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ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Setting Up User Action Probabilities in User Simulations for Dialog System Development
User simulations are shown to be useful in spoken dialog system development. Since most current user simulations deploy probability models to mimic human user behaviors, how to se...
Hua Ai, Diane J. Litman
ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Toward Smaller, Faster, and Better Hierarchical Phrase-based SMT
We investigate the use of Fisher's exact significance test for pruning the translation table of a hierarchical phrase-based statistical machine translation system. In additio...
Mei Yang, Jing Zheng
ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Investigating Pitch Accent Recognition in Non-native Speech
Acquisition of prosody, in addition to vocabulary and grammar, is essential for language learners. However, it has received less attention in instruction. To enable automatic iden...
Gina-Anne Levow
ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
English-Chinese Bi-Directional OOV Translation based on Web Mining and Supervised Learning
In Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), Out-of-Vocabulary (OOV) detection and translation pair relevance evaluation still remain as key problems. In this paper, an English...
Yuejie Zhang, Yang Wang, Xiangyang Xue
ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Demonstration of Joshua: An Open Source Toolkit for Parsing-based Machine Translation
We describe Joshua (Li et al., 2009a)1, an open source toolkit for statistical machine translation. Joshua implements all of the algorithms required for translation via synchronou...
Zhifei Li, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Dyer, Juri ...