
We propose a new approach to characterizing the timeline of a text: temporal dependency structures, where all the events of a narrative are linked via partial ordering relations l...
Oleksandr Kolomiyets, Steven Bethard, Marie-Franci...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Labeling Documents with Timestamps: Learning from their Time Expressions
Temporal reasoners for document understanding typically assume that a document’s creation date is known. Algorithms to ground relative time expressions and order events often re...
Nathanael Chambers