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COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Learning to Predict Readability using Diverse Linguistic Features
In this paper we consider the problem of building a system to predict readability of natural-language documents. Our system is trained using diverse features based on syntax and l...
Rohit J. Kate, Xiaoqiang Luo, Siddharth Patwardhan...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
EMDC: A Semi-supervised Approach for Word Alignment
This paper proposes a novel semisupervised word alignment technique called EMDC that integrates discriminative and generative methods. A discriminative aligner is used to find hig...
Qin Gao, Francisco Guzmán, Stephan Vogel
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Syntactic Scope Resolution in Uncertainty Analysis
Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal, Stephan Oepen
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
A Minimum Error Weighting Combination Strategy for Chinese Semantic Role Labeling
Many Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) combination strategies have been proposed and tested on English SRL task. But little is known about how much Chinese SRL can benefit from system ...
Tao Zhuang, Chengqing Zong
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Modeling Socio-Cultural Phenomena in Discourse
In this paper, we describe a novel approach to computational modeling and understanding of social and cultural phenomena in multi-party dialogues. We developed a two-tier approach...
Tomek Strzalkowski, George Aaron Broadwell, Jennif...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
An ontology-driven system for detecting global health events
Text mining for global health surveillance is an emerging technology that is gaining increased attention from public health organisations and governments. The lack of multilingual...
Nigel Collier, Reiko Matsuda Goodwin, John McCrae,...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised phonemic Chinese word segmentation using Adaptor Grammars
Adaptor grammars are a framework for expressing and performing inference over a variety of non-parametric linguistic models. These models currently provide state-of-the-art perfor...
Mark Johnson, Katherine Demuth