Benjamin Snyder


2015

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Part-of-speech Taggers for Low-resource Languages using CCA Features
Young-Bum Kim | Benjamin Snyder | Ruhi Sarikaya
Proceedings of the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2014

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Training a Korean SRL System with Rich Morphological Features
Young-Bum Kim | Heemoon Chae | Benjamin Snyder | Yu-Seop Kim
Proceedings of the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

2013

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Modeling Child Divergences from Adult Grammar
Sam Sahakian | Benjamin Snyder
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 1

During the course of first language acquisition, children produce linguistic forms that do not conform to adult grammar. In this paper, we introduce a data set and approach for systematically modeling this child-adult grammar divergence. Our corpus consists of child sentences with corrected adult forms. We bridge the gap between these forms with a discriminatively reranked noisy channel model that translates child sentences into equivalent adult utterances. Our method outperforms MT and ESL baselines, reducing child error by 20%. Our model allows us to chart specific aspects of grammar development in longitudinal studies of children, and investigate the hypothesis that children share a common developmental path in language acquisition.

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Optimal Data Set Selection: An Application to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
Young-Bum Kim | Benjamin Snyder
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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Unsupervised Consonant-Vowel Prediction over Hundreds of Languages
Young-Bum Kim | Benjamin Snyder
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2012

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Universal Grapheme-to-Phoneme Prediction Over Latin Alphabets
Young-Bum Kim | Benjamin Snyder
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

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Automatically Learning Measures of Child Language Development
Sam Sahakian | Benjamin Snyder
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

2011

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Universal Morphological Analysis using Structured Nearest Neighbor Prediction
Young-Bum Kim | João Graça | Benjamin Snyder
Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2010

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A Statistical Model for Lost Language Decipherment
Benjamin Snyder | Regina Barzilay | Kevin Knight
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2009

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Adding More Languages Improves Unsupervised Multilingual Part-of-Speech Tagging: a Bayesian Non-Parametric Approach
Benjamin Snyder | Tahira Naseem | Jacob Eisenstein | Regina Barzilay
Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Unsupervised Multilingual Grammar Induction
Benjamin Snyder | Tahira Naseem | Regina Barzilay
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

2008

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Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for Morphological Segmentation
Benjamin Snyder | Regina Barzilay
Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT

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Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for POS Tagging
Benjamin Snyder | Tahira Naseem | Jacob Eisenstein | Regina Barzilay
Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

2007

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Multiple Aspect Ranking Using the Good Grief Algorithm
Benjamin Snyder | Regina Barzilay
Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics; Proceedings of the Main Conference

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Incremental Text Structuring with Online Hierarchical Ranking
Erdong Chen | Benjamin Snyder | Regina Barzilay
Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL)

2005

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A Parallel Proposition Bank II for Chinese and English
Martha Palmer | Nianwen Xue | Olga Babko-Malaya | Jinying Chen | Benjamin Snyder
Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotations II: Pie in the Sky

2004

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Extending a Verb-lexicon Using a Semantically Annotated Corpus
Karin Kipper | Benjamin Snyder | Martha Palmer
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)

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The English all-words task
Benjamin Snyder | Martha Palmer
Proceedings of SENSEVAL-3, the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text

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Using prepositions to extend a verb lexicon
Karin Kipper | Benjamin Snyder | Martha Palmer
Proceedings of the Computational Lexical Semantics Workshop at HLT-NAACL 2004