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Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP
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Capturing Salience with a Trainable Cache Model for Zero-anaphora Resolution
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Conundrums in Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution: Making Sense of the State-of-the-Art
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Quadratic-Time Dependency Parsing for Machine Translation
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Case markers and Morphology: Addressing the crux of the fluency problem in English-Hindi SMT
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Dependency Based Chinese Sentence Realization
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Semi-Supervised Cause Identification from Aviation Safety Reports
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Semantic Tagging of Web Search Queries
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Dialogue Segmentation with Large Numbers of Volunteer Internet Annotators
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