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COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Normal-form parsing for Combinatory Categorial Grammars with generalized composition and type-raising
We propose and implement a modification of the Eisner (1996) normal form to account for generalized composition of bounded degree, and an extension to deal with grammatical type-r...
Julia Hockenmaier, Yonatan Bisk
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Towards an optimal weighting of context words based on distance
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) often relies on a context model or vector constructed from the words that co-occur with the target word within the same text windows. In most cases...
Bernard Brosseau-Villeneuve, Jian-Yun Nie, Noriko ...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Simultaneous Ranking and Clustering of Sentences: A Reinforcement Approach to Multi-Document Summarization
Multi-document summarization aims to produce a concise summary that contains salient information from a set of source documents. In this field, sentence ranking has hitherto been ...
Xiaoyan Cai, Wenjie Li, Ouyang You, Hong Yan
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
2D Trie for Fast Parsing
In practical applications, decoding speed is very important. Modern structured learning technique adopts template based method to extract millions of features. Complicated templat...
Xian Qian, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Latent Mixture of Discriminative Experts for Multimodal Prediction Modeling
During face-to-face conversation, people naturally integrate speech, gestures and higher level language interpretations to predict the right time to start talking or to give backc...
Derya Ozkan, Kenji Sagae, Louis-Philippe Morency
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Knowing What to Believe (when you already know something)
Although much work in NLP has focused on simply determining what a document means, we also must know whether or not to believe it. Fact-finding algorithms attempt to identify the ...
Jeff Pasternack, Dan Roth
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Study on Web Mining of Parallel Data
This paper1 presents an empirical approach to mining parallel corpora. Conventional approaches use a readily available collection of comparable, nonparallel corpora to extract par...
Gum-Won Hong, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Zhou, Hae-Chang Rim
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Evaluation of Dependency Parsers on Unbounded Dependencies
We evaluate two dependency parsers, MSTParser and MaltParser, with respect to their capacity to recover unbounded dependencies in English, a type of evaluation that has been appli...
Joakim Nivre, Laura Rimell, Ryan T. McDonald, Carl...