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EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Decomposability of Translation Metrics for Improved Evaluation and Efficient Algorithms
BLEU is the de facto standard for evaluation and development of statistical machine translation systems. We describe three real-world situations involving comparisons between diff...
David Chiang, Steve DeNeefe, Yee Seng Chan, Hwee T...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Summarizing Spoken and Written Conversations
In this paper we describe research on summarizing conversations in the meetings and emails domains. We introduce a conversation summarization system that works in multiple domains...
Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Selecting Sentences for Answering Complex Questions
Complex questions that require inferencing and synthesizing information from multiple documents can be seen as a kind of topicoriented, informative multi-document summarization. I...
Yllias Chali, Shafiq R. Joty
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
An Exploration of Document Impact on Graph-Based Multi-Document Summarization
The graph-based ranking algorithm has been recently exploited for multi-document summarization by making only use of the sentence-to-sentence relationships in the documents, under...
Xiaojun Wan
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Ranking Reader Emotions Using Pairwise Loss Minimization and Emotional Distribution Regression
This paper presents two approaches to ranking reader emotions of documents. Past studies assign a document to a single emotion category, so their methods cannot be applied directl...
Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations
In this paper, we present an algorithm for learning a generative model of natural language sentences together with their formal meaning representations with hierarchical structure...
Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee, Luke S. Zettlemo...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
HTM: A Topic Model for Hypertexts
Previously topic models such as PLSI (Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing) and LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) were developed for modeling the contents of plain texts. Recent...
Congkai Sun, Bin Gao, Zhenfu Cao, Hang Li
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Adapting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to Contrasting Domains
Most state-of-the-art wide-coverage parsers are trained on newspaper text and suffer a loss of accuracy in other domains, making parser adaptation a pressing issue. In this paper ...
Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Inference of the Temporal Location of Situations in Chinese Text
Chinese is a language that does not have morphological tense markers that provide explicit grammaticalization of the temporal location of situations (events or states). However, i...
Nianwen Xue