2013

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Breaking Out of Local Optima with Count Transforms and Model Recombination: A Study in Grammar Induction
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Daniel Jurafsky
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2012

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Capitalization Cues Improve Dependency Grammar Induction
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Daniel Jurafsky
Proceedings of the NAACL-HLT Workshop on the Induction of Linguistic Structure

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Three Dependency-and-Boundary Models for Grammar Induction
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Daniel Jurafsky
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

2011

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Deterministic Statistical Mapping of Sentences to Underspecified Semantics
Hiyan Alshawi | Pi-Chuan Chang | Michael Ringgaard
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS 2011)

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Punctuation: Making a Point in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Daniel Jurafsky
Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

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Lateen EM: Unsupervised Training with Multiple Objectives, Applied to Dependency Grammar Induction
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Daniel Jurafsky
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Unsupervised Dependency Parsing without Gold Part-of-Speech Tags
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Angel X. Chang | Daniel Jurafsky
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2010

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Profiting from Mark-Up: Hyper-Text Annotations for Guided Parsing
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Daniel Jurafsky | Hiyan Alshawi
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Uptraining for Accurate Deterministic Question Parsing
Slav Petrov | Pi-Chuan Chang | Michael Ringgaard | Hiyan Alshawi
Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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From Baby Steps to Leapfrog: How “Less is More” in Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Daniel Jurafsky
Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Viterbi Training Improves Unsupervised Dependency Parsing
Valentin I. Spitkovsky | Hiyan Alshawi | Daniel Jurafsky | Christopher D. Manning
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

2003

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Effective Utterance Classification with Unsupervised Phonotactic Models
Hiyan Alshawi
Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2002

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Speech Translation Performance of Statistical Dependency Transduction and Semantic Similarity Transduction
Hiyan Alshawi | Shona Douglas
Proceedings of the ACL-02 Workshop on Speech-to-Speech Translation: Algorithms and Systems

2001

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Variant Transduction: A Method for Rapid Development of Interactive Spoken Interfaces
Hiyan Alshawi | Shona Douglas
Proceedings of the Second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

2000

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Learning dependency translation models as collections of finite state head transducers
Hiyan Alsawi | Srinivas Bangalore | Shona Douglas
Computational Linguistics, Volume 26, Number 1, March 2000

1998

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Automatic Acquisition of Hierarchical Transduction Models for Machine Translation
Hiyan Alshawi | Srinivas Bangalore | Shona Douglas
36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Volume 1

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Automatic Acquisition of Hierarchical Transduction Models for Machine Translation
Hiyan Alshawi | Srinivas Bangalore | Shona Douglas
COLING 1998 Volume 1: The 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

1997

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English-to-Mandarin Speech Translation with Head Transducers
Hiyan Alshawi
Spoken Language Translation

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A Comparison of Head Transducers and Transfer for a Limited Domain Translation Application
Hiyan Alshawi | Adam L. Buchsbaum | Fei Xia
35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1996

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Head Automata and Bilingual Tiling: Translation with Minimal Representations (Invited Talk)
Hiyan Alshawi
34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1994

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INVITED TALK: Qualitative and Quantitative Designs for Speech Translation
Hiyan Alshawi
The Balancing Act: Combining Symbolic and Statistical Approaches to Language

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Training and Scaling Preference Functions for Disambiguation
Hiyan Alshawi | David Carter
Computational Linguistics, Volume 20, Number 4, December 1994

1993

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A Speech to Speech Translation System Built From Standard Components
Manny Rayner | Hiyan Alshawi | Ivan Bretan | David Carter | Vassilios Digalakis | Bjorn Gamback | Jaan Kaja | Jussi Karlgren | Bertil Lyberg | Steve Pulman | Patti Price | Christer Samuelsson
Human Language Technology: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Plainsboro, New Jersey, March 21-24, 1993

1992

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Deriving Database Queries from Logical Forms by Abductive Definition Expansion
Manny Rayner | Hiyan Alshawi
Third Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing

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English-Swedish translation of dialogue software
Hiyan Alshawi | David Carter | Steve Pulman | Manny Rayner | Björn Gambäck
Proceedings of Translating and the Computer 14: Quality standards and the implementation of technology in translation

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Monotonic Semantic Interpretation
Hiyan Alshawi | Richard Crouch
30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1991

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Translation by Quasi Logical Form Transfer
Hiyan Alshawi | David Carter | Manny Rayner | Bjorn Gamback
29th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1990

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Resolving Quasi Logical Forms
Hiyan Alshawi
Computational Linguistics, Volume 16, Number 3, September 1990

1989

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Logical Forms in the Core Language Engine
Hiyan Alshawi | Jan van Eijck
27th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

1987

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Processing Dictionary Definitions with Phrasal Pattern Hierarchies
Hiyan Alshawi
Computational Linguistics, Formerly the American Journal of Computational Linguistics, Volume 13, Numbers 3-4, July-December 1987

1985

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Towards a Dictionary Support Environment for Realtime Parsing
Hiyan Alshawi | Bran Boguraev | Ted Briscoe
Second Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics