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COLING
2008
14 years 9 days ago
A Fluid Knowledge Representation for Understanding and Generating Creative Metaphors
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...
Tony Veale, Yanfen Hao
COLING
2008
14 years 9 days ago
Weakly Supervised Supertagging with Grammar-Informed Initialization
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...
Jason Baldridge
COLING
2008
14 years 9 days ago
Acquiring Sense Tagged Examples using Relevance Feedback
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...
Mark Stevenson, Yikun Guo, Robert J. Gaizauskas
COLING
2008
14 years 9 days ago
A Framework for Identifying Textual Redundancy
The task of identifying redundant information in documents that are generated from multiple sources provides a significant challenge for summarization and QA systems. Traditional ...
Kapil Thadani, Kathleen McKeown
COLING
2008
14 years 9 days ago
Sentence Type Based Reordering Model for Statistical Machine Translation
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...
Jiajun Zhang, Chengqing Zong, Shoushan Li
COLING
2008
14 years 9 days ago
An Algorithm for Adverbial Aspect Shift
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...
Sabine Gründer
COLING
2008
14 years 9 days ago
Pedagogically Useful Extractive Summaries for Science Education
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...
COLING
2008
14 years 9 days ago
Grammar Comparison Study for Translational Equivalence Modeling and Statistical Machine Translation
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...
COLING
2008
14 years 9 days ago
Two-Phased Event Relation Acquisition: Coupling the Relation-Oriented and Argument-Oriented Approaches
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...
Shuya Abe, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto