Thursday, 27 May 2010

Selected papers at NAACL 2010

Machine Translation

N10-1140 [bib]: Michel Galley; Christopher D. Manning
Accurate Non-Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation

N10-1141 [bib]: John DeNero; Shankar Kumar; Ciprian Chelba; Franz Och
Model Combination for Machine Translation

N10-1127 [bib]: Niyu Ge
A Direct Syntax-Driven Reordering Model for Phrase-Based Machine Translation

N10-1016 [bib]: Deyi Xiong; Min Zhang; Haizhou Li
Learning Translation Boundaries for Phrase-Based Decoding

Sentence Fusion

N10-1044 [bib]: Kathleen McKeown; Sara Rosenthal; Kapil Thadani; Coleman Moore
Time-Efficient Creation of an Accurate Sentence Fusion Corpus

Summarization

N10-1100 [bib]: Beaux Sharifi; Mark-Anthony Hutton; Jugal Kalita
Summarizing Microblogs Automatically

Question Answering

N10-1007 [bib]: Taniya Mishra; Srinivas Bangalore
Qme! : A Speech-based Question-Answering system on Mobile Devices


Monday, 8 March 2010

Social Question Answering

http://vark.com/ - a new social question answering system!

The feature I like most in that system is real-time updating. It means your questions posted on that online system might be answered in terms of real time manner.

More information about Aardvark is in this blog entry (http://mendicantbug.com/2009/03/13/aardvark-and-social-qa/)

That's actually an interesting research direction.

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Cheers,
Vu

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Wikipedia issues

All Wikipedia related issues will be posted here:

Dumps of Wikipedia: http://download.wikimedia.org
Extraction of plain text corpus from Wikipedia: http://blog.afterthedeadline.com/2009/12/04/generating-a-plain-text-corpus-from-wikipedia/

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Cheers,
Vu