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Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Haizhou Li | Chin-Yew Lin | Miles Osborne | Gary Geunbae Lee | Jong C. Park

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Learning to Translate with Multiple Objectives
Kevin Duh | Katsuhito Sudoh | Xianchao Wu | Hajime Tsukada | Masaaki Nagata

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Joint Feature Selection in Distributed Stochastic Learning for Large-Scale Discriminative Training in SMT
Patrick Simianer | Stefan Riezler | Chris Dyer

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Prediction of Learning Curves in Machine Translation
Prasanth Kolachina | Nicola Cancedda | Marc Dymetman | Sriram Venkatapathy

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Probabilistic Integration of Partial Lexical Information for Noise Robust Haptic Voice Recognition
Khe Chai Sim

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A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Acoustic Model Discovery
Chia-ying Lee | James Glass

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Automated Essay Scoring Based on Finite State Transducer: towards ASR Transcription of Oral English Speech
Xingyuan Peng | Dengfeng Ke | Bo Xu

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Text-level Discourse Parsing with Rich Linguistic Features
Vanessa Wei Feng | Graeme Hirst

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PDTB-style Discourse Annotation of Chinese Text
Yuping Zhou | Nianwen Xue

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SITS: A Hierarchical Nonparametric Model using Speaker Identity for Topic Segmentation in Multiparty Conversations
Viet-An Nguyen | Jordan Boyd-Graber | Philip Resnik

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Extracting Narrative Timelines as Temporal Dependency Structures
Oleksandr Kolomiyets | Steven Bethard | Marie-Francine Moens

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Labeling Documents with Timestamps: Learning from their Time Expressions
Nathanael Chambers

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Temporally Anchored Relation Extraction
Guillermo Garrido | Anselmo Peñas | Bernardo Cabaleiro | Álvaro Rodrigo

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Efficient Tree-based Approximation for Entailment Graph Learning
Jonathan Berant | Ido Dagan | Meni Adler | Jacob Goldberger

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Learning High-Level Planning from Text
S.R.K. Branavan | Nate Kushman | Tao Lei | Regina Barzilay

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Distributional Semantics in Technicolor
Elia Bruni | Gemma Boleda | Marco Baroni | Nam-Khanh Tran

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A Class-Based Agreement Model for Generating Accurately Inflected Translations
Spence Green | John DeNero

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Deciphering Foreign Language by Combining Language Models and Context Vectors
Malte Nuhn | Arne Mauser | Hermann Ney

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Machine Translation without Words through Substring Alignment
Graham Neubig | Taro Watanabe | Shinsuke Mori | Tatsuya Kawahara

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Fast Syntactic Analysis for Statistical Language Modeling via Substructure Sharing and Uptraining
Ariya Rastrow | Mark Dredze | Sanjeev Khudanpur

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Bootstrapping a Unified Model of Lexical and Phonetic Acquisition
Micha Elsner | Sharon Goldwater | Jacob Eisenstein

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Discriminative Pronunciation Modeling: A Large-Margin, Feature-Rich Approach
Hao Tang | Joseph Keshet | Karen Livescu

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Discriminative Strategies to Integrate Multiword Expression Recognition and Parsing
Matthieu Constant | Anthony Sigogne | Patrick Watrin

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Utilizing Dependency Language Models for Graph-based Dependency Parsing Models
Wenliang Chen | Min Zhang | Haizhou Li

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Spectral Learning of Latent-Variable PCFGs
Shay B. Cohen | Karl Stratos | Michael Collins | Dean P. Foster | Lyle Ungar

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Reducing Approximation and Estimation Errors for Chinese Lexical Processing with Heterogeneous Annotations
Weiwei Sun | Xiaojun Wan

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Capturing Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Lexical Relations: Towards Accurate Chinese Part-of-Speech Tagging
Weiwei Sun | Hans Uszkoreit

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Fast Online Training with Frequency-Adaptive Learning Rates for Chinese Word Segmentation and New Word Detection
Xu Sun | Houfeng Wang | Wenjie Li

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Verb Classification using Distributional Similarity in Syntactic and Semantic Structures
Danilo Croce | Alessandro Moschitti | Roberto Basili | Martha Palmer

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Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Information Retrieval
Zhi Zhong | Hwee Tou Ng

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Efficient Search for Transformation-based Inference
Asher Stern | Roni Stern | Ido Dagan | Ariel Felner

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Maximum Expected BLEU Training of Phrase and Lexicon Translation Models
Xiaodong He | Li Deng

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Learning Translation Consensus with Structured Label Propagation
Shujie Liu | Chi-Ho Li | Mu Li | Ming Zhou

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Smaller Alignment Models for Better Translations: Unsupervised Word Alignment with the l0-norm
Ashish Vaswani | Liang Huang | David Chiang

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Modeling Review Comments
Arjun Mukherjee | Bing Liu

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A Joint Model for Discovery of Aspects in Utterances
Asli Celikyilmaz | Dilek Hakkani-Tur

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Aspect Extraction through Semi-Supervised Modeling
Arjun Mukherjee | Bing Liu

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Learning to “Read Between the Lines” using Bayesian Logic Programs
Sindhu Raghavan | Raymond Mooney | Hyeonseo Ku

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Collective Generation of Natural Image Descriptions
Polina Kuznetsova | Vicente Ordonez | Alexander Berg | Tamara Berg | Yejin Choi

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Concept-to-text Generation via Discriminative Reranking
Ioannis Konstas | Mirella Lapata

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A Discriminative Hierarchical Model for Fast Coreference at Large Scale
Michael Wick | Sameer Singh | Andrew McCallum

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Coreference Semantics from Web Features
Mohit Bansal | Dan Klein

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Subgroup Detection in Ideological Discussions
Amjad Abu-Jbara | Pradeep Dasigi | Mona Diab | Dragomir Radev

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Cross-Domain Co-Extraction of Sentiment and Topic Lexicons
Fangtao Li | Sinno Jialin Pan | Ou Jin | Qiang Yang | Xiaoyan Zhu

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Learning Syntactic Verb Frames using Graphical Models
Thomas Lippincott | Anna Korhonen | Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha

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Fast Online Lexicon Learning for Grounded Language Acquisition
David Chen

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Bayesian Symbol-Refined Tree Substitution Grammars for Syntactic Parsing
Hiroyuki Shindo | Yusuke Miyao | Akinori Fujino | Masaaki Nagata

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String Re-writing Kernel
Fan Bu | Hang Li | Xiaoyan Zhu

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Translation Model Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation with Monolingual Topic Information
Jinsong Su | Hua Wu | Haifeng Wang | Yidong Chen | Xiaodong Shi | Huailin Dong | Qun Liu

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A Statistical Model for Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Transliteration Mining
Hassan Sajjad | Alexander Fraser | Helmut Schmid

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Modified Distortion Matrices for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
Arianna Bisazza | Marcello Federico

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Semantic Parsing with Bayesian Tree Transducers
Bevan Jones | Mark Johnson | Sharon Goldwater

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Dependency Hashing for n-best CCG Parsing
Dominick Ng | James R. Curran

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Strong Lexicalization of Tree Adjoining Grammars
Andreas Maletti | Joost Engelfriet

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Tweet Recommendation with Graph Co-Ranking
Rui Yan | Mirella Lapata | Xiaoming Li

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Joint Inference of Named Entity Recognition and Normalization for Tweets
Xiaohua Liu | Ming Zhou | Xiangyang Zhou | Zhongyang Fu | Furu Wei

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Finding Bursty Topics from Microblogs
Qiming Diao | Jing Jiang | Feida Zhu | Ee-Peng Lim

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Spice it up? Mining Refinements to Online Instructions from User Generated Content
Gregory Druck | Bo Pang

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Sentence Dependency Tagging in Online Question Answering Forums
Zhonghua Qu | Yang Liu

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Mining Entity Types from Query Logs via User Intent Modeling
Patrick Pantel | Thomas Lin | Michael Gamon

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Cross-Lingual Mixture Model for Sentiment Classification
Xinfan Meng | Furu Wei | Xiaohua Liu | Ming Zhou | Ge Xu | Houfeng Wang

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Community Answer Summarization for Multi-Sentence Question with Group L1 Regularization
Wen Chan | Xiangdong Zhou | Wei Wang | Tat-Seng Chua

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Error Mining on Dependency Trees
Claire Gardent | Shashi Narayan

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Computational Approaches to Sentence Completion
Geoffrey Zweig | John C. Platt | Christopher Meek | Christopher J.C. Burges | Ainur Yessenalina | Qiang Liu

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Iterative Viterbi A* Algorithm for K-Best Sequential Decoding
Zhiheng Huang | Yi Chang | Bo Long | Jean-Francois Crespo | Anlei Dong | Sathiya Keerthi | Su-Lin Wu

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Bootstrapping via Graph Propagation
Max Whitney | Anoop Sarkar

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Selective Sharing for Multilingual Dependency Parsing
Tahira Naseem | Regina Barzilay | Amir Globerson

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The Creation of a Corpus of English Metalanguage
Shomir Wilson

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Crosslingual Induction of Semantic Roles
Ivan Titov | Alexandre Klementiev

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Head-driven Transition-based Parsing with Top-down Prediction
Katsuhiko Hayashi | Taro Watanabe | Masayuki Asahara | Yuji Matsumoto

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MIX Is Not a Tree-Adjoining Language
Makoto Kanazawa | Sylvain Salvati

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Exploiting Multiple Treebanks for Parsing with Quasi-synchronous Grammars
Zhenghua Li | Ting Liu | Wanxiang Che

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A Probabilistic Model for Canonicalizing Named Entity Mentions
Dani Yogatama | Yanchuan Sim | Noah A. Smith

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Multilingual Named Entity Recognition using Parallel Data and Metadata from Wikipedia
Sungchul Kim | Kristina Toutanova | Hwanjo Yu

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A Computational Approach to the Automation of Creative Naming
Gözde Özbal | Carlo Strapparava

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Unsupervised Relation Discovery with Sense Disambiguation
Limin Yao | Sebastian Riedel | Andrew McCallum

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Reducing Wrong Labels in Distant Supervision for Relation Extraction
Shingo Takamatsu | Issei Sato | Hiroshi Nakagawa

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Finding Salient Dates for Building Thematic Timelines
Rémy Kessler | Xavier Tannier | Caroline Hagège | Véronique Moriceau | André Bittar

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Historical Analysis of Legal Opinions with a Sparse Mixed-Effects Latent Variable Model
William Yang Wang | Elijah Mayfield | Suresh Naidu | Jeremiah Dittmar

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A Topic Similarity Model for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
Xinyan Xiao | Deyi Xiong | Min Zhang | Qun Liu | Shouxun Lin

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Modeling Topic Dependencies in Hierarchical Text Categorization
Alessandro Moschitti | Qi Ju | Richard Johansson

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Attacking Parsing Bottlenecks with Unlabeled Data and Relevant Factorizations
Emily Pitler

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Semi-supervised Dependency Parsing using Lexical Affinities
Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel | Alexis Nasr | Joseph Le Roux

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Chinese Comma Disambiguation for Discourse Analysis
Yaqin Yang | Nianwen Xue

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Collective Classification for Fine-grained Information Status
Katja Markert | Yufang Hou | Michael Strube

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Structuring E-Commerce Inventory
Karin Mauge | Khash Rohanimanesh | Jean-David Ruvini

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Named Entity Disambiguation in Streaming Data
Alexandre Davis | Adriano Veloso | Altigran Soares | Alberto Laender | Wagner Meira Jr.

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Big Data versus the Crowd: Looking for Relationships in All the Right Places
Ce Zhang | Feng Niu | Christopher Ré | Jude Shavlik

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Automatic Event Extraction with Structured Preference Modeling
Wei Lu | Dan Roth

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Discriminative Learning for Joint Template Filling
Einat Minkov | Luke Zettlemoyer

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Classifying French Verbs Using French and English Lexical Resources
Ingrid Falk | Claire Gardent | Jean-Charles Lamirel

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Modeling Sentences in the Latent Space
Weiwei Guo | Mona Diab

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Improving Word Representations via Global Context and Multiple Word Prototypes
Eric Huang | Richard Socher | Christopher Manning | Andrew Ng

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Exploiting Social Information in Grounded Language Learning via Grammatical Reduction
Mark Johnson | Katherine Demuth | Michael Frank

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You Had Me at Hello: How Phrasing Affects Memorability
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil | Justin Cheng | Jon Kleinberg | Lillian Lee

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Modeling the Translation of Predicate-Argument Structure for SMT
Deyi Xiong | Min Zhang | Haizhou Li

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A Ranking-based Approach to Word Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation
Nan Yang | Mu Li | Dongdong Zhang | Nenghai Yu

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Character-Level Machine Translation Evaluation for Languages with Ambiguous Word Boundaries
Chang Liu | Hwee Tou Ng

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PORT: a Precision-Order-Recall MT Evaluation Metric for Tuning
Boxing Chen | Roland Kuhn | Samuel Larkin

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Mixing Multiple Translation Models in Statistical Machine Translation
Majid Razmara | George Foster | Baskaran Sankaran | Anoop Sarkar

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Hierarchical Chunk-to-String Translation
Yang Feng | Dongdong Zhang | Mu Li | Qun Liu

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Large-Scale Syntactic Language Modeling with Treelets
Adam Pauls | Dan Klein

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Text Segmentation by Language Using Minimum Description Length
Hiroshi Yamaguchi | Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii

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Improve SMT Quality with Automatically Extracted Paraphrase Rules
Wei He | Hua Wu | Haifeng Wang | Ting Liu

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Ecological Evaluation of Persuasive Messages Using Google AdWords
Marco Guerini | Carlo Strapparava | Oliviero Stock

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Polarity Consistency Checking for Sentiment Dictionaries
Eduard Dragut | Hong Wang | Clement Yu | Prasad Sistla | Weiyi Meng

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Combining Coherence Models and Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics for Summarization Evaluation
Ziheng Lin | Chang Liu | Hwee Tou Ng | Min-Yen Kan

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Sentence Simplification by Monolingual Machine Translation
Sander Wubben | Antal van den Bosch | Emiel Krahmer

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A Cost Sensitive Part-of-Speech Tagging: Differentiating Serious Errors from Minor Errors
Hyun-Je Song | Jeong-Woo Son | Tae-Gil Noh | Seong-Bae Park | Sang-Jo Lee

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A Broad-Coverage Normalization System for Social Media Language
Fei Liu | Fuliang Weng | Xiao Jiang

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Incremental Joint Approach to Word Segmentation, POS Tagging, and Dependency Parsing in Chinese
Jun Hatori | Takuya Matsuzaki | Yusuke Miyao | Jun’ichi Tsujii

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Exploring Deterministic Constraints: from a Constrained English POS Tagger to an Efficient ILP Solution to Chinese Word Segmentation
Qiuye Zhao | Mitch Marcus