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ACL
2015
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Using prosodic annotations to improve coreference resolution of spoken text
This paper is the first to examine the effect of prosodic features on coreference resolution in spoken discourse. We test features from different prosodic levels and investigate ...
Ina Roesiger, Arndt Riester
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
Linguistic Template Extraction for Recognizing Reader-Emotion and Emotional Resonance Writing Assistance
In this paper, we propose a flexible principle-based approach (PBA) for reader-emotion classification and writing assistance. PBA is a highly automated process that learns emoti...
Yung-Chun Chang, Cen-Chieh Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Chi...
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
Bring you to the past: Automatic Generation of Topically Relevant Event Chronicles
An event chronicle provides people with an easy and fast access to learn the past. In this paper, we propose the first novel approach to automatically generate a topically releva...
Tao Ge, Wenzhe Pei, Heng Ji, Sujian Li, Baobao Cha...
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
A Strategic Reasoning Model for Generating Alternative Answers
We characterize a class of indirect answers to yes/no questions, alternative answers, where information is given that is not directly asked about, but which might nonetheless addr...
Jon Scott Stevens, Anton Benz, Sebastian Reuß...
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
Point Process Modelling of Rumour Dynamics in Social Media
Rumours on social media exhibit complex temporal patterns. This paper develops a model of rumour prevalence using a point process, namely a log-Gaussian Cox process, to infer an u...
Michal Lukasik, Trevor Cohn, Kalina Bontcheva
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
Low-Rank Tensors for Verbs in Compositional Distributional Semantics
Several compositional distributional semantic methods use tensors to model multi-way interactions between vectors. Unfortunately, the size of the tensors can make their use imprac...
Daniel Fried, Tamara Polajnar, Stephen Clark
ACL
2015
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Parsing Paraphrases with Joint Inference
Treebanks are key resources for developing accurate statistical parsers. However, building treebanks is expensive and timeconsuming for humans. For domains requiring deep subject ...
Do Kook Choe, David McClosky
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
WriteAhead: Mining Grammar Patterns in Corpora for Assisted Writing
This paper describes WriteAhead, a resource-rich, Interactive Writing Environment that provides L2 learners with writing prompts, as well as ”get it right” advice, to helps th...
Tzu-Hsi Yen, Jian-Cheng Wu, Jim Chang, Joanne Bois...
ACL
2015
10 years 10 days ago
A Convolution Kernel Approach to Identifying Comparisons in Text
Comparisons in text, such as in online reviews, serve as useful decision aids. In this paper, we focus on the task of identifying whether a comparison exists between a specific p...
Maksim Tkachenko, Hady Wirawan Lauw