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COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Formal Scheme for Multimodal Grammars
We present in this paper a formal approach for the representation of multimodal information. This approach, thanks to the to use of typed feature structures and hypergraphs, gener...
Philippe Blache, Laurent Prévot
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Toward Qualitative Evaluation of Textual Entailment Systems
This paper presents a methodology for a quantitative and qualitative evaluation of Textual Entailment systems. We take advantage of the decomposition of Text Hypothesis pairs into...
Elena Cabrio, Bernardo Magnini
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Benchmarking of Statistical Dependency Parsers for French
We compare the performance of three statistical parsing architectures on the problem of deriving typed dependency structures for French. The architectures are based on PCFGs with ...
Marie Candito, Joakim Nivre, Pascal Denis, Enrique...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Lexical Formality
There has been relatively little work focused on determining the formality level of individual lexical items. This study applies information from large mixedgenre corpora, demonst...
Julian Brooke, Tong Wang, Graeme Hirst
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Chinese Frame Identification using T-CRF Model
As one of the important tasks of SemEval Evaluation, Frame Semantic Structure Extraction based on the FrameNet has received much more attention in NLP field. This task is often di...
Ru Li, Haijing Liu, Shuanghong Li
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Classification of Automatically Acquired Nouns using Lexico-Syntactic Clues
In this paper, we present a two-stage approach to acquire Japanese unknown morphemes from text with full POS tags assigned to them. We first acquire unknown morphemes only making ...
Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Argument Optionality in the LinGO Grammar Matrix
We present a library of implemented HPSG analyses for argument optionality based on typological studies of this phenomenon in the world's languages, developed in the context ...
Safiyyah Saleem, Emily M. Bender
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Informed ways of improving data-driven dependency parsing for German
We investigate a series of targeted modifications to a data-driven dependency parser of German and show that these can be highly effective even for a relatively well studied langu...
Wolfgang Seeker, Bernd Bohnet, Lilja Øvreli...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Phrase Boundaries for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
Hierarchical phrase-based models provide a powerful mechanism to capture non-local phrase reorderings for statistical machine translation (SMT). However, many phrase reorderings a...
Zhongjun He, Yao Meng, Hao Yu