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2012
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Spectral Learning of Latent-Variable PCFGs
We introduce a spectral learning algorithm for latent-variable PCFGs (Petrov et al., 2006). Under a separability (singular value) condition, we prove that the method provides cons...
Shay B. Cohen, Karl Stratos, Michael Collins, Dean...
ACL
2012
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A Context-sensitive, Multi-faceted Model of Lexico-Conceptual Affect
Since we can ‘spin’ words and concepts to suit our affective needs, context is a major determinant of the perceived affect of a word or concept. We view this re-profiling as a...
Tony Veale
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction with Global Role Ordering
We propose a probabilistic generative model for unsupervised semantic role induction, which integrates local role assignment decisions and a global role ordering decision in a uni...
Nikhil Garg, James Henserdon
ACL
2012
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Extracting and modeling durations for habits and events from Twitter
We seek to automatically estimate typical durations for events and habits described in Twitter tweets. A corpus of more than 14 million tweets containing temporal duration informa...
Jennifer Williams, Graham Katz
ACL
2012
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Combining Word-Level and Character-Level Models for Machine Translation Between Closely-Related Languages
We propose several techniques for improving statistical machine translation between closely-related languages with scarce resources. We use character-level translation trained on ...
Preslav Nakov, Jörg Tiedemann