... important subtask for many natural language processing applications,such as partial parsing, information retrieval andmachine translation. A baseNP is a simple nounphrase that does not contain other ... pp.218-224.COLING-ACL’98Lance A. Ramshaw and Michael P. Marcus ( InPress). Text chunking using transformation-basedlearning. In Natural Language Processing UsingVery large Corpora. Kluwer. Originally appearedin ... Treebank II,and the definition of baseNP is the same asRamshaw’s, Table 1 summarizes the averageperformance on both baseNP tagging and POStagging, each section of the whole PennTreebank was...
... represented by a bag-of-word. Among the words, there is a topic term Avatar (t1) occurring twice, i.e. Avatar in A and Avatar in C, and two senti-ment words comfortable (o1) and favorite (o2) ... 4.1.1 Benchmark Datasets Our experiments are based on the Chinese benchmark dataset, COAE08 (Zhao et al., 2008). COAE dataset is the benchmark data set for the opinion retrieval track in the ... Vital <性能 不> Performance No 1373fortable (o1) are also regarded as relevant opi-nion mistakenly, creating a false positive. In re-ality comfortable (o1) describes “the seats...
... needs a word dictionary and takes long time for searching many character combinations. 614.2 Experiment Results and Analyses We used two separate Eumjeol n-grams as lan-guage models for experiments. ... be divided into statistical algorithms and rule-based algorithms. Statistical algorithms generally use character n-gram (Eojeol1 or Eumjeol2 n-gram in Korean) (Kang and Woo, 2001; Kwon, ... single Jaso tran- 3 Jaso is a Korean character. 4 ‘Transition’ means the correct character is changed to other character due to some causes, such as typographical errors. sition case (나와욧Æ나와요...
... river basin management and/or ecosystem-based river basin management (Nakamura, 2003). Embedded in these approaches are the concepts of participatory management and adaptive management (Miser and ... actions. 1.2.3. Integrated management and policy analysis Integrated management Rapid changes of objectives and methodological approaches towards the management of natural resources and ... criterion. A performance criterion defines what aspect of the model we want to examine and what references are used for this examination. For example, a certain performance criterion was drafted as...
... systemlearns this as a non-transliteration but it is wronglyannotated as a transliteration in the gold standard.Arabic nouns have an article “al” attached to themwhich is translated in English as ... InternationalLanguage Resources and Evaluation (LREC’10), Val-letta, Malta.Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Kenneth Dwyer, Shane Bergsma,Aditya Bhargava, Qing Dou, Mi-Young Kim, andGrzegorz Kondrak. ... non-transliterations by N.3.2 Implementation DetailsWe use the Forward-Backward algorithm to estimatethe counts of multigrams. The algorithm has a for- ward variable α and a backward variable...
... a consensus translation technique to bootstrap parallel data using off-the-shelf translation sys-tems for training a hierarchical statistical transla-tion model for general domain instant ... normalization as a translation problem from the SMS language to the English language1 and we propose to adapt a phrase-based statistical MT model for the task. Evaluation by 5-fold cross validation ... SMS normalization. 2.3 SMS Normalization versus Text Para-phrasing Problem Others may regard SMS normalization as a para-phrasing problem. Broadly speaking, paraphrases capture core aspects...
... block-based model for statis-tical machine translation. A block is a pair of phraseswhich are translations of each other. For example, Fig. 1shows an Arabic-English translation example that usesblocks. ... Koehn, Franz-Josef Och, and Daniel Marcu.2003. Statistical Phrase-Based Translation. In Proc.of the HLT-NAACL 2003 conference, pages 127–133,Edmonton, Canada, May.J. Lafferty, A. McCallum, and ... Annual Conf. of the Association for Computa-tional Linguistics (ACL 02), pages 311–318, Philadel-phia, PA, July.Charles Schafer and David Yarowsky. 2003. Statistical Machine Translation Using Coercive...
... evaluation metrics are able to closely approximate human evaluations for various applications. Given an application app and an evaluation guideline package eval, the faithfulness/compactness ... separately evaluated. Each version was evaluated by a human evaluator, with no reference answer available. For this evaluation 115 test questions were used, and the human evaluator was asked ... same family of metrics explain best the variations obtained with human evaluations, according to the application being evaluated (Machine Translation, Automatic Summarization, and Automatic...
... Agreement in Arabic:Gender, Number and RationalitySarah Alkuhlani and Nizar HabashCenter for Computational Learning SystemsColumbia University{salkuhlani,habash}@ccls.columbia.eduAbstractWe ... a Large-Scale Annotated Arabic Corpus. InNEMLAR Conference on Arabic Language Resourcesand Tools, pages 102–109, Cairo, Egypt.Yuval Marton, Nizar Habash, and Owen Rambow. 2011.Improving Arabic ... Rambow,Yuval Marton, Tim Buckwalter, Otakar Smrž, ReemFaraj, and May Ahmar for helpful discussions andfeedback. We also would like to especially thankAhmed El Kholy and Jamila El-Gizuli for...
... AStatistical Parser for Czech* Michael Collins AT&T Labs-Research, Shannon Laboratory, 180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932 mcollins@research, att.com Jan Haj i~. Institute ... of a morphological analy- sis program, and also with the single one of those tags that astatistical POS tagging program had predicted to be the correct tag (Haji~ and Hladka, 1998). Table ... morphological analyzer. The PDT also contains machine-assigned tags and lemmas for each word (using a tagger de- scribed in (Haji~ and Hladka, 1998)). For evaluation purposes, the PDT has been...
... evaluate data from a studystatistically forces an investigator to sharpen the focus of the study. It makes one translateintuitive ideas into an analytical model capable of generating data that ... 3.3. A qualitative variable has values that are intrinsically nonnumerical (cate-gorical).As suggested earlier, the values of a qualitative variable can always be put into numericalform. The ... firsttwo authors and add the new authors in alphabetical sequence.This second edition adds a chapter on randomized trials and another on longitudinal dataanalysis. Substantial changes have been made...
... Cunchillos, Juan-Pablo Vita, and Jose-´Angel Zamora. 2002. Ugaritic data bank. CD-ROM.Gregoria del Olo Lete and Joaqu´ın Sanmart´ın. 2004. A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alpha-betic ... morphologicalsegmentation was carried out with the guidance of a standard Ugaritic grammar (Schniedewind andHunt, 2007). Although Ugaritic is an inflectionalrather than agglutinative language, in ... thisresearch has similar goals, it typically builds oninformation or resources unavailable for ancienttexts, such as comparable corpora, a seed lexi-con, and cognate information (Fung and McKe-own,...
... common approach is to build imagepyramids by repeated blurring and downsampling (Lucasand Kanade 1981; Glazer et al. 1983;Burtetal.1983;Enkelman 1986; Anandan 1989; Black and Anandan 1996;Battiti ... equations are linear in du and dvand solved using a sparse linear solver. The estimates of uand v are then updated appropriately and the next iterationapplied.One disadvantage of variational algorithms ... the data and prior terms through the introductionof two sets of flow parameters, say (udata,vdata) for the dataterm and (uprior,vprior) for the prior:EGlobal= EData(udata,vdata)...
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... terms and locating instances of time where the count of chain starts and ends (boun-dary strength) achieves local maxima. Chan et al. (2007) enhanced this approach through statistical modeling ... (4) 4 Modeling of Lexical Chain Features 4.1 Chain starts and ends We follow (Chan et al. 2007) to model the lexi-cal chain starts and ends at a story boundary with a statistical distribution. ... consideration and statistically modeled. 2 Experimental Setup Experiments are conducted using data from the TDT-2 Voice of America Mandarin broadcast. In particular, we only use the data from...