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ACL
2012
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A Graph-based Cross-lingual Projection Approach for Weakly Supervised Relation Extraction
Although researchers have conducted extensive studies on relation extraction in the last decade, supervised approaches are still limited because they require large amounts of trai...
Seokhwan Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
The Creation of a Corpus of English Metalanguage
Metalanguage is an essential linguistic mechanism which allows us to communicate explicit information about language itself. However, it has been underexamined in research in lang...
Shomir Wilson
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Syntactic Stylometry for Deception Detection
Most previous studies in computerized deception detection have relied only on shallow lexico-syntactic patterns. This paper investigates syntactic stylometry for deception detecti...
Song Feng, Ritwik Banerjee, Yejin Choi
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Post-ordering by Parsing for Japanese-English Statistical Machine Translation
Reordering is a difficult task in translating between widely different languages such as Japanese and English. We employ the postordering framework proposed by (Sudoh et al., 201...
Isao Goto, Masao Utiyama, Eiichiro Sumita
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Exploiting Multiple Treebanks for Parsing with Quasi-synchronous Grammars
We present a simple and effective framework for exploiting multiple monolingual treebanks with different annotation guidelines for parsing. Several types of transformation pattern...
Zhenghua Li, Ting Liu, Wanxiang Che
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
PDTB-style Discourse Annotation of Chinese Text
We describe a discourse annotation scheme for Chinese and report on the preliminary results. Our scheme, inspired by the Penn Discourse TreeBank (PDTB), adopts the lexically groun...
Yuping Zhou, Nianwen Xue
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
A Two-step Approach to Sentence Compression of Spoken Utterances
This paper presents a two-step approach to compress spontaneous spoken utterances. In the first step, we use a sequence labeling method to determine if a word in the utterance ca...
Dong Wang, Xian Qian, Yang Liu
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Attacking Parsing Bottlenecks with Unlabeled Data and Relevant Factorizations
Prepositions and conjunctions are two of the largest remaining bottlenecks in parsing. Across various existing parsers, these two categories have the lowest accuracies, and mistak...
Emily Pitler
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
Personalized Normalization for a Multilingual Chat System
This paper describes the personalized normalization of a multilingual chat system that supports chatting in user defined short-forms or abbreviations. One of the major challenges ...
Ai Ti Aw, Lian Hau Lee
ACL
2012
12 years 1 months ago
A Statistical Model for Unsupervised and Semi-supervised Transliteration Mining
We propose a novel model to automatically extract transliteration pairs from parallel corpora. Our model is efficient, language pair independent and mines transliteration pairs i...
Hassan Sajjad, Alexander Fraser, Helmut Schmid