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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
The Effect of Ambiguity on the Automated Acquisition of WSD Examples
Several methods for automatically generating labeled examples that can be used as training data for WSD systems have been proposed, including a semisupervised approach based on re...
Mark Stevenson, Yikun Guo
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Multi-Prototype Vector-Space Models of Word Meaning
Current vector-space models of lexical semantics create a single "prototype" vector to represent the meaning of a word. However, due to lexical ambiguity, encoding word ...
Joseph Reisinger, Raymond J. Mooney
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
An Efficient Algorithm for Easy-First Non-Directional Dependency Parsing
We present a novel deterministic dependency parsing algorithm that attempts to create the easiest arcs in the dependency structure first in a non-directional manner. Traditional d...
Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
The Simple Truth about Dependency and Phrase Structure Representations: An Opinion Piece
There are many misconceptions about dependency representations and phrase structure representations for syntax. They are partly due to terminological confusion, partly due to a la...
Owen Rambow
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Why Synchronous Tree Substitution Grammars?
Synchronous tree substitution grammars are a translation model that is used in syntax-based machine translation. They are investigated in a formal setting and compared to a compet...
Andreas Maletti
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Diacritization for Low-Resource Languages Using a Hybrid Word and Consonant CMM
We are interested in diacritizing Semitic languages, especially Syriac, using only diacritized texts. Previous methods have required the use of tools such as part-of-speech tagger...
Robbie Haertel, Peter McClanahan, Eric K. Ringger
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Reranking the Berkeley and Brown Parsers
The Brown and the Berkeley parsers are two state-of-the-art generative parsers. Since both parsers produce n-best lists, it is possible to apply reranking techniques to the output...
Mark Johnson, Ahmet Engin Ural
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Training Paradigms for Correcting Errors in Grammar and Usage
This paper proposes a novel approach to the problem of training classifiers to detect and correct grammar and usage errors in text by selectively introducing mistakes into the tra...
Alla Rozovskaya, Dan Roth
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Simple Approach for HPSG Supertagging Using Dependency Information
In a supertagging task, sequence labeling models are commonly used. But their limited ability to model long-distance information presents a bottleneck to make further improvements...
Yao-zhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun-ichi Tsujii
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Blog Polarity Classification via Topic Analysis and Adaptive Methods
In this paper we examine different linguistic features for sentimental polarity classification, and perform a comparative study on this task between blog and review data. We found...
Feifan Liu, Dong Wang, Bin Li, Yang Liu