Noun phrases in queries are identified and classified into four types: proper names, dictionary phrases, simple phrases and complex phrases. A document has a phrase if all content...
Most research in the field of anaphora or coreference detection has been limited to noun phrase coreference, usually on a restricted set of entities, such as ACE entities. In par...
Sameer S. Pradhan, Lance A. Ramshaw, Ralph M. Weis...
Most topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation, rely on the bag-of-words assumption. However, word order and phrases are often critical to capturing the meaning of text in...
Confidence-Weighted linear classifiers (CW) and its successors were shown to perform well on binary and multiclass NLP problems. In this paper we extend the CW approach for sequen...
Research in named entity recognition and mention detection has typically involved a fairly small number of semantic classes, which may not be adequate if semantic class informatio...