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ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Reducing Semantic Drift with Bagging and Distributional Similarity
Iterative bootstrapping algorithms are typically compared using a single set of handpicked seeds. However, we demonstrate that performance varies greatly depending on these seeds,...
Tara McIntosh, James R. Curran
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Summarizing Definition from Wikipedia
Wikipedia provides a wealth of knowledge, where the first sentence, infobox (and relevant sentences), and even the entire document of a wiki article could be considered as diverse...
Shiren Ye, Tat-Seng Chua, Jie Lu
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Co-Training for Cross-Lingual Sentiment Classification
The lack of Chinese sentiment corpora limits the research progress on Chinese sentiment classification. However, there are many freely available English sentiment corpora on the W...
Xiaojun Wan
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Forest-based Tree Sequence to String Translation Model
This paper proposes a forest-based tree sequence to string translation model for syntaxbased statistical machine translation, which automatically learns tree sequence to string tr...
Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Haizhou Li, AiTi Aw, Chew Li...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
A Syntax-Driven Bracketing Model for Phrase-Based Translation
Syntactic analysis influences the way in which the source sentence is translated. Previous efforts add syntactic constraints to phrase-based translation by directly rewarding/puni...
Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Multi-Task Transfer Learning for Weakly-Supervised Relation Extraction
Creating labeled training data for relation extraction is expensive. In this paper, we study relation extraction in a special weakly-supervised setting when we have only a few see...
Jing Jiang
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Instructions to Actions
In this paper, we present a reinforcement learning approach for mapping natural language instructions to sequences of executable actions. We assume access to a reward function tha...
S. R. K. Branavan, Harr Chen, Luke S. Zettlemoyer,...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Relation Extraction by Mining Wikipedia Texts Using Information from the Web
This paper presents an unsupervised relation extraction method for discovering and enhancing relations in which a specified concept in Wikipedia participates. Using respective cha...
Yulan Yan, Naoaki Okazaki, Yutaka Matsuo, Zhenglu ...
ACL
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Linefeed Insertion into Japanese Spoken Monologue for Captioning
To support the real-time understanding of spoken monologue such as lectures and commentaries, the development of a captioning system is required. In monologues, since a sentence t...
Tomohiro Ohno, Masaki Murata, Shigeki Matsubara