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ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Encoding Distributional Semantics into Triple-Based Knowledge Ranking for Document Enrichment
Document enrichment focuses on retrieving relevant knowledge from external resources, which is essential because text is generally replete with gaps. Since conventional work prima...
Muyu Zhang, Bing Qin, Mao Zheng, Graeme Hirst, Tin...
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Improving social relationships in face-to-face human-agent interactions: when the agent wants to know user's likes and dislikes
This paper tackles the issue of the detection of user’s verbal expressions of likes and dislikes in a human-agent interaction. We present a system grounded on the theoretical fr...
Caroline Langlet, Chloé Clavel
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Generative Event Schema Induction with Entity Disambiguation
This paper presents a generative model to event schema induction. Previous methods in the literature only use head words to represent entities. However, elements other than head w...
Kiem-Hieu Nguyen, Xavier Tannier, Olivier Ferret, ...
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Knowledge Portability with Semantic Expansion of Ontology Labels
Our research focuses on the multilingual enhancement of ontologies that, often represented only in English, need to be translated in different languages to enable knowledge access...
Mihael Arcan, Marco Turchi, Paul Buitelaar
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Environment-Driven Lexicon Induction for High-Level Instructions
We focus on the task of interpreting complex natural language instructions to a robot, in which we must ground high-level commands such as microwave the cup to low-level actions s...
Dipendra Kumar Misra, Kejia Tao, Percy Liang, Ashu...
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Tackling Sparsity, the Achilles Heel of Social Networks: Language Model Smoothing via Social Regularization
Online social networks nowadays have the worldwide prosperity, as they have revolutionized the way for people to discover, to share, and to diffuse information. Social networks ar...
Rui Yan, Xiang Li, Mengwen Liu, Xiaohua Hu
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
An Effective Neural Network Model for Graph-based Dependency Parsing
Most existing graph-based parsing models rely on millions of hand-crafted features, which limits their generalization ability and slows down the parsing speed. In this paper, we p...
Wenzhe Pei, Tao Ge, Baobao Chang
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Multiple Many-to-Many Sequence Alignment for Combining String-Valued Variables: A G2P Experiment
We investigate multiple many-to-many alignments as a primary step in integrating supplemental information strings in string transduction. Besides outlining DP based solutions to t...
Steffen Eger
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Synthetic Word Parsing Improves Chinese Word Segmentation
We present a novel solution to improve the performance of Chinese word segmentation (CWS) using a synthetic word parser. The parser analyses the internal structure of words, and a...
Fei Cheng, Kevin Duh, Yuji Matsumoto
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Graph parsing with s-graph grammars
A key problem in semantic parsing with graph-based semantic representations is graph parsing, i.e. computing all possible analyses of a given graph according to a grammar. This pr...
Jonas Groschwitz, Alexander Koller, Christoph Teic...