ACL
2008
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2008
ACL
2008
15 years 11 days ago
2008
A well-recognized limitation of research on supervised sentence compression is the dearth of available training data. We propose a new and bountiful resource for such training dat...
ACL
2008
15 years 11 days ago
2008
In this paper we present research in which we apply (i) the kind of intrinsic evaluation metrics that are characteristic of current comparative HLT evaluation, and (ii) extrinsic,...
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ACL
2008
15 years 11 days ago
2008
This paper proposes a novel method to extract named entities including unfamiliar words which do not occur or occur few times in a training corpus using a large unannotated corpus...
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ACL
2008
15 years 11 days ago
2008
Word and n-gram posterior probabilities estimated on N-best hypotheses have been used to improve the performance of statistical machine translation (SMT) in a rescoring framework....
ACL
2008
15 years 11 days ago
2008
We present a novel fine-grained semantic representation of text and an approach to constructing it. This representation is largely extractable by today's technologies and fac...
ACL
2008
15 years 11 days ago
2008
This paper describes a novel event-matching strategy using features obtained from the transitive closure of dependency relations. The method yields a model capable of matching eve...
ACL
2008
15 years 11 days ago
2008
A desirable quality of a coreference resolution system is the ability to handle transitivity constraints, such that even if it places high likelihood on a particular mention being...
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ACL
2008
15 years 11 days ago
2008
This paper presents a partial matching strategy for phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT). Source phrases which do not appear in the training corpus can be translat...
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ACL
2008
15 years 11 days ago
2008
In spoken dialogue systems, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a formal framework for making dialogue management decisions under uncertainty, but effi...