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ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Reducing the Annotation Effort for Letter-to-Phoneme Conversion
Letter-to-phoneme (L2P) conversion is the process of producing a correct phoneme sequence for a word, given its letters. It is often desirable to reduce the quantity of training d...
Kenneth Dwyer, Grzegorz Kondrak
ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Cross Language Dependency Parsing using a Bilingual Lexicon
This paper proposes an approach to enhance dependency parsing in a language by using a translated treebank from another language. A simple statistical machine translation method, ...
Hai Zhao, Yan Song, Chunyu Kit, Guodong Zhou
ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Conundrums in Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State-of-the-Art
We aim to shed light on the state-of-the-art in NP coreference resolution by teasing apart the differences in the MUC and ACE task definitions, the assumptions made in evaluation ...
Veselin Stoyanov, Nathan Gilbert, Claire Cardie, E...
ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Transliteration Alignment
This paper studies transliteration alignment, its evaluation metrics and applications. We propose a new evaluation metric, alignment entropy, grounded on the information theory, t...
Vladimir Pervouchine, Haizhou Li, Bo Lin
ACL
2009
15 years 4 months ago
Where's the Verb? Correcting Machine Translation During Question Answering
When a multi-lingual question-answering (QA) system provides an answer that has been incorrectly translated, it is very likely to be regarded as irrelevant. In this paper, we prop...
Wei-Yun Ma, Kathy McKeown