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ACL
2015
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Improving distant supervision using inference learning
Distant supervision is a widely applied approach to automatic training of relation extraction systems and has the advantage that it can generate large amounts of labelled data wit...
Roland Roller, Eneko Agirre, Aitor Soroa, Mark Ste...
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
Driving ROVER with Segment-based ASR Quality Estimation
ROVER is a widely used method to combine the output of multiple automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Though effective, the basic approach and its variants suffer from poten...
Shahab Jalalvand, Matteo Negri, Daniele Falavigna,...
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
Co-Simmate: Quick Retrieving All Pairwise Co-Simrank Scores
Co-Simrank is a useful Simrank-like measure of similarity based on graph structure. The existing method iteratively computes each pair of Co-Simrank score from a dot product of tw...
Weiren Yu, Julie A. McCann
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
A Lexicalized Tree Kernel for Open Information Extraction
In contrast with traditional relation extraction, which only considers a fixed set of relations, Open Information Extraction (Open IE) aims at extracting all types of relations f...
Ying Xu, Christoph Ringlstetter, Mi-Young Kim, Grz...
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
Unsupervised Learning and Modeling of Knowledge and Intent for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Spoken dialogue systems (SDS) are rapidly appearing in various smart devices (smartphone, smart-TV, in-car navigating system, etc). The key role in a successful SDS is a spoken la...
Yun-Nung Chen
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
How Far are We from Fully Automatic High Quality Grammatical Error Correction?
In this paper, we first explore the role of inter-annotator agreement statistics in grammatical error correction and conclude that they are less informative in fields where ther...
Christopher Bryant, Hwee Tou Ng
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
Semantic Interpretation of Superlative Expressions via Structured Knowledge Bases
This paper addresses a novel task of semantically analyzing the comparative constructions inherent in attributive superlative expressions against structured knowledge bases (KBs)....
Sheng Zhang, Yansong Feng, Songfang Huang, Kun Xu,...
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
A Hierarchical Knowledge Representation for Expert Finding on Social Media
Expert finding on social media benefits both individuals and commercial services. In this paper, we exploit a 5-level tree representation to model the posts on social media and ...
Yanran Li, Wenjie Li, Sujian Li
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
Predicting Valence-Arousal Ratings of Words Using a Weighted Graph Method
Compared to the categorical approach that represents affective states as several discrete classes (e.g., positive and negative), the dimensional approach represents affective stat...
Liang-Chih Yu, Jin Wang, K. Robert Lai, Xue-jie Zh...
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
Structured Training for Neural Network Transition-Based Parsing
We present structured perceptron training for neural network transition-based dependency parsing. We learn the neural network representation using a gold corpus augmented by a lar...
David Weiss, Chris Alberti, Michael Collins, Slav ...