In practical applications, decoding speed is very important. Modern structured learning technique adopts template based method to extract millions of features. Complicated templat...
Near-synonyms are useful knowledge resources for many natural language applications such as query expansion for information retrieval (IR) and paraphrasing for text generation. Ho...
Ambiguity of entity mentions and concept references is a challenge to mining text beyond surface-level keywords. We describe an effective method of disambiguating surface forms an...
Yiping Zhou, Lan Nie, Omid Rouhani-Kalleh, Flavian...
Zulu is an indigenous language of South Africa, and one of the eleven official languages of that country. It is spoken by about 11 million speakers. Although it is similar in size...
Sebastian Spiegler, Andrew van der Spuy, Peter A. ...
We present novel kernels based on structured and unstructured features for reranking the N-best hypotheses of conditional random fields (CRFs) applied to entity extraction. The fo...
Truc-Vien T. Nguyen, Alessandro Moschitti, Giusepp...