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ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Minimized Models for Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging
We describe a novel method for the task of unsupervised POS tagging with a dictionary, one that uses integer programming to explicitly search for the smallest model that explains ...
Sujith Ravi, Kevin Knight
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
A Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning for Question-Answering
We present a graph-based semi-supervised learning for the question-answering (QA) task for ranking candidate sentences. Using textual entailment analysis, we obtain entailment sco...
Asli Çelikyilmaz, Marcus Thint, Zhiheng Hua...
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Distributional Representations for Handling Sparsity in Supervised Sequence-Labeling
Supervised sequence-labeling systems in natural language processing often suffer from data sparsity because they use word types as features in their prediction tasks. Consequently...
Fei Huang, Alexander Yates
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
A Novel Discourse Parser Based on Support Vector Machine Classification
This paper introduces a new algorithm to parse discourse within the framework of Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST). Our method is based on recent advances in the field of statisti...
David duVerle, Helmut Prendinger
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Jointly Identifying Temporal Relations with Markov Logic
Recent work on temporal relation identification has focused on three types of relations between events: temporal relations between an event and a time expression, between a pair o...
Katsumasa Yoshikawa, Sebastian Riedel, Masayuki As...
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Semi-supervised Learning of Dependency Parsers using Generalized Expectation Criteria
In this paper, we propose a novel method for semi-supervised learning of nonprojective log-linear dependency parsers using directly expressed linguistic prior knowledge (e.g. a no...
Gregory Druck, Gideon S. Mann, Andrew McCallum
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Who, What, When, Where, Why? Comparing Multiple Approaches to the Cross-Lingual 5W Task
Cross-lingual tasks are especially difficult due to the compounding effect of errors in language processing and errors in machine translation (MT). In this paper, we present an er...
Kristen Parton, Kathleen McKeown, Bob Coyne, Mona ...
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Learning with Annotation Noise
It is usually assumed that the kind of noise existing in annotated data is random classification noise. Yet there is evidence that differences between annotators are not always ra...
Eyal Beigman, Beata Beigman Klebanov
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Summarizing multiple spoken documents: finding evidence from untranscribed audio
This paper presents a model for summarizing multiple untranscribed spoken documents. Without assuming the availability of transcripts, the model modifies a recently proposed unsup...
Xiaodan Zhu, Gerald Penn, Frank Rudzicz
ACL
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic Set Instance Extraction using the Web
An important and well-studied problem is the production of semantic lexicons from a large corpus. In this paper, we present a system named ASIA (Automatic Set Instance Acquirer), ...
Richard C. Wang, William W. Cohen