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Unraveling reported dreams with text analytics
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We investigate what distinguishes reported dreams from other personal narratives. The continuity hypothesis, stemming from psychological dream analysis work, states that most dreams refer to a person's daily life and personal concerns, similar to other personal narratives such as diary entries. Differences between the ...
computer science
15,203
From narrative descriptions to MedDRA: automagically encoding adverse drug reactions
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The collection of narrative spontaneous reports is an irreplaceable source for the prompt detection of suspected adverse drug reactions (ADRs): qualified domain experts manually revise a huge amount of narrative descriptions and then encode texts according to MedDRA standard terminology. The manual annotation of narrat...
computer science
15,204
Neural Machine Translation by Minimising the Bayes-risk with Respect to Syntactic Translation Lattices
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We present a novel scheme to combine neural machine translation (NMT) with traditional statistical machine translation (SMT). Our approach borrows ideas from linearised lattice minimum Bayes-risk decoding for SMT. The NMT score is combined with the Bayes-risk of the translation according the SMT lattice. This makes our...
computer science
15,205
Tracking the World State with Recurrent Entity Networks
cs.CL
We introduce a new model, the Recurrent Entity Network (EntNet). It is equipped with a dynamic long-term memory which allows it to maintain and update a representation of the state of the world as it receives new data. For language understanding tasks, it can reason on-the-fly as it reads text, not just when it is requ...
computer science
15,206
ConceptNet 5.5: An Open Multilingual Graph of General Knowledge
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Machine learning about language can be improved by supplying it with specific knowledge and sources of external information. We present here a new version of the linked open data resource ConceptNet that is particularly well suited to be used with modern NLP techniques such as word embeddings. ConceptNet is a knowled...
computer science
15,207
Evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition Systems in Comparison With Human Perception Results Using Distinctive Feature Measures
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This paper describes methods for evaluating automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems in comparison with human perception results, using measures derived from linguistic distinctive features. Error patterns in terms of manner, place and voicing are presented, along with an examination of confusion matrices via a disti...
computer science
15,208
Performance Improvements of Probabilistic Transcript-adapted ASR with Recurrent Neural Network and Language-specific Constraints
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Mismatched transcriptions have been proposed as a mean to acquire probabilistic transcriptions from non-native speakers of a language.Prior work has demonstrated the value of these transcriptions by successfully adapting cross-lingual ASR systems for different tar-get languages. In this work, we describe two techniques...
computer science
15,209
Vicinity-Driven Paragraph and Sentence Alignment for Comparable Corpora
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Parallel corpora have driven great progress in the field of Text Simplification. However, most sentence alignment algorithms either offer a limited range of alignment types supported, or simply ignore valuable clues present in comparable documents. We address this problem by introducing a new set of flexible vicinity-d...
computer science
15,210
Multi-Perspective Context Matching for Machine Comprehension
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Previous machine comprehension (MC) datasets are either too small to train end-to-end deep learning models, or not difficult enough to evaluate the ability of current MC techniques. The newly released SQuAD dataset alleviates these limitations, and gives us a chance to develop more realistic MC models. Based on this da...
computer science
15,211
Building Large Machine Reading-Comprehension Datasets using Paragraph Vectors
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We present a dual contribution to the task of machine reading-comprehension: a technique for creating large-sized machine-comprehension (MC) datasets using paragraph-vector models; and a novel, hybrid neural-network architecture that combines the representation power of recurrent neural networks with the discriminative...
computer science
15,212
Hypernyms under Siege: Linguistically-motivated Artillery for Hypernymy Detection
cs.CL
The fundamental role of hypernymy in NLP has motivated the development of many methods for the automatic identification of this relation, most of which rely on word distribution. We investigate an extensive number of such unsupervised measures, using several distributional semantic models that differ by context type an...
computer science
15,213
Mining Compatible/Incompatible Entities from Question and Answering via Yes/No Answer Classification using Distant Label Expansion
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Product Community Question Answering (PCQA) provides useful information about products and their features (aspects) that may not be well addressed by product descriptions and reviews. We observe that a product's compatibility issues with other products are frequently discussed in PCQA and such issues are more frequentl...
computer science
15,214
Grammatical Constraints on Intra-sentential Code-Switching: From Theories to Working Models
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We make one of the first attempts to build working models for intra-sentential code-switching based on the Equivalence-Constraint (Poplack 1980) and Matrix-Language (Myers-Scotton 1993) theories. We conduct a detailed theoretical analysis, and a small-scale empirical study of the two models for Hindi-English CS. Our an...
computer science
15,215
Neural Emoji Recommendation in Dialogue Systems
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Emoji is an essential component in dialogues which has been broadly utilized on almost all social platforms. It could express more delicate feelings beyond plain texts and thus smooth the communications between users, making dialogue systems more anthropomorphic and vivid. In this paper, we focus on automatically recom...
computer science
15,216
How Grammatical is Character-level Neural Machine Translation? Assessing MT Quality with Contrastive Translation Pairs
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Analysing translation quality in regards to specific linguistic phenomena has historically been difficult and time-consuming. Neural machine translation has the attractive property that it can produce scores for arbitrary translations, and we propose a novel method to assess how well NMT systems model specific linguist...
computer science
15,217
Unsupervised Clustering of Commercial Domains for Adaptive Machine Translation
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In this paper, we report on domain clustering in the ambit of an adaptive MT architecture. A standard bottom-up hierarchical clustering algorithm has been instantiated with five different distances, which have been compared, on an MT benchmark built on 40 commercial domains, in terms of dendrograms, intrinsic and extri...
computer science
15,218
Multilingual Word Embeddings using Multigraphs
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We present a family of neural-network--inspired models for computing continuous word representations, specifically designed to exploit both monolingual and multilingual text. This framework allows us to perform unsupervised training of embeddings that exhibit higher accuracy on syntactic and semantic compositionality, ...
computer science
15,219
CoPaSul Manual - Contour-based parametric and superpositional intonation stylization
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The purposes of the CoPaSul toolkit are (1) automatic prosodic annotation and (2) prosodic feature extraction from syllable to utterance level. CoPaSul stands for contour-based, parametric, superpositional intonation stylization. In this framework intonation is represented as a superposition of global and local contour...
computer science
15,220
Transition-based Parsing with Context Enhancement and Future Reward Reranking
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This paper presents a novel reranking model, future reward reranking, to re-score the actions in a transition-based parser by using a global scorer. Different to conventional reranking parsing, the model searches for the best dependency tree in all feasible trees constraining by a sequence of actions to get the future ...
computer science
15,221
Building a robust sentiment lexicon with (almost) no resource
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Creating sentiment polarity lexicons is labor intensive. Automatically translating them from resourceful languages requires in-domain machine translation systems, which rely on large quantities of bi-texts. In this paper, we propose to replace machine translation by transferring words from the lexicon through word embe...
computer science
15,222
Modeling Trolling in Social Media Conversations
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Social media websites, electronic newspapers and Internet forums allow visitors to leave comments for others to read and interact. This exchange is not free from participants with malicious intentions, who troll others by positing messages that are intended to be provocative, offensive, or menacing. With the goal of fa...
computer science
15,223
Automatic Labelling of Topics with Neural Embeddings
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Topics generated by topic models are typically represented as list of terms. To reduce the cognitive overhead of interpreting these topics for end-users, we propose labelling a topic with a succinct phrase that summarises its theme or idea. Using Wikipedia document titles as label candidates, we compute neural embeddin...
computer science
15,224
A Two-Phase Approach Towards Identifying Argument Structure in Natural Language
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We propose a new approach for extracting argument structure from natural language texts that contain an underlying argument. Our approach comprises of two phases: Score Assignment and Structure Prediction. The Score Assignment phase trains models to classify relations between argument units (Support, Attack or Neutral)...
computer science
15,225
Neural Networks Classifier for Data Selection in Statistical Machine Translation
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We address the data selection problem in statistical machine translation (SMT) as a classification task. The new data selection method is based on a neural network classifier. We present a new method description and empirical results proving that our data selection method provides better translation quality, compared t...
computer science
15,226
Neural Multi-Source Morphological Reinflection
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We explore the task of multi-source morphological reinflection, which generalizes the standard, single-source version. The input consists of (i) a target tag and (ii) multiple pairs of source form and source tag for a lemma. The motivation is that it is beneficial to have access to more than one source form since diffe...
computer science
15,227
Boosting Neural Machine Translation
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Training efficiency is one of the main problems for Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Deep networks need for very large data as well as many training iterations to achieve state-of-the-art performance. This results in very high computation cost, slowing down research and industrialisation. In this paper, we propose to ...
computer science
15,228
Neural Machine Translation from Simplified Translations
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Text simplification aims at reducing the lexical, grammatical and structural complexity of a text while keeping the same meaning. In the context of machine translation, we introduce the idea of simplified translations in order to boost the learning ability of deep neural translation models. We conduct preliminary exper...
computer science
15,229
Domain Control for Neural Machine Translation
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Machine translation systems are very sensitive to the domains they were trained on. Several domain adaptation techniques have been deeply studied. We propose a new technique for neural machine translation (NMT) that we call domain control which is performed at runtime using a unique neural network covering multiple dom...
computer science
15,230
Domain specialization: a post-training domain adaptation for Neural Machine Translation
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Domain adaptation is a key feature in Machine Translation. It generally encompasses terminology, domain and style adaptation, especially for human post-editing workflows in Computer Assisted Translation (CAT). With Neural Machine Translation (NMT), we introduce a new notion of domain adaptation that we call "specializa...
computer science
15,231
Span-Based Constituency Parsing with a Structure-Label System and Provably Optimal Dynamic Oracles
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Parsing accuracy using efficient greedy transition systems has improved dramatically in recent years thanks to neural networks. Despite striking results in dependency parsing, however, neural models have not surpassed state-of-the-art approaches in constituency parsing. To remedy this, we introduce a new shift-reduce s...
computer science
15,232
Exploring Different Dimensions of Attention for Uncertainty Detection
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Neural networks with attention have proven effective for many natural language processing tasks. In this paper, we develop attention mechanisms for uncertainty detection. In particular, we generalize standardly used attention mechanisms by introducing external attention and sequence-preserving attention. These novel ar...
computer science
15,233
Unsupervised Dialogue Act Induction using Gaussian Mixtures
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This paper introduces a new unsupervised approach for dialogue act induction. Given the sequence of dialogue utterances, the task is to assign them the labels representing their function in the dialogue. Utterances are represented as real-valued vectors encoding their meaning. We model the dialogue as Hidden Markov m...
computer science
15,234
Grammar rules for the isiZulu complex verb
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The isiZulu verb is known for its morphological complexity, which is a subject for on-going linguistics research, as well as for prospects of computational use, such as controlled natural language interfaces, machine translation, and spellcheckers. To this end, we seek to answer the question as to what the precise gram...
computer science
15,235
Inferring the location of authors from words in their texts
cs.CL
For the purposes of computational dialectology or other geographically bound text analysis tasks, texts must be annotated with their or their authors' location. Many texts are locatable through explicit labels but most have no explicit annotation of place. This paper describes a series of experiments to determine how p...
computer science
15,236
Stateology: State-Level Interactive Charting of Language, Feelings, and Values
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People's personality and motivations are manifest in their everyday language usage. With the emergence of social media, ample examples of such usage are procurable. In this paper, we aim to analyze the vocabulary used by close to 200,000 Blogger users in the U.S. with the purpose of geographically portraying various de...
computer science
15,237
SCDV : Sparse Composite Document Vectors using soft clustering over distributional representations
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We present a feature vector formation technique for documents - Sparse Composite Document Vector (SCDV) - which overcomes several shortcomings of the current distributional paragraph vector representations that are widely used for text representation. In SCDV, word embedding's are clustered to capture multiple semantic...
computer science
15,238
User Bias Removal in Review Score Prediction
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Review score prediction of text reviews has recently gained a lot of attention in recommendation systems. A major problem in models for review score prediction is the presence of noise due to user-bias in review scores. We propose two simple statistical methods to remove such noise and improve review score prediction. ...
computer science
15,239
Fast Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation
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Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a new approach for automatic translation of text from one human language into another. The basic concept in NMT is to train a large Neural Network that maximizes the translation performance on a given parallel corpus. NMT is gaining popularity in the research community because it out...
computer science
15,240
Sparse Coding of Neural Word Embeddings for Multilingual Sequence Labeling
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In this paper we propose and carefully evaluate a sequence labeling framework which solely utilizes sparse indicator features derived from dense distributed word representations. The proposed model obtains (near) state-of-the art performance for both part-of-speech tagging and named entity recognition for a variety of ...
computer science
15,241
Inverted Bilingual Topic Models for Lexicon Extraction from Non-parallel Data
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Topic models have been successfully applied in lexicon extraction. However, most previous methods are limited to document-aligned data. In this paper, we try to address two challenges of applying topic models to lexicon extraction in non-parallel data: 1) hard to model the word relationship and 2) noisy seed dictionary...
computer science
15,242
Continuous multilinguality with language vectors
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Most existing models for multilingual natural language processing (NLP) treat language as a discrete category, and make predictions for either one language or the other. In contrast, we propose using continuous vector representations of language. We show that these can be learned efficiently with a character-based neur...
computer science
15,243
Noise Mitigation for Neural Entity Typing and Relation Extraction
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In this paper, we address two different types of noise in information extraction models: noise from distant supervision and noise from pipeline input features. Our target tasks are entity typing and relation extraction. For the first noise type, we introduce multi-instance multi-label learning algorithms using neural n...
computer science
15,244
A CRF Based POS Tagger for Code-mixed Indian Social Media Text
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In this work, we describe a conditional random fields (CRF) based system for Part-Of- Speech (POS) tagging of code-mixed Indian social media text as part of our participation in the tool contest on POS tagging for codemixed Indian social media text, held in conjunction with the 2016 International Conference on Natural ...
computer science
15,245
Language Modeling with Gated Convolutional Networks
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The pre-dominant approach to language modeling to date is based on recurrent neural networks. Their success on this task is often linked to their ability to capture unbounded context. In this paper we develop a finite context approach through stacked convolutions, which can be more efficient since they allow paralleliz...
computer science
15,246
KS_JU@DPIL-FIRE2016:Detecting Paraphrases in Indian Languages Using Multinomial Logistic Regression Model
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In this work, we describe a system that detects paraphrases in Indian Languages as part of our participation in the shared Task on detecting paraphrases in Indian Languages (DPIL) organized by Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) in 2016. Our paraphrase detection method uses a multinomial logistic regressi...
computer science
15,247
Understanding Neural Networks through Representation Erasure
cs.CL
While neural networks have been successfully applied to many natural language processing tasks, they come at the cost of interpretability. In this paper, we propose a general methodology to analyze and interpret decisions from a neural model by observing the effects on the model of erasing various parts of the represen...
computer science
15,248
Text Summarization using Deep Learning and Ridge Regression
cs.CL
We develop models and extract relevant features for automatic text summarization and investigate the performance of different models on the DUC 2001 dataset. Two different models were developed, one being a ridge regressor and the other one was a multi-layer perceptron. The hyperparameters were varied and their perform...
computer science
15,249
Abstractive Headline Generation for Spoken Content by Attentive Recurrent Neural Networks with ASR Error Modeling
cs.CL
Headline generation for spoken content is important since spoken content is difficult to be shown on the screen and browsed by the user. It is a special type of abstractive summarization, for which the summaries are generated word by word from scratch without using any part of the original content. Many deep learning a...
computer science
15,250
Shamela: A Large-Scale Historical Arabic Corpus
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Arabic is a widely-spoken language with a rich and long history spanning more than fourteen centuries. Yet existing Arabic corpora largely focus on the modern period or lack sufficient diachronic information. We develop a large-scale, historical corpus of Arabic of about 1 billion words from diverse periods of time. We...
computer science
15,251
Here's My Point: Joint Pointer Architecture for Argument Mining
cs.CL
One of the major goals in automated argumentation mining is to uncover the argument structure present in argumentative text. In order to determine this structure, one must understand how different individual components of the overall argument are linked. General consensus in this field dictates that the argument compon...
computer science
15,252
Deep Semi-Supervised Learning with Linguistically Motivated Sequence Labeling Task Hierarchies
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In this paper we present a novel Neural Network algorithm for conducting semi-supervised learning for sequence labeling tasks arranged in a linguistically motivated hierarchy. This relationship is exploited to regularise the representations of supervised tasks by backpropagating the error of the unsupervised task throu...
computer science
15,253
Network statistics on early English Syntax: Structural criteria
cs.CL
This paper includes a reflection on the role of networks in the study of English language acquisition, as well as a collection of practical criteria to annotate free-speech corpora from children utterances. At the theoretical level, the main claim of this paper is that syntactic networks should be interpreted as the ou...
computer science
15,254
Discriminative Phoneme Sequences Extraction for Non-Native Speaker's Origin Classification
cs.CL
In this paper we present an automated method for the classification of the origin of non-native speakers. The origin of non-native speakers could be identified by a human listener based on the detection of typical pronunciations for each nationality. Thus we suppose the existence of several phoneme sequences that might...
computer science
15,255
Combined Acoustic and Pronunciation Modelling for Non-Native Speech Recognition
cs.CL
In this paper, we present several adaptation methods for non-native speech recognition. We have tested pronunciation modelling, MLLR and MAP non-native pronunciation adaptation and HMM models retraining on the HIWIRE foreign accented English speech database. The ``phonetic confusion'' scheme we have developed consists ...
computer science
15,256
Amélioration des Performances des Systèmes Automatiques de Reconnaissance de la Parole pour la Parole Non Native
cs.CL
In this article, we present an approach for non native automatic speech recognition (ASR). We propose two methods to adapt existing ASR systems to the non-native accents. The first method is based on the modification of acoustic models through integration of acoustic models from the mother tong. The phonemes of the tar...
computer science
15,257
Proof nets for display logic
cs.CL
This paper explores several extensions of proof nets for the Lambek calculus in order to handle the different connectives of display logic in a natural way. The new proof net calculus handles some recent additions to the Lambek vocabulary such as Galois connections and Grishin interactions. It concludes with an explora...
computer science
15,258
Morphological annotation of Korean with Directly Maintainable Resources
cs.CL
This article describes an exclusively resource-based method of morphological annotation of written Korean text. Korean is an agglutinative language. Our annotator is designed to process text before the operation of a syntactic parser. In its present state, it annotates one-stem words only. The output is a graph of morp...
computer science
15,259
Lexicon management and standard formats
cs.CL
International standards for lexicon formats are in preparation. To a certain extent, the proposed formats converge with prior results of standardization projects. However, their adequacy for (i) lexicon management and (ii) lexicon-driven applications have been little debated in the past, nor are they as a part of the p...
computer science
15,260
In memoriam Maurice Gross
cs.CL
Maurice Gross (1934-2001) was both a great linguist and a pioneer in natural language processing. This article is written in homage to his memory
computer science
15,261
A resource-based Korean morphological annotation system
cs.CL
We describe a resource-based method of morphological annotation of written Korean text. Korean is an agglutinative language. The output of our system is a graph of morphemes annotated with accurate linguistic information. The language resources used by the system can be easily updated, which allows us-ers to control th...
computer science
15,262
Graphes paramétrés et outils de lexicalisation
cs.CL
Shifting to a lexicalized grammar reduces the number of parsing errors and improves application results. However, such an operation affects a syntactic parser in all its aspects. One of our research objectives is to design a realistic model for grammar lexicalization. We carried out experiments for which we used a gram...
computer science
15,263
Evaluation of a Grammar of French Determiners
cs.CL
Existing syntactic grammars of natural languages, even with a far from complete coverage, are complex objects. Assessments of the quality of parts of such grammars are useful for the validation of their construction. We evaluated the quality of a grammar of French determiners that takes the form of a recursive transiti...
computer science
15,264
Very strict selectional restrictions
cs.CL
We discuss the characteristics and behaviour of two parallel classes of verbs in two Romance languages, French and Portuguese. Examples of these verbs are Port. abater [gado] and Fr. abattre [b\'etail], both meaning "slaughter [cattle]". In both languages, the definition of the class of verbs includes several features:...
computer science
15,265
Outilex, plate-forme logicielle de traitement de textes écrits
cs.CL
The Outilex software platform, which will be made available to research, development and industry, comprises software components implementing all the fundamental operations of written text processing: processing without lexicons, exploitation of lexicons and grammars, language resource management. All data are structur...
computer science
15,266
Let's get the student into the driver's seat
cs.CL
Speaking a language and achieving proficiency in another one is a highly complex process which requires the acquisition of various kinds of knowledge and skills, like the learning of words, rules and patterns and their connection to communicative goals (intentions), the usual starting point. To help the learner to acqu...
computer science
15,267
Valence extraction using EM selection and co-occurrence matrices
cs.CL
This paper discusses two new procedures for extracting verb valences from raw texts, with an application to the Polish language. The first novel technique, the EM selection algorithm, performs unsupervised disambiguation of valence frame forests, obtained by applying a non-probabilistic deep grammar parser and some pos...
computer science
15,268
Why has (reasonably accurate) Automatic Speech Recognition been so hard to achieve?
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Hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been successfully applied to automatic speech recognition for more than 35 years in spite of the fact that a key HMM assumption -- the statistical independence of frames -- is obviously violated by speech data. In fact, this data/model mismatch has inspired many attempts to modify or re...
computer science
15,269
Change of word types to word tokens ratio in the course of translation (based on Russian translations of K. Vonnegut novels)
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The article provides lexical statistical analysis of K. Vonnegut's two novels and their Russian translations. It is found out that there happen some changes between the speed of word types and word tokens ratio change in the source and target texts. The author hypothesizes that these changes are typical for English-Rus...
computer science
15,270
Linguistic Geometries for Unsupervised Dimensionality Reduction
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Text documents are complex high dimensional objects. To effectively visualize such data it is important to reduce its dimensionality and visualize the low dimensional embedding as a 2-D or 3-D scatter plot. In this paper we explore dimensionality reduction methods that draw upon domain knowledge in order to achieve a b...
computer science
15,271
Automatic derivation of domain terms and concept location based on the analysis of the identifiers
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Developers express the meaning of the domain ideas in specifically selected identifiers and comments that form the target implemented code. Software maintenance requires knowledge and understanding of the encoded ideas. This paper presents a way how to create automatically domain vocabulary. Knowledge of domain vocabul...
computer science
15,272
A Computational Algorithm based on Empirical Analysis, that Composes Sanskrit Poetry
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Poetry-writing in Sanskrit is riddled with problems for even those who know the language well. This is so because the rules that govern Sanskrit prosody are numerous and stringent. We propose a computational algorithm that converts prose given as E-text into poetry in accordance with the metrical rules of Sanskrit pros...
computer science
15,273
Les Entités Nommées : usage et degrés de précision et de désambiguïsation
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The recognition and classification of Named Entities (NER) are regarded as an important component for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. The classification is usually made by taking into account the immediate context in which the NE appears. In some cases, this immediate context does not allow getting...
computer science
15,274
La représentation formelle des concepts spatiaux dans la langue
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In this chapter, we assume that systematically studying spatial markers semantics in language provides a means to reveal fundamental properties and concepts characterizing conceptual representations of space. We propose a formal system accounting for the properties highlighted by the linguistic analysis, and we use the...
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15,275
Les entités spatiales dans la langue : étude descriptive, formelle et expérimentale de la catégorisation
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While previous linguistic and psycholinguistic research on space has mainly analyzed spatial relations, the studies reported in this paper focus on how language distinguishes among spatial entities. Descriptive and experimental studies first propose a classification of entities, which accounts for both static and dynam...
computer science
15,276
Learning Recursive Segments for Discourse Parsing
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Automatically detecting discourse segments is an important preliminary step towards full discourse parsing. Previous research on discourse segmentation have relied on the assumption that elementary discourse units (EDUs) in a document always form a linear sequence (i.e., they can never be nested). Unfortunately, this a...
computer science
15,277
Symmetric categorial grammar: residuation and Galois connections
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The Lambek-Grishin calculus is a symmetric extension of the Lambek calculus: in addition to the residuated family of product, left and right division operations of Lambek's original calculus, one also considers a family of coproduct, right and left difference operations, related to the former by an arrow-reversing dual...
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15,278
For the sake of simplicity: Unsupervised extraction of lexical simplifications from Wikipedia
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We report on work in progress on extracting lexical simplifications (e.g., "collaborate" -> "work together"), focusing on utilizing edit histories in Simple English Wikipedia for this task. We consider two main approaches: (1) deriving simplification probabilities via an edit model that accounts for a mixture of differ...
computer science
15,279
Don't 'have a clue'? Unsupervised co-learning of downward-entailing operators
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Researchers in textual entailment have begun to consider inferences involving 'downward-entailing operators', an interesting and important class of lexical items that change the way inferences are made. Recent work proposed a method for learning English downward-entailing operators that requires access to a high-qualit...
computer science
15,280
Statistical Sign Language Machine Translation: from English written text to American Sign Language Gloss
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This works aims to design a statistical machine translation from English text to American Sign Language (ASL). The system is based on Moses tool with some modifications and the results are synthesized through a 3D avatar for interpretation. First, we translate the input text to gloss, a written form of ASL. Second, we ...
computer science
15,281
Grammatical Relations of Myanmar Sentences Augmented by Transformation-Based Learning of Function Tagging
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In this paper we describe function tagging using Transformation Based Learning (TBL) for Myanmar that is a method of extensions to the previous statistics-based function tagger. Contextual and lexical rules (developed using TBL) were critical in achieving good results. First, we describe a method for expressing lexical...
computer science
15,282
Creating a Live, Public Short Message Service Corpus: The NUS SMS Corpus
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Short Message Service (SMS) messages are largely sent directly from one person to another from their mobile phones. They represent a means of personal communication that is an important communicative artifact in our current digital era. As most existing studies have used private access to SMS corpora, comparative studi...
computer science
15,283
Visualization and Analysis of Frames in Collections of Messages: Content Analysis and the Measurement of Meaning
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A step-to-step introduction is provided on how to generate a semantic map from a collection of messages (full texts, paragraphs or statements) using freely available software and/or SPSS for the relevant statistics and the visualization. The techniques are discussed in the various theoretical contexts of (i) linguistic...
computer science
15,284
Proof nets for the Lambek-Grishin calculus
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Grishin's generalization of Lambek's Syntactic Calculus combines a non-commutative multiplicative conjunction and its residuals (product, left and right division) with a dual family: multiplicative disjunction, right and left difference. Interaction between these two families takes the form of linear distributivity pri...
computer science
15,285
Transition-Based Dependency Parsing With Pluggable Classifiers
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In principle, the design of transition-based dependency parsers makes it possible to experiment with any general-purpose classifier without other changes to the parsing algorithm. In practice, however, it often takes substantial software engineering to bridge between the different representations used by two software p...
computer science
15,286
Detecting English Writing Styles For Non-native Speakers
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Analyzing writing styles of non-native speakers is a challenging task. In this paper, we analyze the comments written in the discussion pages of the English Wikipedia. Using learning algorithms, we are able to detect native speakers' writing style with an accuracy of 74%. Given the diversity of the English Wikipedia us...
computer science
15,287
A Principled Approach to Grammars for Controlled Natural Languages and Predictive Editors
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Controlled natural languages (CNL) with a direct mapping to formal logic have been proposed to improve the usability of knowledge representation systems, query interfaces, and formal specifications. Predictive editors are a popular approach to solve the problem that CNLs are easy to read but hard to write. Such predict...
computer science
15,288
Semantic Polarity of Adjectival Predicates in Online Reviews
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Web users produce more and more documents expressing opinions. Because these have become important resources for customers and manufacturers, many have focused on them. Opinions are often expressed through adjectives with positive or negative semantic values. In extracting information from users' opinion in online revi...
computer science
15,289
Improving Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI) by Incorporating Significant Co-occurrence
cs.CL
We design a new co-occurrence based word association measure by incorporating the concept of significant cooccurrence in the popular word association measure Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI). By extensive experiments with a large number of publicly available datasets we show that the newly introduced measure performs...
computer science
15,290
Intelligent Hybrid Man-Machine Translation Quality Estimation
cs.CL
Inferring evaluation scores based on human judgments is invaluable compared to using current evaluation metrics which are not suitable for real-time applications e.g. post-editing. However, these judgments are much more expensive to collect especially from expert translators, compared to evaluation based on indicators ...
computer science
15,291
Improving the quality of Gujarati-Hindi Machine Translation through part-of-speech tagging and stemmer-assisted transliteration
cs.CL
Machine Translation for Indian languages is an emerging research area. Transliteration is one such module that we design while designing a translation system. Transliteration means mapping of source language text into the target language. Simple mapping decreases the efficiency of overall translation system. We propose...
computer science
15,292
Part of Speech Tagging of Marathi Text Using Trigram Method
cs.CL
In this paper we present a Marathi part of speech tagger. It is a morphologically rich language. It is spoken by the native people of Maharashtra. The general approach used for development of tagger is statistical using trigram Method. The main concept of trigram is to explore the most likely POS for a token based on g...
computer science
15,293
Rule Based Transliteration Scheme for English to Punjabi
cs.CL
Machine Transliteration has come out to be an emerging and a very important research area in the field of machine translation. Transliteration basically aims to preserve the phonological structure of words. Proper transliteration of name entities plays a very significant role in improving the quality of machine transla...
computer science
15,294
Clustering Algorithm for Gujarati Language
cs.CL
Natural language processing area is still under research. But now a day it is on platform for worldwide researchers. Natural language processing includes analyzing the language based on its structure and then tagging of each word appropriately with its grammar base. Here we have 50,000 tagged words set and we try to cl...
computer science
15,295
Human and Automatic Evaluation of English-Hindi Machine Translation
cs.CL
For the past 60 years, Research in machine translation is going on. For the development in this field, a lot of new techniques are being developed each day. As a result, we have witnessed development of many automatic machine translators. A manager of machine translation development project needs to know the performanc...
computer science
15,296
Learning Frames from Text with an Unsupervised Latent Variable Model
cs.CL
We develop a probabilistic latent-variable model to discover semantic frames---types of events and their participants---from corpora. We present a Dirichlet-multinomial model in which frames are latent categories that explain the linking of verb-subject-object triples, given document-level sparsity. We analyze what the...
computer science
15,297
Improving the Quality of MT Output using Novel Name Entity Translation Scheme
cs.CL
This paper presents a novel approach to machine translation by combining the state of art name entity translation scheme. Improper translation of name entities lapse the quality of machine translated output. In this work, name entities are transliterated by using statistical rule based approach. This paper describes th...
computer science
15,298
Development of Marathi Part of Speech Tagger Using Statistical Approach
cs.CL
Part-of-speech (POS) tagging is a process of assigning the words in a text corresponding to a particular part of speech. A fundamental version of POS tagging is the identification of words as nouns, verbs, adjectives etc. For processing natural languages, Part of Speech tagging is a prominent tool. It is one of the sim...
computer science
15,299
Subjective and Objective Evaluation of English to Urdu Machine Translation
cs.CL
Machine translation is research based area where evaluation is very important phenomenon for checking the quality of MT output. The work is based on the evaluation of English to Urdu Machine translation. In this research work we have evaluated the translation quality of Urdu language which has been translated by using ...
computer science
15,300
Rule Based Stemmer in Urdu
cs.CL
Urdu is a combination of several languages like Arabic, Hindi, English, Turkish, Sanskrit etc. It has a complex and rich morphology. This is the reason why not much work has been done in Urdu language processing. Stemming is used to convert a word into its respective root form. In stemming, we separate the suffix and p...
computer science
15,301
Stemmers for Tamil Language: Performance Analysis
cs.CL
Stemming is the process of extracting root word from the given inflection word and also plays significant role in numerous application of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Tamil Language raises several challenges to NLP, since it has rich morphological patterns than other languages. The rule based approach light-stemm...
computer science