Many methods are available for computing semantic similarity between individual words, but certain NLP tasks require the comparison of word pairs. This paper presents a kernel-bas...
We present a sentence compression system based on synchronous context-free grammars (SCFG), following the successful noisy-channel approach of (Knight and Marcu, 2000). We define...
We explore the near-synonym lexical choice problem using a novel representation of near-synonyms and their contexts in the latent semantic space. In contrast to traditional latent...
Sentiment classification refers to the task of automatically identifying whether a given piece of text expresses positive or negative opinion towards a subject at hand. The prolif...
Some big languages like English are spoken by a lot of people whose mother tongues are different from. Their second languages often have not only distinct accent but also differen...