A lightweight and high performance monolingual word aligner

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 702-707

  Yao, Xuchen ^a   Van Durme, Benjamin ^a   Callison Burch, Chris ^b   Clark, Peter ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c VULCAN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; EXTERNAL RESOURCES; FAST ALIGNMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGS; WORDNET;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84907307072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (23)

1. Mohit Bansal, Chris Quirk, and Robert Moore. 2011. Gappy phrasal alignment by agreement. In Proceedings of ACL, Portland, Oregon, June.
2. P. Blunsom and T. Cohn. 2006. Discriminative word alignment with conditional random fields. In Proceedings of ACL2006, pages 65-72.
3. Chris Brockett. 2007. Aligning the RTE 2006 corpus. Technical report, Microsoft Research.
4. N. Chambers, D. Cer, T. Grenager, D. Hall, C. Kiddon, B. MacCartney, M.C. de Marneffe, D. Ramage, E. Yeh, and C.D. Manning. 2007. Learning alignments and leveraging natural logic. In Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entail-ment and Paraphrasing, pages 165-170.
5. Trevor Cohn, Chris Callison-Burch, and Mirella Lapata. 2008. Constructing corpora for the development and evaluation of paraphrase systems. Com-put. Linguist., 34(4):597-614, December.
6. Marie-Catherine De Marneffe and Christopher D Manning. 2008. The stanford typed dependencies representation. In Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Framework and Cross-Domain Parser Evaluation, pages 1-8.
7. John DeNero and Dan Klein. 2007. Tailoring word alignments to syntactic machine translation. In Proceedings of ACL2007.
8. C. Fellbaum. 1998. WordNet: An Electronical Lexical Database.
9. Kevin Gimpel and Noah A. Smith. 2010. Softmax-margin crfs: training log-linear models with cost functions. In NAACL 2010, pages 733-736.
10. Michael Heilman and Noah A. Smith. 2010. Tree edit models for recognizing textual entailments, paraphrases, and answers to questions. In Proceedings of NAACL 2010, pages 1011-1019, Los Angeles, California, June.
11. Philipp Koehn. 2010. Statistical Machine Translation. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, USA.
12. Milen Kouylekov and Bernardo Magnini. 2005. Recognizing textual entailment with tree edit distance algorithms. In PASCAL Challenges on RTE, pages 17-20.
13. John D. Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, and Fernando C. N. Pereira. 2001. Conditional random fields: Probabilistic models for segmenting and labeling sequence data. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML '01, pages 282-289, San Francisco, CA, USA.
14. B. MacCartney, M. Galley, and C.D. Manning. 2008. A phrase-based alignment model for natural language inference. In Proceedings of EMNLP2008, pages 802-811.
15. Andrew McCallum, Kedar Bellare, and Fernando Pereira. 2005. A Conditional Random Field for Discriminatively-trained Finite-state String Edit Distance. In Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2005), July.
16. Kathleen McKeown, Sara Rosenthal, Kapil Thadani, and Coleman Moore. 2010. Time-efficient creation of an accurate sentence fusion corpus. In ACL2010 short, pages 317-320.
17. Y. Mehdad. 2009. Automatic cost estimation for tree edit distance using particle swarm optimization. In Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers, pages 289-292.
18. Franz Josef Och and Hermann Ney. 2003. A systematic comparison of various statistical alignment models. Computational linguistics, 29(1):19-51.
19. Vasin Punyakanok, Dan Roth, and Wen T. Yih. 2004. Mapping Dependencies Trees: An Application to Question Answerin. In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
20. Michael Roth and Anette Frank. 2012. Aligning predicates across monolingual comparable texts using graph-based clustering. In Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 171-182, Jeju Island, Korea, July.
21. Kapil Thadani and Kathleen McKeown. 2011. Optimal and syntactically-informed decoding for monolingual phrase-based alignment. In Proceedings of ACL short.
22. Mengqiu Wang and Christopher D. Manning. 2010. Probabilistic tree-edit models with structured latent variables for textual entailment and question answering. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, COLING '10, pages 1164-1172, Stroudsburg, PA, USA.
23. K. Zhang and D. Shasha. 1989. Simple fast algorithms for the editing distance between trees and related problems. SIAM J. Comput., 18(6):1245-1262, December.