Sciweavers

EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
One-Class Clustering in the Text Domain
Having seen a news title "Alba denies wedding reports", how do we infer that it is primarily about Jessica Alba, rather than about weddings or reports? We probably reali...
Ron Bekkerman, Koby Crammer
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Dependency-based Semantic Role Labeling of PropBank
We present a PropBank semantic role labeling system for English that is integrated with a dependency parser. To tackle the problem of joint syntactic
Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Adding Redundant Features for CRFs-based Sentence Sentiment Classification
In this paper, we present a novel method based on CRFs in response to the two special characteristics of "contextual dependency" and "label redundancy" in sent...
Jun Zhao, Kang Liu, Gen Wang
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A comparison of Bayesian estimators for unsupervised Hidden Markov Model POS taggers
There is growing interest in applying Bayesian techniques to NLP problems. There are a number of different estimators for Bayesian models, and it is useful to know what kinds of t...
Jianfeng Gao, Mark Johnson
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Syntactic Constraints on Paraphrases Extracted from Parallel Corpora
We improve the quality of paraphrases extracted from parallel corpora by requiring that phrases and their paraphrases be the same syntactic type. This is achieved by parsing the E...
Chris Callison-Burch
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Predicting Success in Machine Translation
The performance of machine translation systems varies greatly depending on the source and target languages involved. Determining the contribution of different characteristics of l...
Alexandra Birch, Miles Osborne, Philipp Koehn
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Discriminative Learning of Selectional Preference from Unlabeled Text
We present a discriminative method for learning selectional preferences from unlabeled text. Positive examples are taken from observed predicate-argument pairs, while negatives ar...
Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin, Randy Goebel
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Mining and Modeling Relations between Formal and Informal Chinese Phrases from Web Corpora
We present a novel method for discovering and modeling the relationship between informal Chinese expressions (including colloquialisms and instant-messaging slang) and their forma...
Zhifei Li, David Yarowsky
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling Annotators: A Generative Approach to Learning from Annotator Rationales
A human annotator can provide hints to a machine learner by highlighting contextual "rationales" for each of his or her annotations (Zaidan et al., 2007). How can one ex...
Omar Zaidan, Jason Eisner
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Word Sense Disambiguation Using OntoNotes: An Empirical Study
The accuracy of current word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems is affected by the fine-grained sense inventory of WordNet as well as a lack of training examples. Using the WSD ex...
Zhi Zhong, Hwee Tou Ng, Yee Seng Chan