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2007

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Exploiting Wikipedia as External Knowledge for Named Entity Recognition

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We explore the use of Wikipedia as external knowledge to improve named entity recognition (NER). Our method retrieves the corresponding Wikipedia entry for each candidate word seq...

Jun'ichi Kazama, Kentaro Torisawa

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2007

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Determining Case in Arabic: Learning Complex Linguistic Behavior Requires Complex Linguistic Features

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This paper discusses automatic determination of case in Arabic. This task is an important part and major source of errors in full diacritization of Arabic. We use a goldstandard s...

Nizar Habash, Ryan Gabbard, Owen Rambow, Seth Kuli...

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EMNLP
2007

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Bootstrapping Information Extraction from Field Books

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We present two machine learning approaches to information extraction from semi-structured documents that can be used if no annotated training data are available, but there does ex...

Sander Canisius, Caroline Sporleder

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2007

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Smoothed Bloom Filter Language Models: Tera-Scale LMs on the Cheap

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David Talbot, Miles Osborne

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2007

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Online Learning for Deterministic Dependency Parsing

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Deterministic parsing has emerged as an effective alternative for complex parsing algorithms which search the entire search space to get the best probable parse tree. In this pape...

Prashanth Mannem

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EMNLP
2007

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Dependency Parsing and Domain Adaptation with LR Models and Parser Ensembles

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We present a data-driven variant of the LR algorithm for dependency parsing, and extend it with a best-first search for probabilistic generalized LR dependency parsing. Parser act...

Kenji Sagae, Jun-ichi Tsujii

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2007

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MavenRank: Identifying Influential Members of the US Senate Using Lexical Centrality

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Anthony Fader, Dragomir R. Radev, Michael H. Cresp...

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2007

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Single Malt or Blended? A Study in Multilingual Parser Optimization

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We describe a two-stage optimization of the MaltParser system for the ten languages in the multilingual track of the CoNLL 2007 shared task on dependency parsing. The ﬁrst stage...

Johan Hall, Jens Nilsson, Joakim Nivre, Gülse...

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2007

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What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA

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This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, speciﬁcally the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...

Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith, Teruko Mitamura

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2007

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Morphological Disambiguation of Hebrew: A Case Study in Classifier Combination

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