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ACL
2015
10 years 12 days ago
Lexical Comparison Between Wikipedia and Twitter Corpora by Using Word Embeddings
Compared with carefully edited prose, the language of social media is informal in the extreme. The application of NLP techniques in this context may require a better understanding...
Luchen Tan, Haotian Zhang, Charles L. A. Clarke, M...
ACL
2015
10 years 12 days ago
Improving Named Entity Recognition in Tweets via Detecting Non-Standard Words
Most previous work of text normalization on informal text made a strong assumption that the system has already known which tokens are non-standard words (NSW) and thus need normal...
Chen Li, Yang Liu
ACL
2015
10 years 12 days ago
Unsupervised Cross-Domain Word Representation Learning
Meaning of a word varies from one domain to another. Despite this important domain dependence in word semantics, existing word representation learning methods are bound to a singl...
Danushka Bollegala, Takanori Maehara, Ken-ichi Kaw...
ACL
2015
10 years 12 days ago
A Computational Approach to Automatic Prediction of Drunk-Texting
Alcohol abuse may lead to unsociable behavior such as crime, drunk driving, or privacy leaks. We introduce automatic drunk-texting prediction as the task of identifying whether a ...
Aditya Joshi, Abhijit Mishra, Balamurali A. R, Pus...
ACL
2015
10 years 12 days ago
Jointly optimizing word representations for lexical and sentential tasks with the C-PHRASE model
We introduce C-PHRASE, a distributional semantic model that learns word representations by optimizing context prediction for phrases at all levels in a syntactic tree, from single...
Nghia The Pham, Germán Kruszewski, Angeliki...
ACL
2015
10 years 12 days ago
Automatic Discrimination between Cognates and Borrowings
Identifying the type of relationship between words provides a deeper insight into the history of a language and allows a better characterization of language relatedness. In this p...
Alina Maria Ciobanu, Liviu P. Dinu
ACL
2015
10 years 12 days ago
A Data Sharing and Annotation Service Infrastructure
This paper reports on and demonstrates META-SHARE/QT21, a prototype implementation of a data sharing and annotation service platform, which was based on the META-SHARE infrastruct...
Stelios Piperidis, Dimitrios Galanis, Juli Bakagia...
ACL
2015
10 years 12 days ago
WikiKreator: Improving Wikipedia Stubs Automatically
Stubs on Wikipedia often lack comprehensive information. The huge cost of editing Wikipedia and the presence of only a limited number of active contributors curb the consistent gr...
Siddhartha Banerjee, Prasenjit Mitra
ACL
2015
10 years 12 days ago
Semantic Parsing via Staged Query Graph Generation: Question Answering with Knowledge Base
We propose a novel semantic parsing framework for question answering using a knowledge base. We define a query graph that resembles subgraphs of the knowledge base and can be dir...
Wen-tau Yih, Ming-Wei Chang, Xiaodong He, Jianfeng...
ACL
2015
10 years 12 days ago
An Empirical Study of Chinese Name Matching and Applications
Methods for name matching, an important component to support downstream tasks such as entity linking and entity clustering, have focused on alphabetic languages, primarily English...
Nanyun Peng, Mo Yu, Mark Dredze