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EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
The Linguistic Structure of English Web-Search Queries
Web-search queries are known to be short, but little else is known about their structure. In this paper we investigate the applicability of part-of-speech tagging to typical Engli...
Cory Barr, Rosie Jones, Moira Regelson
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Learning the Scope of Negation in Biomedical Texts
Roser Morante, Anthony M. L. Liekens, Walter Daele...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Who is Who and What is What: Experiments in Cross-Document Co-Reference
This paper describes a language-independent, scalable system for both challenges of crossdocument co-reference: name variation and entity disambiguation. We provide system results...
Alex Baron, Marjorie Freedman
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Cross-Task Knowledge-Constrained Self Training
We present an algorithmic framework for learning multiple related tasks. Our framework exploits a form of prior knowledge that relates the output spaces of these tasks. We present...
Hal Daumé III
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality
We combine lexical, syntactic, and discourse features to produce a highly predictive model of human readers' judgments of text readability. This is the first study to take in...
Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Sparse Multi-Scale Grammars for Discriminative Latent Variable Parsing
We present a discriminative, latent variable approach to syntactic parsing in which rules exist at multiple scales of refinement. The model is formally a latent variable CRF gramm...
Slav Petrov, Dan Klein
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Sampling Alignment Structure under a Bayesian Translation Model
We describe the first tractable Gibbs sampling procedure for estimating phrase pair frequencies under a probabilistic model of phrase alignment. We propose and evaluate two nonpar...
John DeNero, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté,...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Part-of-Speech Tagging for English-Spanish Code-Switched Text
Code-switching is an interesting linguistic phenomenon commonly observed in highly bilingual communities. It consists of mixing languages in the same conversational event. This pa...
Thamar Solorio, Yang Liu
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Learning with Compositional Semantics as Structural Inference for Subsentential Sentiment Analysis
Determining the polarity of a sentimentbearing expression requires more than a simple bag-of-words approach. In particular, words or constituents within the expression can interac...
Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Online Acquisition of Japanese Unknown Morphemes using Morphological Constraints
We propose a novel lexicon acquirer that works in concert with the morphological analyzer and has the ability to run in online mode. Every time a sentence is analyzed, it detects ...
Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi