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COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Large Scale Ranker-Based System for Search Query Spelling Correction
This paper makes three significant extensions to a noisy channel speller designed for standard written text to target the challenging domain of search queries. First, the noisy ch...
Jianfeng Gao, Xiaolong Li, Daniel Micol, Chris Qui...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Jointly Modeling WSD and SRL with Markov Logic
Semantic role labeling (SRL) and word sense disambiguation (WSD) are two fundamental tasks in natural language processing to find a sentence-level semantic representation. To date...
Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Study on Learning to Rank of Tweets
Twitter, as one of the most popular micro-blogging services, provides large quantities of fresh information including real-time news, comments, conversation, pointless babble and ...
Yajuan Duan, Long Jiang, Tao Qin, Ming Zhou, Heung...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Filtered Ranking for Bootstrapping in Event Extraction
Several researchers have proposed semi-supervised learning methods for adapting event extraction systems to new event types. This paper investigates two kinds of bootstrapping met...
Shasha Liao, Ralph Grishman
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Discovery of Feature Sets for Dependency Parsing
This paper describes a search procedure to discover optimal feature sets for dependency parsers. The search applies to the shift
Peter Nilsson, Pierre Nugues
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
SemanticRank: Ranking Keywords and Sentences Using Semantic Graphs
George Tsatsaronis, Iraklis Varlamis, Kjetil N&osl...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Fast, Greedy Model Minimization for Unsupervised Tagging
Model minimization has been shown to work well for the task of unsupervised part-of-speech tagging with a dictionary. In (Ravi and Knight, 2009), the authors invoke an integer pro...
Sujith Ravi, Ashish Vaswani, Kevin Knight, David C...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
The Bag-of-Opinions Method for Review Rating Prediction from Sparse Text Patterns
The problem addressed in this paper is to predict a user's numeric rating in a product review from the text of the review. Unigram and n-gram representations of text are comm...
Lizhen Qu, Georgiana Ifrim, Gerhard Weikum
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Corpus-based Semantic Class Mining: Distributional vs. Pattern-Based Approaches
Main approaches to corpus-based semantic class mining include distributional similarity (DS) and pattern-based (PB). In this paper, we perform an empirical comparison of them, bas...
Shuming Shi, Huibin Zhang, Xiaojie Yuan, Ji-Rong W...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Better Arabic Parsing: Baselines, Evaluations, and Analysis
In this paper, we offer broad insight into the underperformance of Arabic constituency parsing by analyzing the interplay of linguistic phenomena, annotation choices, and model de...
Spence Green, Christopher D. Manning