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EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Computing Word-Pair Antonymy
Knowing the degree of antonymy between words has widespread applications in natural language processing. Manually-created lexicons have limited coverage and do not include most se...
Saif Mohammad, Bonnie J. Dorr, Graeme Hirst
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Relative Rank Statistics for Dialog Analysis
We introduce the relative rank differential statistic which is a non-parametric approach to document and dialog analysis based on word frequency rank-statistics. We also present a...
Juan Huerta
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Using Bilingual Knowledge and Ensemble Techniques for Unsupervised Chinese Sentiment Analysis
It is a challenging task to identify sentiment polarity of Chinese reviews because the resources for Chinese sentiment analysis are limited. Instead of leveraging only monolingual...
Xiaojun Wan
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for POS Tagging
We demonstrate the effectiveness of multilingual learning for unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. The key hypothesis of multilingual learning is that by combining cues from multi...
Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, Jacob Eisenstein, ...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Simple and Effective Hierarchical Phrase Reordering Model
While phrase-based statistical machine translation systems currently deliver state-of-theart performance, they remain weak on word order changes. Current phrase reordering models ...
Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
LTAG Dependency Parsing with Bidirectional Incremental Construction
In this paper, we first introduce a new architecture for parsing, bidirectional incremental parsing. We propose a novel algorithm for incremental construction, which can be applie...
Libin Shen, Aravind K. Joshi
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Question Classification using Head Words and their Hypernyms
Question classification plays an important role in question answering. Features are the key to obtain an accurate question classifier. In contrast to Li and Roth (2002)'s app...
Zhiheng Huang, Marcus Thint, Zengchang Qin
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Transliteration as Constrained Optimization
This paper introduces a new method for identifying named-entity (NE) transliterations in bilingual corpora. Recent works have shown the advantage of discriminative approaches to t...
Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation
Although research in other languages is increasing, much of the work in subjectivity analysis has been applied to English data, mainly due to the large body of electronic resource...
Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea, Janyce Wiebe, Samer H...