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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Hybrid Approach to Statistical Machine Translation Between Standard and Dialectal Varieties
Using statistical machine translation (SMT) for dialectal varieties usually suffers from data sparsity, but combining word-level and character-level models can yield good results even with small training data ...
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Article
Monte Carlo techniques for phrase-based translation
Recent advances in statistical machine translation have used approximate beam search for NP-complete inference within probabilistic translation models. We present an alternative approach of sampling from the p...
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Open AccessAutomating curation using a natural language processing pipeline
The tasks in BioCreative II were designed to approximate some of the laborious work involved in curating biomedical research papers. The approach to these tasks taken by the University of Edinburgh team was to...
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Open AccessOverview of BioCreative II gene mention recognition
Nineteen teams presented results for the Gene Mention Task at the BioCreative II Workshop. In this task participants designed systems to identify substrings in sentences corresponding to gene name mentions. A ...
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Open AccessIntroducing meta-services for biomedical information extraction
We introduce the first meta-service for information extraction in molecular biology, the BioCreative MetaServer (BCMS; http://bcms.bioinfo.cnio.es/). This pr...
