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EMNLP
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Effects of Empty Categories on Machine Translation
We examine effects that empty categories have on machine translation. Empty categories are elements in parse trees that lack corresponding overt surface forms (words) such as drop...
Tagyoung Chung, Daniel Gildea
EMNLP
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Classifying Dialogue Acts in One-on-One Live Chats
We explore the task of automatically classifying dialogue acts in 1-on-1 online chat forums, an increasingly popular means of providing customer service. In particular, we investi...
Su Nam Kim, Lawrence Cavedon, Timothy Baldwin
EMNLP
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Unsupervised Discovery of Negative Categories in Lexicon Bootstrapping
Multi-category bootstrapping algorithms were developed to reduce semantic drift. By extracting multiple semantic lexicons simultaneously, a category's search space may be res...
Tara McIntosh
EMNLP
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Efficient Graph-Based Semi-Supervised Learning of Structured Tagging Models
We describe a new scalable algorithm for semi-supervised training of conditional random fields (CRF) and its application to partof-speech (POS) tagging. The algorithm uses a simil...
Amarnag Subramanya, Slav Petrov, Fernando Pereira
EMNLP
2010
15 years 4 months ago
Latent-Descriptor Clustering for Unsupervised POS Induction
We present a novel approach to distributionalonly, fully unsupervised, POS tagging, based on an adaptation of the EM algorithm for the estimation of a Gaussian mixture. In this ap...
Michael Lamar, Yariv Maron, Elie Bienenstock