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ACL
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Evaluating Machine Translations Using mNCD
This paper introduces mNCD, a method for automatic evaluation of machine translations. The measure is based on normalized compression distance (NCD), a general information theoret...
Marcus Dobrinkat, Tero Tapiovaara, Jaakko Väy...
ACL
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Automatically Generating Term Frequency Induced Taxonomies
We propose a novel method to automatically acquire a term-frequency-based taxonomy from a corpus using an unsupervised method. A term-frequency-based taxonomy is useful for applic...
Karin Murthy, Tanveer A. Faruquie, L. Venkata Subr...
ACL
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Optimizing Question Answering Accuracy by Maximizing Log-Likelihood
In this paper we demonstrate that there is a strong correlation between the Question Answering (QA) accuracy and the log-likelihood of the answer typing component of our statistic...
Matthias H. Heie, Edward W. D. Whittaker, Sadaoki ...
ACL
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Intelligent Selection of Language Model Training Data
We address the problem of selecting nondomain-specific language model training data to build auxiliary language models for use in tasks such as machine translation. Our approach i...
Robert C. Moore, William Lewis
ACL
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Automatically Generating Annotator Rationales to Improve Sentiment Classification
One of the central challenges in sentimentbased text categorization is that not every portion of a document is equally informative for inferring the overall sentiment of the docum...
Ainur Yessenalina, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie