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ekbal-etal-2008-named | https://aclanthology.org/I08-2077 | Named Entity Recognition in Bengali: A Conditional Random Field Approach | This paper reports about the development of a Named Entity Recognition (NER) system for Bengali using the statistical Conditional Random Fields (CRFs). The system makes use of the different contextual information of the words along with the variety of features that are helpful in predicting the various named entity (NE... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
goodman-1997-global | https://aclanthology.org/W97-0302 | Global Thresholding and Multiple-Pass Parsing | We present a variation on classic beam thresholding techniques that is up to an order of magnitude faster than the traditional method, at the same performance level. We also present a new thresholding technique, global thresholding, which, combined with the new beam thresholding, gives an additional factor of two impro... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1997 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bird-2020-sparse | https://aclanthology.org/2020.cl-4.1 | Sparse Transcription | The transcription bottleneck is often cited as a major obstacle for efforts to document the world's endangered languages and supply them with language technologies. One solution is to extend methods from automatic speech recognition and machine translation, and recruit linguists to provide narrow phonetic transcription... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | I am indebted to the Bininj people of the Kuwarddewardde "Stone Country" in Northern Australia for the opportunity to live and work in their community, where I gained many insights in the course of learning to transcribe Kunwinjku. Thanks to Steve Abney, Laurent Besacier, Mark Liberman, Maïa Ponsonnet, to my colleagues... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
schaler-2004-certified | https://aclanthology.org/2004.tc-1.15 | The Certified Localisation Professional (CLP) | The Institute of Localisation Professionals (TILP) was established in 2002 as a non-profit organisation and in 2003 merged with the US-based Professional Association for Localization (PAL). TILP's objective is to develop professional practices in localisation globally. TILP is owned by its individual members. It coordi... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The support received by the European Union's ADAPT Programme for the development of the initial CLP project (A-1997-Irl-551) is acknowledged. This project was coordinated by the LRC. The project partners were: FÁS (Irish National Training Agency), CATT (Siemens Nixdorf Training Centre) and TELSI Ireland, supported by a... | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
lalor-etal-2019-learning | https://aclanthology.org/D19-1434 | Learning Latent Parameters without Human Response Patterns: Item Response Theory with Artificial Crowds | Incorporating Item Response Theory (IRT) into NLP tasks can provide valuable information about model performance and behavior. Traditionally, IRT models are learned using human response pattern (RP) data, presenting a significant bottleneck for large data sets like those required for training deep neural networks (DNNs... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. This work was supported in part by the HSR&D award IIR 1I01HX001457 from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). We also acknowledge the support of LM012817 from the National Institutes of Health. This work was also supported in part by... | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
dunning-1993-accurate | https://aclanthology.org/J93-1003 | Accurate Methods for the Statistics of Surprise and Coincidence | Much work has been done on the statistical analysis of text. In some cases reported in the literature, inappropriate statistical methods have been used, and statistical significance of results have not been addressed. In particular, asymptotic normality assumptions have often been used unjustifiably, leading to flawed ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1993 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
li-jurafsky-2015-multi | https://aclanthology.org/D15-1200 | Do Multi-Sense Embeddings Improve Natural Language Understanding? | Learning a distinct representation for each sense of an ambiguous word could lead to more powerful and fine-grained models of vector-space representations. Yet while 'multi-sense' methods have been proposed and tested on artificial wordsimilarity tasks, we don't know if they improve real natural language understanding ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank Sam Bowman, Ignacio Cases, Kevin Gu, Gabor Angeli, Sida Wang, Percy Liang and other members of the Stanford NLP group, as well as anonymous reviewers for their helpful advice on various aspects of this work. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the NSF via award IIS-1514268, the Defense Advan... | 2015 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
walinska-potoniec-2020-urszula | https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.161 | Urszula Wali\'nska at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Fusion of Text and Image Features Using LSTM and VGG16 for Memotion Analysis | In the paper, we describe the Urszula Walińska's entry to the SemEval-2020 Task 8: Memotion Analysis. The sentiment analysis of memes task, is motivated by a pervasive problem of offensive content spread in social media up to the present time. In fact, memes are an important medium of expressing opinion and emotions, t... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Urszula Walińska executed the research as a part of master thesis project under the supervision of Jedrzej Potoniec. This work was partially funded by project 0311/SBAD/0678. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
rudinger-etal-2018-neural | https://aclanthology.org/D18-1114 | Neural-Davidsonian Semantic Proto-role Labeling | We present a model for semantic proto-role labeling (SPRL) using an adapted bidirectional LSTM encoding strategy that we call Neural-Davidsonian: predicate-argument structure is represented as pairs of hidden states corresponding to predicate and argument head tokens of the input sequence. We demonstrate: (1) state-of-... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was supported by the JHU HLT-COE, DARPA AIDA, and NSF GRFP (Grant No. DGE-1232825). The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes. The views and conclusions contained in this publication are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representi... | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
sheikh-etal-2016-diachronic | https://aclanthology.org/L16-1609 | How Diachronic Text Corpora Affect Context based Retrieval of OOV Proper Names for Audio News | Out-Of-Vocabulary (OOV) words missed by Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) systems can be recovered with the help of topic and semantic context of the OOV words captured from a diachronic text corpus. In this paper we investigate how the choice of documents for the diachronic text corpora affects th... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work is funded by the ContNomina project supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR) under the contract ANR-12-BS02-0009. | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tripodi-etal-2019-tracing | https://aclanthology.org/W19-4715 | Tracing Antisemitic Language Through Diachronic Embedding Projections: France 1789-1914 | We investigate some aspects of the history of antisemitism in France, one of the cradles of modern antisemitism, using diachronic word embeddings. We constructed a large corpus of French books and periodicals issues that contain a keyword related to Jews and performed a diachronic word embedding over the 1789-1914 peri... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors of this work have received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 732942. The experiments have been run on the SCSCF cluster of Ca' Foscari University. | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
popat-etal-2013-haves | https://aclanthology.org/P13-1041 | The Haves and the Have-Nots: Leveraging Unlabelled Corpora for Sentiment Analysis | Expensive feature engineering based on WordNet senses has been shown to be useful for document level sentiment classification. A plausible reason for such a performance improvement is the reduction in data sparsity. However, such a reduction could be achieved with a lesser effort through the means of syntagma based wor... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
aji-etal-2020-neural | https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.688 | In Neural Machine Translation, What Does Transfer Learning Transfer? | Transfer learning improves quality for lowresource machine translation, but it is unclear what exactly it transfers. We perform several ablation studies that limit information transfer, then measure the quality impact across three language pairs to gain a black-box understanding of transfer learning. Word embeddings pl... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was performed using resources provided by the Cambridge Service for Data Driven Discovery (CSD3) operated by the University of Cambridge Research Computing Service (http: //www.csd3.cam.ac.uk/), provided by Dell EMC and Intel using Tier-2 funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ca... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
abed-reiter-2020-arabic | https://aclanthology.org/2020.inlg-1.2 | Arabic NLG Language Functions | The Arabic language has very limited supports from NLG researchers. In this paper, we explain the challenges of the core grammar, provide a lexical resource, and implement the first language functions for the Arabic language. We did a human evaluation to evaluate our functions in generating sentences from the NADA Corp... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
musha-1986-new | https://aclanthology.org/C86-1111 | A New Predictive Analyzer of English | Aspects of syntactic predictions made during the recognition of English sentences are investigated. We reinforce Kuno's original predictive analyzer[i] by introducing five types of predictions. For each type of prediction, we discuss and present its necessity, its description method, and recognition mechanism. We make ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | I would especially like to thank my adviser, Prof. A. Yonezawa of Tokyo Institute of Technology, for his valuable comments on this researdl and encouragement. I also thank the members of Yonezawa Lab. for their comments on my research. I also give my special thanks to the managers of Resource Sharing Company who allowe... | 1986 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
holderness-etal-2018-analysis | https://aclanthology.org/W18-5615 | Analysis of Risk Factor Domains in Psychosis Patient Health Records | Readmission after discharge from a hospital is disruptive and costly, regardless of the reason. However, it can be particularly problematic for psychiatric patients, so predicting which patients may be readmitted is critically important but also very difficult. Clinical narratives in psychiatric electronic health recor... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (grant no. 5R01MH109687 to Mei-Hua Hall). We would also like to thank the LOUHI 2018 Workshop reviewers for their constructive and helpful comments. | 2018 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
mieskes-2017-quantitative | https://aclanthology.org/W17-1603 | A Quantitative Study of Data in the NLP community | We present results on a quantitative analysis of publications in the NLP domain on collecting, publishing and availability of research data. We find that a wide range of publications rely on data crawled from the web, but few give details on how potentially sensitive data was treated. Additionally, we find that while l... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was partially supported by the DFGfunded research training group "Adaptive Preparation of Information from Heterogeneous Sources" (AIPHES, GRK 1994/1). We would like to thank the reviewers for their valuable comments that helped to considerably improve the paper. | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
oepen-etal-2016-opt | https://aclanthology.org/K16-2002 | OPT: Oslo--Potsdam--Teesside. Pipelining Rules, Rankers, and Classifier Ensembles for Shallow Discourse Parsing | The OPT submission to the Shared Task of the 2016 Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) implements a 'classic' pipeline architecture, combining binary classification of (candidate) explicit connectives, heuristic rules for non-explicit discourse relations, ranking and 'editing' of syntactic constituents for a... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We are indebted to Te Rutherford of Brandeis University for his effort in preparing data and infrastructure for the Task, as well as for shepherding our team and everyone else through its various stages. We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers for comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
sikos-pado-2018-using | https://aclanthology.org/W18-3813 | Using Embeddings to Compare FrameNet Frames Across Languages | Much of the recent interest in Frame Semantics is fueled by the substantial extent of its applicability across languages. At the same time, lexicographic studies have found that the applicability of individual frames can be diminished by cross-lingual divergences regarding polysemy, syntactic valency, and lexicalizatio... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
lee-etal-2005-zero | https://aclanthology.org/I05-1052 | Why Is Zero Marking Important in Korean? | This paper argues for the necessity of zero pronoun annotations in Korean treebanks and provides an annotation scheme that can be used to develop a gold standard for testing different anaphor resolution algorithms. Relevant issues of pronoun annotation will be discussed by comparing the Penn Korean Treebank with zero p... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2005 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
johnson-watanabe-1990-relational | https://aclanthology.org/W90-0123 | Relational-Grammar-Based Generation in the JETS Japanese-English Machine Translation System | This paper describes the design and functioning of the English generation phase in JETS, a limited transfer, Japanese-English machine translation system that is loosely based on the linguistic framework of relational grammar. To facilitate the development of relational-grammar-based generators, we have built an NL-and-... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1990 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
wise-2014-keynote | https://aclanthology.org/W14-4101 | Keynote: Data Archeology: A theory informed approach to analyzing data traces of social interaction in large scale learning environments | Data archeology is a theoreticallyinformed approach to make sense of the digital artifacts left behind by a prior learning "civilization." Critical elements include use of theoretical learning models to construct analytic metrics, attention to temporality as a means to reconstruct individual and collective trajectories... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
brants-xu-2009-distributed | https://aclanthology.org/N09-4002 | Distributed Language Models | Language models are used in a wide variety of natural language applications, including machine translation, speech recognition, spelling correction, optical character recognition, etc. Recent studies have shown that more data is better data, and bigger language models are better language models: the authors found nearl... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
larson-etal-2019-outlier | https://aclanthology.org/N19-1051 | Outlier Detection for Improved Data Quality and Diversity in Dialog Systems | In a corpus of data, outliers are either errors: mistakes in the data that are counterproductive, or are unique: informative samples that improve model robustness. Identifying outliers can lead to better datasets by (1) removing noise in datasets and (2) guiding collection of additional data to fill gaps. However, the ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors thank Yiping Kang, Yunqi Zhang, Joseph Peper, and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and feedback. | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhai-etal-2021-script | https://aclanthology.org/2021.starsem-1.18 | Script Parsing with Hierarchical Sequence Modelling | Scripts (Schank and Abelson, 1977) capture commonsense knowledge about everyday activities and their participants. Script knowledge has been shown to be useful in a number of NLP tasks, such as referent prediction, discourse classification, and story generation. A crucial step for the exploitation of script knowledge i... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Simon Ostermann for providing the data from his experiments and his help all along the way of re-implementing his model. We thank Vera Demberg for the useful comments and suggestions. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for the valuable comments. This research was funded by the German Research Foundation (DF... | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ruiter-etal-2019-self | https://aclanthology.org/P19-1178 | Self-Supervised Neural Machine Translation | We present a simple new method where an emergent NMT system is used for simultaneously selecting training data and learning internal NMT representations. This is done in a self-supervised way without parallel data, in such a way that both tasks enhance each other during training. The method is language independent, int... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The project on which this paper is based was partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research under the funding code 01IW17001 (Deeplee) and by the Leibniz Gemeinschaft via the SAW-2016-ZPID-2 project (CLuBS). Responsibility for the content of this publication is with the authors. | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
nie-etal-2020-adversarial | https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.441 | Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding | We introduce a new large-scale NLI benchmark dataset, collected via an iterative, adversarial human-and-model-in-the-loop procedure. We show that training models on this new dataset leads to state-of-the-art performance on a variety of popular NLI benchmarks, while posing a more difficult challenge with its new test se... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | YN interned at Facebook. YN and MB were sponsored by DARPA MCS Grant #N66001-19-2-4031, ONR Grant #N00014-18-1-2871, and DARPA YFA17-D17AP00022. Special thanks to Sam Bowman for comments on an earlier draft. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
nn-1997-neocortech | https://aclanthology.org/1997.mtsummit-exhibits.11 | NeocorTech LLC | NEOCORTECH is the premier provider of Japanese communication solutions for computer users outside of Japan, using Microsoft Windows 32-bit operating systems. In fact, only NeocorTech's machine translation (MT) products have been awarded the coveted Microsoft Windows 95 compatibility logo. Long heralded as the final sol... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1997 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
grouin-2008-certification | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/280_paper.pdf | Certification and Cleaning up of a Text Corpus: Towards an Evaluation of the ``Grammatical'' Quality of a Corpus | We present in this article the methods we used for obtaining measures to ensure the quality and well-formedness of a text corpus. These measures allow us to determine the compatibility of a corpus with the treatments we want to apply on it. We called this method "certification of corpus". These measures are based upon ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work has been done within the framework of the SEVEN 8 project, held by the ANR (project number: ANR-05-RNTL-02204 (S0604149W)). | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
grangier-auli-2018-quickedit | https://aclanthology.org/N18-1025 | QuickEdit: Editing Text \& Translations by Crossing Words Out | We propose a framework for computerassisted text editing. It applies to translation post-editing and to paraphrasing. Our proposal relies on very simple interactions: a human editor modifies a sentence by marking tokens they would like the system to change. Our model then generates a new sentence which reformulates the... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Marc'Aurelio Ranzato, Sumit Chopra, Roman Novak for helpful discussions. We thank Sergey Edunov, Sam Gross, Myle Ott for writing the fairseq-py toolkit used in our experiments. We thank Jonathan Mallinson, Rico Sennrich, Mirella Lapata, for sharing ParaNet data. | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yakhnenko-rosario-2008-mining | https://aclanthology.org/I08-1036 | Mining the Web for Relations between Digital Devices using a Probabilistic Maximum Margin Model | Searching and reading the Web is one of the principal methods used to seek out information to resolve problems about technology in general and digital devices in particular. This paper addresses the problem of text mining in the digital devices domain. In particular, we address the task of detecting semantic relations ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors would like to thank the reviewers for their feedback and comments; William Schilit for invaluable insight and help and for first suggesting using the MTurk to gather labeled data; David McDonald for help with developing survey instructions; and numerous MT workers for providing the labels. | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
von-etter-etal-2010-assessment | https://aclanthology.org/W10-1105 | Assessment of Utility in Web Mining for the Domain of Public Health | This paper presents ongoing work on application of Information Extraction (IE) technology to domain of Public Health, in a real-world scenario. A central issue in IE is the quality of the results. We present two novel points. First, we distinguish the criteria for quality: the objective criteria that measure correctnes... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | This research was supported in part by: the Technology Development Agency of Finland (TEKES), through the ContentFactory Project, and by the Academy of Finland's National Centre of Excellence "Algorithmic Data Analysis (ALGODAN)." | 2010 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
vydiswaran-etal-2019-towards | https://aclanthology.org/W19-3217 | Towards Text Processing Pipelines to Identify Adverse Drug Events-related Tweets: University of Michigan @ SMM4H 2019 Task 1 | We participated in Task 1 of the Social Media Mining for Health Applications (SMM4H) 2019 Shared Tasks on detecting mentions of adverse drug events (ADEs) in tweets. Our approach relied on a text processing pipeline for tweets, and training traditional machine learning and deep learning models. Our submitted runs perfo... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | null | 2019 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
koehn-2016-computer | https://aclanthology.org/P16-5003 | Computer Aided Translation | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
matusov-etal-2004-symmetric | https://aclanthology.org/C04-1032 | Symmetric Word Alignments for Statistical Machine Translation | In this paper, we address the word alignment problem for statistical machine translation. We aim at creating a symmetric word alignment allowing for reliable one-to-many and many-to-one word relationships. We perform the iterative alignment training in the source-to-target and the target-to-source direction with the we... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work has been partially funded by the EU project TransType 2, IST-2001-32091. | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
brixey-etal-2018-chahta | https://aclanthology.org/L18-1532 | Chahta Anumpa: A multimodal corpus of the Choctaw Language | This paper presents a general use corpus for the Native American indigenous language Choctaw. The corpus contains audio, video, and text resources, with many texts also translated in English. The Oklahoma Choctaw and the Mississippi Choctaw variants of the language are represented in the corpus. The data set provides d... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
schubert-pelletier-1982-english | https://aclanthology.org/J82-1003 | From English to Logic: Context-Free Computation of `Conventional' Logical Translation | We describe an approach to parsing and logical translation that was inspired by Gazdar's work on context-free grammar for English. Each grammar rule consists of a syntactic part that specifies an acceptable fragment of a parse tree, and a semantic part that specifies how the logical formulas corresponding to the consti... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors are indebted to Ivan Sag for a series of very stimulating seminars held by him at the University of Alberta on his linguistic research, and valuable follow-up discussions.The helpful comments of the referees and of Lotfi Zadeh are also appreciated.The research was supported in part by NSERC Operating Grants... | 1982 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kahn-etal-2004-parsing | https://aclanthology.org/N04-4032 | Parsing Conversational Speech Using Enhanced Segmentation | The lack of sentence boundaries and presence of disfluencies pose difficulties for parsing conversational speech. This work investigates the effects of automatically detecting these phenomena on a probabilistic parser's performance. We demonstrate that a state-of-the-art segmenter, relative to a pause-based segmenter, ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank J. Kim for providing the SU-IP detection results, using tools developed under DARPA grant MDA904-02-C-0437. This work is supported by NSF grant no. IIS085940. Any opinions or conclusions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of these agencies. | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
feng-etal-2004-new | https://aclanthology.org/W04-3248 | A New Approach for English-Chinese Named Entity Alignment | Traditional word alignment approaches cannot come up with satisfactory results for Named Entities. In this paper, we propose a novel approach using a maximum entropy model for named entity alignment. To ease the training of the maximum entropy model, bootstrapping is used to help supervised learning. Unlike previous wo... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Thanks to Hang Li, Changning Huang, Yunbo Cao, and John Chen for their valuable comments on this work. Also thank Kevin Knight for his checking of the English of this paper. Special thanks go to Eduard Hovy for his continuous support and encouragement while the first author was visiting MSRA. | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
liu-hulden-2022-detecting | https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-short.19 | Detecting Annotation Errors in Morphological Data with the Transformer | Annotation errors that stem from various sources are usually unavoidable when performing large-scale annotation of linguistic data. In this paper, we evaluate the feasibility of using the Transformer model to detect various types of annotator errors in type-based morphological datasets that contain inflected word forms... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2022 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kim-etal-2017-adversarial | https://aclanthology.org/P17-1119 | Adversarial Adaptation of Synthetic or Stale Data | Two types of data shift common in practice are 1. transferring from synthetic data to live user data (a deployment shift), and 2. transferring from stale data to current data (a temporal shift). Both cause a distribution mismatch between training and evaluation, leading to a model that overfits the flawed training data... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
orr-etal-2014-semi | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/511_Paper.pdf | Semi-automatic annotation of the UCU accents speech corpus | The annotation and labeling of speech tasks in large multitask speech corpora is a necessary part of preparing a corpus for distribution. This paper addresses three approaches to annotation and labeling, namely manual, semi automatic and automatic procedures for labeling the UCU Accent Project speech data, at multiling... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
poncelas-etal-2019-combining | https://aclanthology.org/R19-1107 | Combining PBSMT and NMT Back-translated Data for Efficient NMT | Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models achieve their best performance when large sets of parallel data are used for training. Consequently, techniques for augmenting the training set have become popular recently. One of these methods is back-translation (Sennrich et al., 2016a), which consists on generating synthetic ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research has been supported by the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology which is funded under the SFI Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106) and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund.This work has also received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation... | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
patra-etal-2016-multimodal | https://aclanthology.org/C16-1186 | Multimodal Mood Classification - A Case Study of Differences in Hindi and Western Songs | Music information retrieval has emerged as a mainstream research area in the past two decades. Experiments on music mood classification have been performed mainly on Western music based on audio, lyrics and a combination of both. Unfortunately, due to the scarcity of digitalized resources, Indian music fares poorly in ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The work reported in this paper is supported by a grant from the "Visvesvaraya Ph.D. Scheme for Electronics and IT" funded by Media Lab Asia of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Me-itY), Government of India. | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
burga-etal-2015-towards | https://aclanthology.org/W15-2107 | Towards a multi-layered dependency annotation of Finnish | We present a dependency annotation scheme for Finnish which aims at respecting the multilayered nature of language. We first tackle the annotation of surfacesyntactic structures (SSyntS) as inspired by the Meaning-Text framework. Exclusively syntactic criteria are used when defining the surface-syntactic relations tags... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The work described in this paper has been carried out in the framework of the project Personalized Environmental Service Configuration and Delivery Orchestration (PESCaDO), supported by the European Commission under the contract number FP7-ICT-248594. | 2015 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
iwai-etal-2019-applying | https://aclanthology.org/W19-6704 | Applying Machine Translation to Psychology: Automatic Translation of Personality Adjectives | We introduce our approach to apply machine translation to psychology, especially to translate English adjectives in a psychological personality questionnaire. We first extend seed English personality adjectives with a word2vec model trained with web sentences, and then feed the acquired words to a phrase-based machine ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
samuel-etal-1998-dialogue-act | https://aclanthology.org/P98-2188 | Dialogue Act Tagging with Transformation-Based Learning | For the task of recognizing dialogue acts, we are applying the Transformation-Based Learning (TBL) machine learning algorithm. To circumvent a sparse data problem, we extract values of well-motivated features of utterances, such as speaker direction, punctuation marks, and a new feature, called dialogue act cues, which... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We wish to thank the members of the VERBMo-BIL research group at DFKI in Germany, particularly Norbert Reithinger, Jan Alexandersson, and Elisabeth Maier, for providing us with the opportunity to work with them and generously granting us access to the VERBMOBIL corpora. This work was partially supported by the NSF Gran... | 1998 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bod-2007-unsupervised | https://aclanthology.org/2007.mtsummit-papers.8 | Unsupervised syntax-based machine translation: the contribution of discontiguous phrases | We present a new unsupervised syntax-based MT system, termed U-DOT, which uses the unsupervised U-DOP model for learning paired trees, and which computes the most probable target sentence from the relative frequencies of paired subtrees. We test U-DOT on the German-English Europarl corpus, showing that it outperforms t... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2007 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhang-2018-comparison | https://aclanthology.org/Y18-1095 | A Comparison of Tone Normalization Methods for Language Variation Research | One methodological issue in tonal acoustic analyses is revisited and resolved in this study. Previous tone normalization methods mainly served for categorizing tones but did not aim to preserve sociolinguistic variation. This study, from the perspective of variationist studies, reevaluates the effectiveness of sixteen ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The author would like to thank Utrecht Institute of Linguistics of Utrecht University, Chinese Scholarship Council and the University of Macau (Startup Research Grant SRG2018-00131-FAH) for supporting this study. Thanks also go to Prof. René Kager and Dr. Hans van de Velde for their very helpful comments and suggestion... | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
miller-2009-improved | https://aclanthology.org/N09-1074 | Improved Syntactic Models for Parsing Speech with Repairs | This paper introduces three new syntactic models for representing speech with repairs. These models are developed to test the intuition that the erroneous parts of speech repairs (reparanda) are not generated or recognized as such while occurring, but only after they have been corrected. Thus, they are designed to mini... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
khwaileh-al-asad-2020-elmo | https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.130 | ELMo-NB at SemEval-2020 Task 7: Assessing Sense of Humor in EditedNews Headlines Using ELMo and NB | In this paper, we present our submission for SemEval-2020 competition subtask 1 in Task 7 (Hossain et al., 2020a): Assessing Humor in Edited News Headlines. The task consists of estimating the hilariousness of news headlines that have been modified manually by humans using micro-edit changes to make them funny. Our app... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Dr. Malak Abdullah for her efforts and support. In order to finish this work, we had a lot of straight directions and advice from her, during the fall semester, 2019. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
liu-etal-2020-metaphor | https://aclanthology.org/2020.figlang-1.34 | Metaphor Detection Using Contextual Word Embeddings From Transformers | The detection of metaphors can provide valuable information about a given text and is crucial to sentiment analysis and machine translation. In this paper, we outline the techniques for word-level metaphor detection used in our submission to the Second Shared Task on Metaphor Detection. We propose using both BERT and X... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors thank the organizers of the Second Shared Task on Metaphor Detection and the rest of the Duke Data Science Team. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
vertanen-kristensson-2011-imagination | https://aclanthology.org/D11-1065 | The Imagination of Crowds: Conversational AAC Language Modeling using Crowdsourcing and Large Data Sources | Augmented and alternative communication (AAC) devices enable users with certain communication disabilities to participate in everyday conversations. Such devices often rely on statistical language models to improve text entry by offering word predictions. These predictions can be improved if the language model is train... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Keith Trnka and Horabail Venkatagiri for their assistance. This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant number EP/H027408/1). | 2011 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
artetxe-etal-2019-effective | https://aclanthology.org/P19-1019 | An Effective Approach to Unsupervised Machine Translation | While machine translation has traditionally relied on large amounts of parallel corpora, a recent research line has managed to train both Neural Machine Translation (NMT) and Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems using monolingual corpora only. In this paper, we identify and address several deficiencies of exis... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was partially supported by the Spanish MINECO (UnsupNMT TIN2017-91692-EXP and DOMINO PGC2018-102041-B-I00, cofunded by EU FEDER), the BigKnowledge project (BBVA foundation grant 2018), the UPV/EHU (excellence research group), and the NVIDIA GPU grant program. Mikel Artetxe was supported by a doctoral gran... | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
melamud-etal-2016-role | https://aclanthology.org/N16-1118 | The Role of Context Types and Dimensionality in Learning Word Embeddings | We provide the first extensive evaluation of how using different types of context to learn skip-gram word embeddings affects performance on a wide range of intrinsic and extrinsic NLP tasks. Our results suggest that while intrinsic tasks tend to exhibit a clear preference to particular types of contexts and higher dime... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Do Kook Choe for providing us the jackknifed version of WSJ. We also wish to thank the IBM Watson team for helpful discussions and our anonymous reviewers for their comments. This work was partially supported by the Israel Science Foundation grant 880/12 and the German Research Foundation through the German-Is... | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tillmann-2004-unigram | https://aclanthology.org/N04-4026 | A Unigram Orientation Model for Statistical Machine Translation | In this paper, we present a unigram segmentation model for statistical machine translation where the segmentation units are blocks: pairs of phrases without internal structure. The segmentation model uses a novel orientation component to handle swapping of neighbor blocks. During training, we collect block unigram coun... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was partially supported by DARPA and monitored by SPAWAR under contract No. N66001-99-2-8916. The paper has greatly profited from discussion with Kishore Papineni and Fei Xia. | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
wang-etal-2019-role | https://aclanthology.org/D19-6405 | On the Role of Scene Graphs in Image Captioning | Scene graphs represent semantic information in images, which can help image captioning system to produce more descriptive outputs versus using only the image as context. Recent captioning approaches rely on ad-hoc approaches to obtain graphs for images. However, those graphs introduce noise and it is unclear the effect... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
gong-etal-2015-hashtag | https://aclanthology.org/D15-1046 | Hashtag Recommendation Using Dirichlet Process Mixture Models Incorporating Types of Hashtags | In recent years, the task of recommending hashtags for microblogs has been given increasing attention. Various methods have been proposed to study the problem from different aspects. However, most of the recent studies have not considered the differences in the types or uses of hashtags. In this paper, we introduce a n... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | tially funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61473092 and 61472088), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (No. 2015AA011802), and Shanghai Science and Technology Development Funds (13dz226020013511504300). | 2015 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ambati-etal-2010-active-semi | https://aclanthology.org/W10-0102 | Active Semi-Supervised Learning for Improving Word Alignment | Word alignment models form an important part of building statistical machine translation systems. Semi-supervised word alignment aims to improve the accuracy of automatic word alignment by incorporating full or partial alignments acquired from humans. Such dedicated elicitation effort is often expensive and depends on ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was partially supported by DARPA under grant NBCHC080097. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the DARPA. The first author would like to thank Qin Gao for the semi-supervised word alignment software and help wi... | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tilk-alumae-2017-low | https://aclanthology.org/W17-4503 | Low-Resource Neural Headline Generation | Recent neural headline generation models have shown great results, but are generally trained on very large datasets. We focus our efforts on improving headline quality on smaller datasets by the means of pretraining. We propose new methods that enable pre-training all the parameters of the model and utilize all availab... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank NVIDIA for the donated GPU, the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments, and Kyunghyun Cho for the help with the CNN/Daily Mail dataset. | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
stafanovics-etal-2020-mitigating | https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.73 | Mitigating Gender Bias in Machine Translation with Target Gender Annotations | When translating "The secretary asked for details." to a language with grammatical gender, it might be necessary to determine the gender of the subject "secretary". If the sentence does not contain the necessary information, it is not always possible to disambiguate. In such cases, machine translation systems select th... | true | [] | [] | Gender Equality | null | null | This research was partly done within the scope of the undergraduate thesis project of the first author at the University of Latvia and supervised at Tilde. This research has been supported by the European Regional Development Fund within the joint project of SIA TILDE and University of Latvia "Multilingual Artificial I... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tan-etal-2014-sensible | https://aclanthology.org/S14-2094 | Sensible: L2 Translation Assistance by Emulating the Manual Post-Editing Process | This paper describes the Post-Editor Z system submitted to the L2 writing assistant task in SemEval-2014. The aim of task is to build a translation assistance system to translate untranslated sentence fragments. This is not unlike the task of post-editing where human translators improve machine-generated translations. ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The research leading to these results has received funding from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013/ under REA grant agreement n • 317471. | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
eckart-etal-2012-influence | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/476_Paper.pdf | The Influence of Corpus Quality on Statistical Measurements on Language Resources | The quality of statistical measurements on corpora is strongly related to a strict definition of the measuring process and to corpus quality. In the case of multiple result inspections, an exact measurement of previously specified parameters ensures compatibility of the different measurements performed by different res... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
fujiki-etal-2003-automatic | https://aclanthology.org/E03-1061 | Automatic Acquisition of Script Knowledge from a Text Collection | In this paper, we describe a method for automatic acquisition of script knowledge from a Japanese text collection. Script knowledge represents a typical sequence of actions that occur in a particular situation. We extracted sequences (pairs) of actions occurring in time order from a Japanese text collection and then ch... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2003 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
utt-etal-2013-curious | https://aclanthology.org/W13-0604 | The Curious Case of Metonymic Verbs: A Distributional Characterization | Logical metonymy combines an event-selecting verb with an entity-denoting noun (e.g., The writer began the novel), triggering a covert event interpretation (e.g., reading, writing). Experimental investigations of logical metonymy must assume a binary distinction between metonymic (i.e. eventselecting) verbs and non-met... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Acknowledgements The research for this paper was funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as part of the SFB 732 "Incremental specification in context" / project D6 "Lexical-semantic factors in event interpretation" at the University of Stuttgart. | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
hsu-glass-2008-n | https://aclanthology.org/D08-1087 | N-gram Weighting: Reducing Training Data Mismatch in Cross-Domain Language Model Estimation | In domains with insufficient matched training data, language models are often constructed by interpolating component models trained from partially matched corpora. Since the ngrams from such corpora may not be of equal relevance to the target domain, we propose an n-gram weighting technique to adjust the component n-gr... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback. This research is supported in part by the T-Party Project, a joint research program between MIT and Quanta Computer Inc. | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
berend-etal-2013-lfg | https://aclanthology.org/W13-3608 | LFG-based Features for Noun Number and Article Grammatical Errors | We introduce here a participating system of the CoNLL-2013 Shared Task "Grammatical Error Correction". We focused on the noun number and article error categories and constructed a supervised learning system for solving these tasks. We carried out feature engineering and we found that (among others) the f-structure of a... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported in part by the European Union and the European Social Fund through the project FuturICT.hu (grant no.: TÁMOP-4.2.2.C-11/1/KONV-2012-0013). | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
guo-etal-2018-soft | https://aclanthology.org/P18-1064 | Soft Layer-Specific Multi-Task Summarization with Entailment and Question Generation | An accurate abstractive summary of a document should contain all its salient information and should be logically entailed by the input document. We improve these important aspects of abstractive summarization via multi-task learning with the auxiliary tasks of question generation and entailment generation, where the fo... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank the reviewers for their helpful comments. This work was supported by DARPA (YFA17-D17AP00022), Google Faculty Research Award, Bloomberg Data Science Research Grant, and NVidia GPU awards. The views, opinions, and/or findings contained in this article are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as re... | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
schulz-etal-2019-analysis | https://aclanthology.org/P19-1265 | Analysis of Automatic Annotation Suggestions for Hard Discourse-Level Tasks in Expert Domains | Many complex discourse-level tasks can aid domain experts in their work but require costly expert annotations for data creation. To speed up and ease annotations, we investigate the viability of automatically generated annotation suggestions for such tasks. As an example, we choose a task that is particularly hard for ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the reference 16DHL1040 (FAMULUS). We thank our annotators M. Achtner, S. Eichler, V. Jung, H. Mißbach, K. Nederstigt, P. Schäffner, R. Schönberger, and H. Werl. We also acknowledge Samaun Ibna Faiz for his contributions to th... | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
de-melo-bansal-2013-good | https://aclanthology.org/Q13-1023 | Good, Great, Excellent: Global Inference of Semantic Intensities | Adjectives like good, great, and excellent are similar in meaning, but differ in intensity. Intensity order information is very useful for language learners as well as in several NLP tasks, but is missing in most lexical resources (dictionaries, WordNet, and thesauri). In this paper, we present a primarily unsupervised... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback. | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
mizuta-2004-analysis | https://aclanthology.org/Y04-1007 | An Analysis of Japanese ta / teiru in a Dynamic Semantics Framework and a Comparison with Korean Temporal Markers a nohta / a twuta | In this paper I will shed new light on the semantics of Japanese tense-aspect markers ta and teiru from dynamic semantics and contrastive perspectives. The focus of investigation will be on the essential difference between ta and teiru used in an aspectual sense related to a perfect. I analyze the asymmetry between ta ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | I am grateful to the anonymous reviewer of my abstract and to Norihiro Ogata (Osaka University) for helpful comments. Shortcomings are of course solely mine. | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
obermeier-1985-temporal | https://aclanthology.org/P85-1002 | Temporal Inferences in Medical Texts | The objectives of this paper are twofold, whereby the computer program is meant to be a particular implementation of a general natural Language
[NL] proeessin~ system [NI,PSI which could be used for different domains. | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | null | 1985 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
matsuzaki-etal-2013-complexity | https://aclanthology.org/I13-1009 | The Complexity of Math Problems -- Linguistic, or Computational? | We present a simple, logic-based architecture for solving math problems written in natural language. A problem is firstly translated to a logical form. It is then rewritten into the input language of a solver algorithm and finally the solver finds an answer. Such a clean decomposition of the task however does not come ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
wang-etal-2021-predicting | https://aclanthology.org/2021.rocling-1.18 | Predicting elders' cognitive flexibility from their language use | Increasing research efforts are directed towards the relationship between cognitive decline and language use. However, few of them had focused specifically on how language use is related to cognitive flexibility. This study recruited 51 elders aged 53-74 to discuss their daily activities in focus groups. The transcribe... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | Reduced Inequalities | null | null | 2021 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yao-etal-2012-probabilistic | https://aclanthology.org/W12-3022 | Probabilistic Databases of Universal Schema | In data integration we transform information from a source into a target schema. A general problem in this task is loss of fidelity and coverage: the source expresses more knowledge than can fit into the target schema, or knowledge that is hard to fit into any schema at all. This problem is taken to an extreme in infor... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported in part by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval and the University of Massachusetts and in part by UPenn NSF medium IIS-0803847. We gratefully acknowledge the support of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Machine Reading Program under Air Force Research Laboratory (AFR... | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
wu-etal-2006-computational | https://aclanthology.org/P06-4011 | Computational Analysis of Move Structures in Academic Abstracts | This paper introduces a method for computational analysis of move structures in abstracts of research articles. In our approach, sentences in a given abstract are analyzed and labeled with a specific move in light of various rhetorical functions. The method involves automatically gathering a large number of abstracts f... | true | [] | [] | Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure | null | null | null | 2006 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
clemenceau-roche-1993-enhancing | https://aclanthology.org/E93-1059 | Enhancing a large scale dictionary with a two-level system | We present in this paper a morphological analyzer and generator for French that contains a dictionary of 700,000 inflected words called DELAF 1, and a full twolevel system aimed at the analysis of new derivatives. Hence, this tool recognizes and generates both correct inflected forms of French simple words (DELAF looku... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1993 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
theeramunkong-etal-1997-exploiting | https://aclanthology.org/W97-1511 | Exploiting Contextual Information in Hypothesis Selection for Grammar Refinement | In this paper, we propose a new framework of grammar development and some techniques for exploiting contextual information in a process of grammar refinement. The proposed framework involves two processes, partial grammar acquisition and grammar refinement. In the former process, a rough grammar is constructed from a b... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the EDR organization for permitting us to access the EDR corpus. Special thanks go to Dr. Ratana Rujiravanit, who helps me to keenly proofread a draft of this paper. We also wish to thank the members in Okumura laboratory at JAIST for their useful comments and their technical supports. | 1997 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
rasooli-tetreault-2013-joint | https://aclanthology.org/D13-1013 | Joint Parsing and Disfluency Detection in Linear Time | We introduce a novel method to jointly parse and detect disfluencies in spoken utterances. Our model can use arbitrary features for parsing sentences and adapt itself with out-ofdomain data. We show that our method, based on transition-based parsing, performs at a high level of accuracy for both the parsing and disflue... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on the paper. Additionally, we were aided by researchers by their prompt responses to our many questions: Mark Core, Luciana Ferrer, Kallirroi Georgila, Mark Johnson, Jeremy Kahn, Yang Liu, Xian Qian, Kenji Sagae, and Wen Wang. Finally, this work was... | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
delmonte-2016-venseseval | https://aclanthology.org/S16-1123 | VENSESEVAL at Semeval-2016 Task 2 iSTS - with a full-fledged rule-based approach | In our paper we present our rule-based system for semantic processing. In particular we show examples and solutions that may be challenge our approach. We then discuss problems and shortcomings of Task 2-iSTS. We comment on the existence of a tension between the inherent need to on the one side, to make the task as muc... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
shwartz-etal-2020-unsupervised | https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.373 | Unsupervised Commonsense Question Answering with Self-Talk | Natural language understanding involves reading between the lines with implicit background knowledge. Current systems either rely on pretrained language models as the sole implicit source of world knowledge, or resort to external knowledge bases (KBs) to incorporate additional relevant knowledge. We propose an unsuperv... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was supported in part by NSF (IIS-1524371, IIS-1714566), DARPA under the CwC program through the ARO (W911NF-15-1-0543), and DARPA under the MCS program through NIWC Pacific (N66001-19-2-4031). | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
berwick-1984-strong | https://aclanthology.org/J84-3005 | Strong Generative Capacity, Weak Generative Capacity, and Modern Linguistic Theories | What makes a language a natural language? A longstanding tradition in generative grammar holds that a language is natural just in case it is learnable under a constellation of auxiliary assumptions about input evidence available to children. Yet another approach seeks some key mathematical property that distinguishes t... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Much of this research has been sparked by collaboration with Amy S. Weinberg.Thanks to her for many discussions on GB theory. Portions of this work have appeared in The Grammatical Basis of Linguistic Perform-Generative Capacity and Linguistic Theory ance.The research has been carried out at the MIT Artificial Intellig... | 1984 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhang-feng-2021-universal | https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.581 | Universal Simultaneous Machine Translation with Mixture-of-Experts Wait-k Policy | Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) generates translation before reading the entire source sentence and hence it has to trade off between translation quality and latency. To fulfill the requirements of different translation quality and latency in practical applications, the previous methods usually need to train mu... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank all the anonymous reviewers for their insightful and valuable comments. This work was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (NO. 2017YFE0192900). | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
angelov-2009-incremental | https://aclanthology.org/E09-1009 | Incremental Parsing with Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammars | Parallel Multiple Context-Free Grammar (PMCFG) is an extension of context-free grammar for which the recognition problem is still solvable in polynomial time. We describe a new parsing algorithm that has the advantage to be incremental and to support PMCFG directly rather than the weaker MCFG formalism. The algorithm i... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
anechitei-ignat-2013-multilingual | https://aclanthology.org/W13-3110 | Multilingual summarization system based on analyzing the discourse structure at MultiLing 2013 | This paper describes the architecture of UAIC 1 's Summarization system participating at MultiLing-2013. The architecture includes language independent text processing modules, but also modules that are adapted for one language or another. In our experiments, the languages under consideration are Bulgarian, German, Gre... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
boussidan-ploux-2011-using | https://aclanthology.org/W11-0134 | Using Topic Salience and Connotational Drifts to Detect Candidates to Semantic Change | Semantic change has mostly been studied by historical linguists and typically at the scale of centuries. Here we study semantic change at a finer-grained level, the decade, making use of recent newspaper corpora. We detect semantic change candidates by observing context shifts which can be triggered by topic salience o... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research is supported by the Région Rhône-Alpes, via the Cible Project 2009. Many thanks to Sylvain Lupone, previously engineer at the L2c2 for the tools he developed in this research's framework. | 2011 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
cooke-1999-interactive | https://aclanthology.org/W99-0805 | Interactive Auditory Demonstrations | The subject matter of speech and hearing is packed full of phenomena and processes which lend themselves to or require auditory demonstration. In the past, this has been achieved through passive media such as tape or CD (e.g. Houtsma et ai, 1987; Bregman & Ahad, 1995). The advent of languages such as MATLAB which suppo... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Demonstrations described here were programmed by Guy Brown, Martin Cooke and Stuart Wrigley (Sheffield, UK) and Dan Ellis (ICSI, Berkeley, USA). Stuart Cunningham and Ljubomir Josifovski helped with the testing. Funding for some of the development work was provided by the ELSNET LE Training Showcase, 98/02. | 1999 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
vasconcelos-etal-2020-aspect | https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.183 | Aspect Flow Representation and Audio Inspired Analysis for Texts | For better understanding how people write texts, it is fundamental to examine how a particular linguistic aspect (e.g., subjectivity, sentiment, argumentation) is exploited in a text. Analysing such an aspect of a text as a whole (i.e., through a summarised single feature) can lead to significant information loss. In t... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
sultan-etal-2020-importance | https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.500 | On the Importance of Diversity in Question Generation for QA | Automatic question generation (QG) has shown promise as a source of synthetic training data for question answering (QA). In this paper we ask: Is textual diversity in QG beneficial for downstream QA? Using top-p nucleus sampling to derive samples from a transformer-based question generator, we show that diversity-promo... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
li-church-2005-using | https://aclanthology.org/H05-1089 | Using Sketches to Estimate Associations | We should not have to look at the entire corpus (e.g., the Web) to know if two words are associated or not. 1 A powerful sampling technique called Sketches was originally introduced to remove duplicate Web pages. We generalize sketches to estimate contingency tables and associations, using a maximum likelihood estimato... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2005 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bernardi-etal-2006-multilingual | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/433_pdf.pdf | Multilingual Search in Libraries. The case-study of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano | This paper presents an ongoing project aiming at enhancing the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) search system of the Library of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano with multilingual access. The Multilingual search system (MUSIL), we have developed, integrates advanced linguistic technologies in a user friendly inte... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2006 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ball-1994-practical | https://aclanthology.org/1994.tc-1.10 | Practical Choices for Hardware and Software | The choices we have to make when selecting hardware and software appear very difficult for most of us. The unrelenting rate of change and the torrent of information we are bombarded with is so confusing and intimidating that it can make navigating a traffic-jam in the Parisian rush hour look easy. One of the problems i... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1994 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
dang-etal-1998-investigating-regular | https://aclanthology.org/P98-1046 | Investigating Regular Sense Extensions based on Intersective Levin Classes | In this paper we specifically address questions of polysemy with respect to verbs, and how regular extensions of meaning can be achieved through the adjunction of particular syntactic phrases. We see verb classes as the key to making generalizations about regular extensions of meaning. Current approaches to English cla... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1998 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bonheme-grzes-2020-sesam | https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.102 | SESAM at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Investigating the Relationship between Image and Text in Sentiment Analysis of Memes | This paper presents our submission to task 8 (memotion analysis) of the SemEval 2020 competition. We explain the algorithms that were used to learn our models along with the process of tuning the algorithms and selecting the best model. Since meme analysis is a challenging task with two distinct modalities, we studied ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank the SemEval-2020 organisers for their time to prepare the data and run the competition, and the reviewers for their insightful comments. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kanzaki-isahara-2018-building | https://aclanthology.org/L18-1376 | Building a List of Synonymous Words and Phrases of Japanese Compound Verbs | We started to construct a database of synonymous expressions of Japanese "Verb + Verb" compounds semi-automatically. Japanese is known to be rich in compound verbs consisting of two verbs joined together. However, we did not have a comprehensive Japanese compound lexicon. Recently a Japanese compound verb lexicon was c... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) ) Grant Number JP 16K02727. | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
lin-etal-2021-contextualized | https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.77 | Contextualized Query Embeddings for Conversational Search | This paper describes a compact and effective model for low-latency passage retrieval in conversational search based on learned dense representations. Prior to our work, the state-ofthe-art approach uses a multi-stage pipeline comprising conversational query reformulation and information retrieval modules. Despite its e... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was supported in part by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. Additionally, we would like to thank the support of Cloud TPUs from Google's TPU Research Cloud (TRC). | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yamauchi-etal-2013-robotic | https://aclanthology.org/W13-4060 | A Robotic Agent in a Virtual Environment that Performs Situated Incremental Understanding of Navigational Utterances | We demonstrate a robotic agent in a 3D virtual environment that understands human navigational instructions. Such an agent needs to select actions based on not only instructions but also situations. It is also expected to immediately react to the instructions. Our agent incrementally understands spoken instructions and... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Antoine Raux and Shun Sato for their contribution to building the previous versions of this system. Thanks also go to Timo Baumann Okko Buß, and David Schlangen for making their InproTK available. | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhang-etal-2010-machine | https://aclanthology.org/C10-2165 | Machine Transliteration: Leveraging on Third Languages | This paper presents two pivot strategies for statistical machine transliteration, namely system-based pivot strategy and model-based pivot strategy. Given two independent source-pivot and pivot-target name pair corpora, the model-based strategy learns a direct sourcetarget transliteration model while the system-based s... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
barthelemy-1998-morphological | https://aclanthology.org/W98-1010 | A Morphological Analyzer for Akkadian Verbal Forms with a Model of Phonetic Transformations | The paper describes a first attempt to design a morphological analyzer for Akkadian verbal forms. Akkadian is a semitic dead language which was used in the ancient Mesopotamia. The analyzer described has two levels: the first one is a deterministic and unique paradigm that describes the flexion of Akkadian verbs. The s... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The following references, given by one of the referees as relevant to our work, were not used for lack of time. | 1998 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
park-caragea-2020-scientific | https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.472 | Scientific Keyphrase Identification and Classification by Pre-Trained Language Models Intermediate Task Transfer Learning | Scientific keyphrase identification and classification is the task of detecting and classifying keyphrases from scholarly text with their types from a set of predefined classes. This task has a wide range of benefits, but it is still challenging in performance due to the lack of large amounts of labeled data required f... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Isabelle Augenstein for several clarifications of the task and the evaluation approach. We also thank our anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and feedback, which helped improve our paper. This research is supported in part by NSF CAREER award #1802358, NSF CRI award #1823292, and UIC Discovery ... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
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