Creative metaphor is a phenomenon that stretches and bends the conventions of semantic description, often to humorous and poetic extremes. The computational modeling of metaphor t...
Much previous work has investigated weak supervision with HMMs and tag dictionaries for part-of-speech tagging, but there have been no similar investigations for the harder proble...
Supervised approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) have been shown to outperform other approaches but are hampered by reliance on labeled training examples (the data acquisi...
The task of identifying redundant information in documents that are generated from multiple sources provides a significant challenge for summarization and QA systems. Traditional ...
Many reordering approaches have been proposed for the statistical machine translation (SMT) system. However, the information about the type of source sentence is ignored in the pr...
The paper offers a new type of approach to the semantic phenomenon of adverbial aspect shift within the framework of finitestate temporal semantics. The heart of the proposal is a...
This paper describes the design and evaluation of an extractive summarizer for educational science content called COGENT. COGENT extends MEAD based on strategies elicited from an ...
Sebastian de la Chica, Faisal Ahmad, James H. Mart...
This paper presents a general platform, namely synchronous tree sequence substitution grammar (STSSG), for the grammar comparison study in Translational Equivalence Modeling (TEM)...
Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, Haizhou Li, AiTi Aw, She...
Addressing the task of acquiring semantic relations between events from a large corpus, we first argue the complementarity between the pattern-based relation-oriented approach and...