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COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Bringing Active Learning to Life
Active learning has been applied to different NLP tasks, with the aim of limiting the amount of time and cost for human annotation. Most studies on active learning have only simul...
Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer, Alexis Palmer
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Hierarchical Classifier Applied to Multi-way Sentiment Detection
This paper considers the problem of document-level multi-way sentiment detection, proposing a hierarchical classifier algorithm that accounts for the inter-class similarity of tag...
Adrian Bickerstaffe, Ingrid Zukerman
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Utility-Driven Approach to Question Ranking in Social QA
We generalize the task of finding question paraphrases in a question repository to a novel formulation in which known questions are ranked based on their utility to a new, referen...
Razvan C. Bunescu, Yunfeng Huang
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Development Data Selection for Log-linear Model in Statistical Machine Translation
This paper addresses the problem of dynamic model parameter selection for loglinear model based statistical machine translation (SMT) systems. In this work, we propose a principle...
Mu Li, Yinggong Zhao, Dongdong Zhang, Ming Zhou
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Build Chinese Emotion Lexicons Using A Graph-based Algorithm and Multiple Resources
For sentiment analysis, lexicons play an important role in many related tasks. In this paper, aiming to build Chinese emotion lexicons for public use, we adopted a graph-based alg...
Ge Xu, Xinfan Meng, Houfeng Wang
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Improving the Quality of Text Understanding by Delaying Ambiguity Resolution
Text Understanding systems often commit to a single best interpretation of a sentence before analyzing subsequent text. This interpretation is chosen by resolving ambiguous altern...
Doo Soon Kim, Ken Barker, Bruce W. Porter
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Entity-Focused Sentence Simplification for Relation Extraction
Relations between entities in text have been widely researched in the natural language processing and informationextraction communities. The region connecting a pair of entities (...
Makoto Miwa, Rune Sætre, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-i...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Resolving Surface Forms to Wikipedia Topics
Ambiguity of entity mentions and concept references is a challenge to mining text beyond surface-level keywords. We describe an effective method of disambiguating surface forms an...
Yiping Zhou, Lan Nie, Omid Rouhani-Kalleh, Flavian...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Identifying Multi-word Expressions by Leveraging Morphological and Syntactic Idiosyncrasy
Multi-word expressions constitute a significant portion of the lexicon of every natural language, and handling them correctly is mandatory for various NLP applications. Yet such e...
Hassan Al-Haj, Shuly Wintner
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Forest-guided Supertagger Training
Supertagging is an important technique for deep syntactic analysis. A supertagger is usually trained independently of the parser using a sequence labeling method. This presents an...
Yao-zhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun-ichi Tsujii