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EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Edit Machines for Robust Multimodal Language Processing
Multimodal grammars provide an expressive formalism for multimodal integration and understanding. However, handcrafted multimodal grammars can be brittle with respect to unexpecte...
Srinivas Bangalore, Michael Johnston
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Why Are They Excited? Identifying and Explaining Spikes in Blog Mood Levels
We describe a method for discovering irregularities in temporal mood patterns appearing in a large corpus of blog posts, and labeling them with a natural language explanation. Sim...
Krisztian Balog, Gilad Mishne, Maarten de Rijke
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Multi-Document Summarization of Evaluative Text
We present and compare two approaches to the task of summarizing evaluative arguments. The first is a sentence extractionbased approach while the second is a language generation-b...
Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng, Adam Pauls
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Discovery of Persian Morphemes
This paper reports the present results of a research on unsupervised Persian morpheme discovery. In this paper we present a method for discovering the morphemes of Persian languag...
Mohsen Arabsorkhi, Mehrnoush Shamsfard
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
A Two-Stage Approach to Retrieving Answers for How-To Questions
This paper addresses the problem of automatically retrieving answers for how-to questions, focusing on those that inquire about the procedure for achieving a specific goal. For su...
Ling Yin
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Using Encyclopedic Knowledge for Named entity Disambiguation
We present a new method for detecting and disambiguating named entities in open domain text. A disambiguation SVM kernel is trained to exploit the high coverage and rich structure...
Razvan C. Bunescu, Marius Pasca
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Word Sense Induction: Triplet-Based Clustering and Automatic Evaluation
In this paper a novel solution to automatic and unsupervised word sense induction (WSI) is introduced. It represents an instantiation of the `one sense per collocation' obser...
Stefan Bordag
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 9 months ago
Generating and Visualizing a Soccer Knowledge Base
o abstract describes the SmartWeb Ontology-based Annotation system (SOBA). A key feature of SOBA is that all information is extracted and stored with respect to the SmartWeb Integ...
Paul Buitelaar, Thomas Eigner, Greg Gul-rajani, Al...
ACL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
A Pipeline Framework for Dependency Parsing
Pipeline computation, in which a task is decomposed into several stages that are solved sequentially, is a common computational strategy in natural language processing. The key pr...
Ming-Wei Chang, Quang Do, Dan Roth
ACL
2006
13 years 9 months ago
NLTK: The Natural Language Toolkit
The Natural Language Toolkit is a suite of program modules, data sets and tutorials supporting research and teaching in computational linguistics and natural language processing. ...
Steven Bird