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ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
An analysis of the user occupational class through Twitter content
Social media content can be used as a complementary source to the traditional methods for extracting and studying collective social attributes. This study focuses on the predictio...
Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Vasileios Lampos, Nikolaos...
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Automatic Spontaneous Speech Grading: A Novel Feature Derivation Technique using the Crowd
In this paper, we address the problem of evaluating spontaneous speech using a combination of machine learning and crowdsourcing. Machine learning techniques inadequately solve th...
Vinay Shashidhar, Nishant Pandey, Varun Aggarwal
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
End-to-end Argument Generation System in Debating
We introduce an argument generation system in debating, one that is based on sentence retrieval. Users can specify a motion such as This house should ban gambling, and a stance on...
Misa Sato, Kohsuke Yanai, Toshinori Miyoshi, Toshi...
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
New Transfer Learning Techniques for Disparate Label Sets
In natural language understanding (NLU), a user utterance can be labeled differently depending on the domain or application (e.g., weather vs. calendar). Standard domain adaptatio...
Young-Bum Kim, Karl Stratos, Ruhi Sarikaya, Minwoo...
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Tagging Performance Correlates with Author Age
Many NLP tools for English and German are based on manually annotated articles from the Wall Street Journal and Frankfurter Rundschau. The average readers of these two newspapers ...
Dirk Hovy, Anders Søgaard
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Event Extraction via Dynamic Multi-Pooling Convolutional Neural Networks
Traditional approaches to the task of ACE event extraction primarily rely on elaborately designed features and complicated natural language processing (NLP) tools. These tradition...
Yubo Chen, Liheng Xu, Kang Liu, Daojian Zeng, Jun ...
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Learning Continuous Word Embedding with Metadata for Question Retrieval in Community Question Answering
Community question answering (cQA) has become an important issue due to the popularity of cQA archives on the web. This paper is concerned with the problem of question retrieval. ...
Guangyou Zhou, Tingting He, Jun Zhao, Po Hu
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Classifying Relations by Ranking with Convolutional Neural Networks
Relation classification is an important semantic processing task for which state-ofthe-art systems still rely on costly handcrafted features. In this work we tackle the relation ...
Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Bing Xiang, Bow...
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Lexical Comparison Between Wikipedia and Twitter Corpora by Using Word Embeddings
Compared with carefully edited prose, the language of social media is informal in the extreme. The application of NLP techniques in this context may require a better understanding...
Luchen Tan, Haotian Zhang, Charles L. A. Clarke, M...
ACL
2015
8 years 6 months ago
Improving Named Entity Recognition in Tweets via Detecting Non-Standard Words
Most previous work of text normalization on informal text made a strong assumption that the system has already known which tokens are non-standard words (NSW) and thus need normal...
Chen Li, Yang Liu