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EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Word Sense Disambiguation Incorporating Lexical and Structural Semantic Information
We present results that show that incorporating lexical and structural semantic information is effective for word sense disambiguation. We evaluated the method by using precise in...
Takaaki Tanaka, Francis Bond, Timothy Baldwin, San...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
The CoNLL 2007 Shared Task on Dependency Parsing
The Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning features a shared task, in which participants train and test their learning systems on the same data sets. In 2007, as in...
Joakim Nivre, Johan Hall, Sandra Kübler, Ryan...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Mandarin Part-of-Speech Tagging and Discriminative Reranking
We present in this paper methods to improve HMM-based part-of-speech (POS) tagging of Mandarin. We model the emission probability of an unknown word using all the characters in th...
Zhongqiang Huang, Mary P. Harper, Wen Wang
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic Coordination Disambiguation in a Fully-Lexicalized Japanese Parser
This paper describes a probabilistic model for coordination disambiguation integrated into syntactic and case structure analysis. Our model probabilistically assesses the parallel...
Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Exploiting Multi-Word Units in History-Based Probabilistic Generation
We present a simple history-based model for sentence generation from LFG f-structures, which improves on the accuracy of previous models by breaking down PCFG independence assumpt...
Deirdre Hogan, Conor Cafferkey, Aoife Cahill, Jose...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Multilingual Dependency Parsing Using Global Features
In this paper, we describe a two-stage multilingual dependency parser used for the multilingual track of the CoNLL 2007 shared task. The system consists of two components: an unla...
Tetsuji Nakagawa
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Pro3Gres Parser in the CoNLL Domain Adaptation Shared Task
We present Pro3Gres, a deep-syntactic, fast dependency parser that combines a handwritten competence grammar with probabilistic performance disambiguation and that has been used i...
Gerold Schneider, Kaarel Kaljurand, Fabio Rinaldi,...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Extending a Thesaurus in the Pan-Chinese Context
In this paper, we address a unique problem in Chinese language processing and report on our study on extending a Chinese thesaurus with region-specific words, mostly from the fina...
Oi Yee Kwong, Benjamin Ka-Yin T'sou
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Inducing Search Keys for Name Filtering
This paper describes ETK (Ensemble of Transformation based Keys) a new algorithm for inducing search keys for name filtering. ETK has the low computational cost and ability to ...
Karl Branting
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Instance Based Lexical Entailment for Ontology Population
In this paper we propose an instance based method for lexical entailment and apply it to automatic ontology population from text. The approach is fully unsupervised and based on k...
Claudio Giuliano, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo