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COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Bridging Topic Modeling and Personalized Search
This work presents a study to bridge topic modeling and personalized search. A probabilistic topic model is used to extract topics from user search history. These topics can be se...
Wei Song, Yu Zhang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Learnable Constraint-based Grammar Formalism
Lexicalized Well-Founded Grammar (LWFG) is a recently developed syntacticsemantic grammar formalism for deep language understanding, which balances expressiveness with provable le...
Smaranda Muresan
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Best Topic Word Selection for Topic Labelling
This paper presents the novel task of best topic word selection, that is the selection of the topic word that is the best label for a given topic, as a means of enhancing the inte...
Jey Han Lau, David Newman, Sarvnaz Karimi, Timothy...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Finite-state Scriptural Translation
We use robust and fast Finite-State Machines (FSMs) to solve scriptural translation problems. We describe a phonetico-morphotactic pivot UIT (universal intermediate transcription)...
M. G. Abbas Malik, Christian Boitet, Pushpak Bhatt...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Machine Transliteration: Leveraging on Third Languages
This paper presents two pivot strategies for statistical machine transliteration, namely system-based pivot strategy and model-based pivot strategy. Given two independent source-p...
Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, Vladimir Pervouchine, Hai...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Towards Automatic Building of Document Keywords
Document keywords are associated to documents as summarized versions of the documents' content. Considering that the number of documents is quickly growing every day, the ava...
Joaquim Silva, José Gabriel Lopes
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Reordering with Linguistically Informed Bilingual n-grams
We present a new reordering model estimated as a standard n-gram language model with units built from morphosyntactic information of the source and target languages. It can be see...
Josep Maria Crego, François Yvon
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Opinion Target Extraction in Chinese News Comments
News Comments on the web express readers' attitudes or opinions about an event or object in the corresponding news article. And opinion target extraction from news comments i...
Tengfei Ma, Xiaojun Wan
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Cue Phrases for Cross-Corpus Dialogue Act Classification
In this paper, we present an investigation into the use of cue phrases as a basis for dialogue act classification. We define what we mean by cue phrases, and describe how we extra...
Nick Webb, Michael Ferguson