... 19-24, 2011.c2011 Association for Computational Linguistics Local andGlobalAlgorithmsforDisambiguationto Wikipedia Lev Ratinov1Dan Roth1Doug Downey2Mike Anderson31University of Illinois ... hyperlinks to t are similar to m’s context in d. For each Wikipedia title t, we construct a top-200 token TF-IDF summary of the Wikipedia paget, which we denote as T ext(t) and a top-200 to- ken ... disambiguation. 7 ConclusionsWe have formalized the Disambiguation to Wikipedia (D2W) task as an optimization problemwith localandglobal variants, and analyzed thestrengths and weaknesses of each. Our...
... Student Session, pages 6–11,Portland, OR, USA 19-24 June 2011.c2011 Association for Computational LinguisticsSentence Ordering Driven by LocalandGlobal Coherence for Summary Generation Renxian ... grouped according to their conceptual relatedness before being ordered on two levels: group-level ordering and sentence-level ordering, which capture global coherence andlocal coherence in ... identification and interpretation are conflated to sentence selection and concerned with summary informativeness. In comparison, summary generation addresses summary readability and a frequently...
... lexicalizedparser for specific disambiguation problemslike RC and PP is quite high compared to recent results for stand-alone PP disambigua-tion. For example, (Toutanova et al., 2004)achieve a performance ... (above) and low attachment (below) for Example 1.Table 3 shows queries and mutual informa-tion values for Example 1. The highest valuesare 12.2 for high attachment (mechanism) and 3 for low ... techniques and wordnet hierarchies. In4th Discourse Anaphora and Anaphora Resolu-tion Colloquium.Kristina Toutanova, Christopher D. Manning, and Andrew Y. Ng. 2004. Learning random walkmodels for...
... random fields for relationallearning. In Lise Getoor and Ben Taskar, editors,Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning. MITPress.Paul Taylor. 2005. Hidden Markov Models for grapheme to ... updateweights according to Equation 3. To find the n-bestanswers, we modify the HMM and monotone search algorithms to keep track of the n-best phonemes at909Maximilian Bisani and Hermann Ney. 2002. ... weight vector, αnis the new weight vector, and (y, ˆy) is the loss function.Since our direct objective is to produce the cor-rect phoneme sequence for a given word, the mostintuitive way to define...
... for Pronunciation byAnalogy (PbA) (Marchand and Damper, 2005) onthe same corpus. Marchand and Damper reported aprocessing time of several hours for c4), two days for c2) and several days for ... integrated with an automatic alignmentprocedure. We therefore first aligned letters and phonemes in a separate, semi-automatic step. Eachletter was aligned with zero to two phonemes and, in the integrated ... is that German syllables can be very long and therefore sparse, often causing the model to back-off to smaller contexts. If the context is too small to cover the syllable, the model cannot decide...
... designed to understand coherent natural language texts. First, they make too heavy and rigorous use of predetermined knowledge schemes relating to the subject matter of texts andto the organization ... directive dialogues, and still more concretely, the mechanisms needed to understand interactions which present requests and orders in such dialogues, on the one hand, and the possible reactions, ... processes and decision makings of human understanders. We do not want to claim that global schemes are not needed at all in discourse understanding. But there is a theoretical and empirical...
... Association for Computational LinguisticsTowards Developing Generation Algorithmsfor Text -to- Text ApplicationsRadu Soricut and Daniel MarcuInformation Sciences InstituteUniversity of Southern California4676 ... operator. Vertices to andto result from the expansion ofthe two operators, respectively. These latter ver-tices are also shown to have rank 1, as opposed to rank 0 (not shown) assigned to all ... otherhand, for intersecting an IDL-expression(sequence of words) with a trigram lan-guage model, we have , , and , and therefore an generation algorithm.In general, for IDL-expressions for which...
... Qualitative and quantitative analysis for solutions to a class of Volterra-Fredholm typedifference equation. Advances in Difference Equations 2011 2011:30.Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefi ... necessary to study their qualitative and quantitative propertiessuch as boundedness, uniqueness, and continuous dependence on initial data. T heGronwall-Bellman inequality [5,6] and its various ... generalizedinequalities (for example, see [7-16] and the references therein) have been establishedin the literature including the known Ou-lang’s inequality [7], which provide handytools in the study...
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... estimate the global water saving at 352×109 m3/yr, of which 63% related to international trade in cereals and cereal products, 19% to oil crops, 13% to livestock products and 5% to pulses and other ... and Hung, 2002). The water footprint of the Dutch community for example also refers to the use of water for rice production in Thailand (insofar as the rice is exported to the Netherlands for ... Nine reasons forglobal arrangements in order to cope with local water problems A.Y. Hoekstra – July 2006 21. The water footprints of Morocco and the Netherlands A.Y. Hoekstra and A.K. Chapagain...