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COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Verbs are where all the action lies: Experiences of Shallow Parsing of a Morphologically Rich Language
Verb suffixes and verb complexes of morphologically rich languages carry a lot of information. We show that this information if harnessed for the task of shallow parsing can lead ...
Harshada Gune, Mugdha Bapat, Mitesh M. Khapra, Pus...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Challenges from Information Extraction to Information Fusion
Information Extraction (IE) technology is facing new challenges of dealing with large-scale heterogeneous data sources from different documents, languages and modalities. Informat...
Heng Ji
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised cleansing of noisy text
In this paper we look at the problem of cleansing noisy text using a statistical machine translation model. Noisy text is produced in informal communications such as Short Message...
Danish Contractor, Tanveer A. Faruquie, L. Venkata...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Heterogeneous Parsing via Collaborative Decoding
There often exist multiple corpora for the same natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, such corpora are generally used independently due to distinctions in annotation s...
Muhua Zhu, Jingbo Zhu, Tong Xiao
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Detecting Speech Repairs Incrementally Using a Noisy Channel Approach
Unrehearsed spoken language often contains disfluencies. In order to correctly interpret a spoken utterance, any such disfluencies must be identified and removed or otherwise deal...
Simon Zwarts, Mark Johnson, Robert Dale
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Dependency Forest for Statistical Machine Translation
We propose a structure called dependency forest for statistical machine translation. A dependency forest compactly represents multiple dependency trees. We develop new algorithms ...
Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Young-Sook Hwang, Qun Liu, ...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Entity Disambiguation for Knowledge Base Population
The integration of facts derived from information extraction systems into existing knowledge bases requires a system to disambiguate entity mentions in the text. This is challengi...
Mark Dredze, Paul McNamee, Delip Rao, Adam Gerber,...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Estimating Linear Models for Compositional Distributional Semantics
In distributional semantics studies, there is a growing attention in compositionally determining the distributional meaning of word sequences. Yet, compositional distributional mo...
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Ioannis Korkontzelos, Fran...