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COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Leveraging Multiple MT Engines for Paraphrase Generation
This paper proposes a method that leverages multiple machine translation (MT) engines for paraphrase generation (PG). The method includes two stages. Firstly, we use a multi-pivot...
Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Xiang Lan, Ting Liu
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Cross-lingual Annotation Projection Approach for Relation Detection
While extensive studies on relation extraction have been conducted in the last decade, statistical systems based on supervised learning are still limited because they require larg...
Seokhwan Kim, Minwoo Jeong, Jonghoon Lee, Gary Geu...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Open Entity Extraction from Web Search Query Logs
In this paper we propose a completely unsupervised method for open-domain entity extraction and clustering over query logs. The underlying hypothesis is that classes defined by mi...
Alpa Jain, Marco Pennacchiotti
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Training for Near-Synonym Substitution
Near-synonyms are useful knowledge resources for many natural language applications such as query expansion for information retrieval (IR) and paraphrasing for text generation. Ho...
Liang-Chih Yu, Hsiu-Min Shih, Yu-Ling Lai, Jui-Fen...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Citation Summarization Through Keyphrase Extraction
This paper presents an approach to summarize single scientific papers, by extracting its contributions from the set of citation sentences written in other papers. Our methodology ...
Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev, Arzucan Ö...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
EMMA: A novel Evaluation Metric for Morphological Analysis
We present a novel Evaluation Metric for Morphological Analysis (EMMA) that is both linguistically appealing and empirically sound. EMMA uses a graphbased assignment algorithm, op...
Sebastian Spiegler, Christian Monson
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Automatically Learning Source-side Reordering Rules for Large Scale Machine Translation
We describe an approach to automatically learn reordering rules to be applied as a preprocessing step in phrase-based machine translation. We learn rules for 8 different language ...
Dmitriy Genzel
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Using Web-scale N-grams to Improve Base NP Parsing Performance
We use web-scale N-grams in a base NP parser that correctly analyzes 95.4% of the base NPs in natural text. Web-scale data improves performance. That is, there is no data like mor...
Emily Pitler, Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin, Kenneth W...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
An Exploration of Features for Recognizing Word Emotion
Emotion words have been well used as the most obvious choice as feature in the task of textual emotion recognition and automatic emotion lexicon construction. In this work, we exp...
Changqin Quan, Fuji Ren
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Structured Vector Space Model for Hidden Attribute Meaning in Adjective-Noun Phrases
We present an approach to model hidden attributes in the compositional semantics of adjective-noun phrases in a distributional model. For the representation of adjective meanings,...
Matthias Hartung, Anette Frank