ACL
2007
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2007
This paper presents an approach for the automatic acquisition of qualia structures for nouns from the Web and thus opens the possibility to explore the impact of qualia structures...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Web search engines today typically show results as a list of titles and short snippets that summarize how the retrieved documents are related to the query. However, recent researc...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Human categorization is neither a binary nor a context-free process. Rather, some concepts are better examples of a category than others, while the criteria for category membershi...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
In this paper we present a supervised method for back-of-the-book index construction. We introduce a novel set of features that goes beyond the typical frequency-based analysis, i...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
Extracting tree transducer rules for syntactic MT systems can be hindered by word alignment errors that violate syntactic correspondences. We propose a novel model for unsupervise...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Query expansion is an effective technique to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. Although hand-crafted lexical resources, such as WordNet, could provide more...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This work presents an agenda-based approach to improve the robustness of the dialog manager by using dialog examples and n-best recognition hypotheses. This approach supports n-be...
ACL
2007
14 years 1 months ago
2007
In this paper we present methods for improving the disambiguation of noun phrase (NP) coordination within the framework of a lexicalised history-based parsing model. As well as re...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
The validity of semantic inferences depends on the contexts in which they are applied. We propose a generic framework for handling contextual considerations within applied inferen...