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EMNLP
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts
We investigate whether one can determine from the transcripts of U.S. Congressional floor debates whether the speeches represent support of or opposition to proposed legislation. ...
Matt Thomas, Bo Pang, Lillian Lee
EMNLP
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Random Indexing using Statistical Weight Functions
Random Indexing is a vector space technique that provides an efficient and scalable approximation to distributional similarity problems. We present experiments showing Random Inde...
James Gorman, James R. Curran
EMNLP
2006
13 years 9 months ago
Lexical Reference: a Semantic Matching Subtask
Semantic lexical matching is a prominent subtask within text understanding applications. Yet, it is rarely evaluated in a direct manner. This paper proposes a definition for lexic...
Oren Glickman, Eyal Shnarch, Ido Dagan
EMNLP
2006
13 years 9 months ago
A Skip-Chain Conditional Random Field for Ranking Meeting Utterances by Importance
We describe a probabilistic approach to content selection for meeting summarization. We use skipchain Conditional Random Fields (CRF) to model non-local pragmatic dependencies bet...
Michel Galley
EMNLP
2006
13 years 9 months ago
SPMT: Statistical Machine Translation with Syntactified Target Language Phrases
We introduce SPMT, a new class of statistical Translation Models that use Syntactified target language Phrases. The SPMT models outperform a state of the art phrase-based baseline...
Daniel Marcu, Wei Wang, Abdessamad Echihabi, Kevin...