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ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Tool for Deep Semantic Encoding of Narrative Texts
We have developed a novel, publicly available annotation tool for the semantic encoding of texts, especially those in the narrative domain. Users can create formal propositions to...
David K. Elson, Kathleen McKeown
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
ProLiV - a Tool for Teaching by Viewing Computational Linguistics
ProLiV - Animated Process-modeler of Complex (Computational) Linguistic Methods and Theories - is a fully modular, flexible, XML-based stand-alone Java application, used for compu...
Monica Gavrila, Cristina Vertan
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
The Modulation of Cooperation and Emotion in Dialogue: The REC Corpus
In this paper we describe the Rovereto Emotive Corpus (REC) which we collected to investigate the relationship between emotion and cooperation in dialogue tasks. It is an area whe...
Federica Cavicchio
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Accurate Learning for Chinese Function Tags from Minimal Features
Data-driven function tag assignment has been studied for English using Penn Treebank data. In this paper, we address the question of whether such method can be applied to other la...
Caixia Yuan, Fuji Ren, Xiaojie Wang
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Optimizing Language Model Information Retrieval System with Expectation Maximization Algorithm
Statistical language modeling (SLM) has been used in many different domains for decades and has also been applied to information retrieval (IR) recently. Documents retrieved using...
Justin Liang-Te Chiu, Jyun-Wei Huang
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A System for Semantic Analysis of Chemical Compound Names
Mapping and classification of chemical compound names are important aspects of the tasks of BioNLP. This paper introduces the architecture of a system for the syntactic and semant...
Henriette Engelken
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Paraphrase Recognition Using Machine Learning to Combine Similarity Measures
This paper presents three methods that can be used to recognize paraphrases. They all employ string similarity measures apshallow abstractions of the input sentences, and a Maximu...
Prodromos Malakasiotis
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Insights into Non-projectivity in Hindi
Large scale efforts are underway to create dependency treebanks and parsers for Hindi and other Indian languages. Hindi, being a morphologically rich, flexible word order language...
Prashanth Mannem, Himani Chaudhry, Akshar Bharati
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Data Cleaning for Word Alignment
Parallel corpora are made by human beings. However, as an MT system is an aggregation of state-of-the-art NLP technologies without any intervention of human beings, it is unavoida...
Tsuyoshi Okita