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... translations in another language. By retrieving and identifying such translation counterparts onthe Web, we can cope with the OOV problem. Consider the technical term named-entity recognition. The ... the Chinese translations for named-entity recognition are probably not some parallel corpus or dictionary, but rather mixed-code webpages. The following example is a snippet returned by the ... translation, and E: incorrect translation. Table 2 shows some translations generated by the full system that does not match the single reference translation. Half of the translations are correct...
... after the first iteration, itis difficult to distinguish the quality of extractionpatterns based, for instance, only onthe percent-age of the seed set that they extract. The secondreason is the ... extraction. The architecture is sim-ilar to other instances of bootstrapping for infor-mation extraction. The main processing stages are the acquisition of contextual extraction patternsgiven the ... each other if theircomponents are present in an external hand-builtontology (i.e., WordNet), and the similarity among the components is high over the ontology. Sincegeneral-purpose ontologies,...
... analyzed the result on a description-by-description basis, that is, all the generated descriptionswere considered independent of one another. The ratioof correct descriptions, disregarding the ... improved, and the coverage was comparable with that for the Nichi-gai dictionary. On the other hand, in the case where random choicewas performed, the Nichigai dictionary and the Web- based encyclopedia ... foundthat each of the TREC questions can be recast as ei-ther a single axis or a combination of axes. They alsofound that out of the 200 TREC questions, 64 ques-tions (approximately one third) were...
... 2009).Running the new IGT detection onthe original threethousand ODIN documents, the number of IGT in-stances increases from 41,581 to 189,244. We then ran the new language ID algorithm onthe IGTs, ... IGT).4 The Demo PresentationOur focus in this demonstration will be onthe queryfeatures of ODIN. In addition, however, we will alsogive some background on how ODIN was built, showhow we see the ... Completionof this migration is expected sometime in April 2009.43Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Demonstrations Session, pages 41–44,Athens, Greece, 3 April 2009.c2009 Association for Computational...
... translation sys-tems onthe one hand, and authors and translators—i.e. the users of the systems onthe other.In the MOLTO project (Multilingual On- Line Trans-lation)3, we have the goal to ... for three years.1 Translation Needs for theWeb The best-known translation tools ontheweb areGoogle translate1and Systran2. They are targeted toconsumers of web documents: users who want ... generating the new set of documentscan be performed by editing any of the three represen-tations: the tree, the English version, or the French ver-sion. This functionality is implemented in the GF...
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