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COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Phrase Structure Parsing with Dependency Structure
In this paper we present a novel phrase structure parsing approach with the help of dependency structure. Different with existing phrase parsers, in our approach the inference pro...
Zhiguo Wang, Chengqing Zong
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Composition of Semantic Relations: Model and Applications
This paper presents a framework for combining semantic relations extracted from text to reveal even more semantics that otherwise would be missed. A set of 26 relations is introdu...
Eduardo Blanco 0002, Hakki C. Cankaya, Dan I. Mold...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Improved Unsupervised Sentence Alignment for Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Parallel Corpora
We address the problem of unsupervised and language-pair independent alignment of symmetrical and asymmetrical parallel corpora. Asymmetrical parallel corpora contain a large prop...
Fabienne Braune, Alexander Fraser
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Morphological Analysis Can Improve a CCG Parser for English
Because English is a low morphology language, current statistical parsers tend to ignore morphology and accept some level of redundancy. This paper investigates how costly such re...
Matthew Honnibal, Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, James R....
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Multi-Domain Web-Based Algorithm for POS Tagging of Unknown Words
We present a web-based algorithm for the task of POS tagging of unknown words (words appearing only a small number of times in the training data of a supervised POS tagger). When ...
Shulamit Umansky-Pesin, Roi Reichart, Ari Rappopor...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Tree Topological Features for Unlexicalized Parsing
As unlexicalized parsing lacks word token information, it is important to investigate novel parsing features to improve the accuracy. This paper studies a set of tree topological ...
Samuel W. K. Chan, Lawrence Y. L. Cheung, Mickey W...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Web Query Patterns for Imitating Wikipedia Articles
This paper presents a novel method for acquiring a set of query patterns to retrieve documents containing important information about an entity. Given an existing Wikipedia catego...
Shohei Tanaka, Naoaki Okazaki, Mitsuru Ishizuka
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
The Role of Queries in Ranking Labeled Instances Extracted from Text
A weakly supervised method uses anonymized search queries to induce a ranking among class labels extracted from unstructured text for various instances. The accuracy of the extrac...
Marius Pasca
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Linguistic Cues for Distinguishing Literal and Non-Literal Usages
We investigate the effectiveness of different linguistic cues for distinguishing literal and non-literal usages of potentially idiomatic expressions. We focus specifically on feat...
Linlin Li, Caroline Sporleder
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Benchmarking for syntax-based sentential inference
We propose a methodology for investigating how well NLP systems handle meaning preserving syntactic variations. We start by presenting a method for the semi automated creation of ...
Paul Bédaride, Claire Gardent