@inproceedings{e87e96eafb6145138c63232f2f6c1fd8,
title = "Cross-lingual Slot Filling from Comparable Corpora",
abstract = "This paper introduces a new task of crosslingual slot filling which aims to discover attributes for entity queries from crosslingual comparable corpora and then present answers in a desired language. It is a very challenging task which suffers from both information extraction and machine translation errors. In this paper we analyze the types of errors produced by five different baseline approaches, and present a novel supervised rescoring based validation approach to incorporate global evidence from very large bilingual comparable corpora. Without using any additional labeled data this new approach obtained 38.5% relative improvement in Precision and 86.7% relative improvement in Recall over several state-of-the-art approaches. The ultimate system outperformed monolingual slot filling pipelines built on much larger monolingual corpora.",
author = "Matthew Snover and Xiang Li and Lin, {Wen Pin} and Zheng Chen and Suzanne Tamang and Mingmin Ge and Adam Lee and Qi Li and Hao Li and Sam Anzaroot and Heng Ji",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2011 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. All rights reserved.; 4th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora: Comparable Corpora and the Web, BUCC 2011 at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL-HLT 2011 ; Conference date: 24-06-2011",
year = "2011",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "110--119",
editor = "Pierre Zweigenbaum and Reinhard Rapp and Reinhard Rapp and Serge Sharoff",
booktitle = "4th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora",
}