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COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Metaphor Interpretation and Context-based Affect Detection
Metaphorical and contextual affect detection from open-ended text-based dialogue is challenging but essential for the building of effective intelligent user interfaces. In this pa...
Li Zhang
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Features for Automatic Readability Assessment
Several sets of explanatory variables
Lijun Feng, Martin Jansche, Matt Huenerfauth, Noem...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Incremental Chinese Lexicon Extraction with Minimal Resources on a Domain-Specific Corpus
This article presents an original lexical unit extraction system for Chinese. The method is based on an incremental process driven by an association score featuring a minimal reso...
Gaël Patin
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Name Origin Recognition with Context Features and Unlabelled Data
We demonstrate the use of context features, namely, names of places, and unlabelled data for the detection of personal name language of origin. While some early work used either r...
Vladimir Pervouchine, Min Zhang, Ming Liu, Haizhou...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Word-based and Character-based Word Segmentation Models: Comparison and Combination
We present a theoretical and empirical comparative analysis of the two dominant categories of approaches in Chinese word segmentation: word-based models and character-based models...
Weiwei Sun
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Sentiment Translation through Multi-Edge Graphs
Sentiment analysis systems can benefit from the translation of sentiment information. We present a novel, graph-based approach using SimRank, a well-established graph-theoretic al...
Christian Scheible, Florian Laws, Lukas Michelbach...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
What's in a Preposition? Dimensions of Sense Disambiguation for an Interesting Word Class
Choosing the right parameters for a word sense disambiguation task is critical to the success of the experiments. We explore this idea for prepositions, an often overlooked word c...
Dirk Hovy, Stephen Tratz, Eduard H. Hovy
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Realization of Discourse Relations by Other Means: Alternative Lexicalizations
Studies of discourse relations have not, in the past, attempted to characterize what serves as evidence for them, beyond lists of frozen expressions, or markers, drawn from a few ...
Rashmi Prasad, Aravind K. Joshi, Bonnie L. Webber
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Cross-Lingual Induction for Deep Broad-Coverage Syntax: A Case Study on German Participles
This paper is a case study on cross-lingual induction of lexical resources for deep, broad-coverage syntactic analysis of German. We use a parallel corpus to induce a classifier f...
Sina Zarrieß, Aoife Cahill, Jonas Kuhn, Chri...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparative Study on Ranking and Selection Strategies for Multi-Document Summarization
This paper presents a comparative study on two key problems existing in extractive summarization: the ranking problem and the selection problem. To this end, we presented a system...
Feng Jin, Minlie Huang, Xiaoyan Zhu