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EMNLP
2009
15 years 2 months ago
Detecting Speculations and their Scopes in Scientific Text
Distinguishing speculative statements from factual ones is important for most biomedical text mining applications. We introduce an approach which is based on solving two sub-probl...
Arzucan Özgür, Dragomir R. Radev
EMNLP
2009
15 years 2 months ago
Using Word-Sense Disambiguation Methods to Classify Web Queries by Intent
Three methods are proposed to classify queries by intent (CQI), e.g., navigational, informational, commercial, etc. Following mixed-initiative dialog systems, search engines shoul...
Emily Pitler, Ken Ward Church
EMNLP
2009
15 years 2 months ago
First- and Second-Order Expectation Semirings with Applications to Minimum-Risk Training on Translation Forests
Many statistical translation models can be regarded as weighted logical deduction. Under this paradigm, we use weights from the expectation semiring (Eisner, 2002), to compute fir...
Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner
EMNLP
2009
15 years 2 months ago
Joint Optimization for Machine Translation System Combination
System combination has emerged as a powerful method for machine translation (MT). This paper pursues a joint optimization strategy for combining outputs from multiple MT systems, ...
Xiaodong He, Kristina Toutanova
EMNLP
2009
15 years 2 months ago
Improving Verb Clustering with Automatically Acquired Selectional Preferences
In previous research in automatic verb classification, syntactic features have proved the most useful features, although manual classifications rely heavily on semantic features. ...
Lin Sun, Anna Korhonen