EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
Word alignment is the problem of annotating parallel text with translational correspondence. Previous generative word alignment models have made structural assumptions such as the...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
Product reviews posted at online shopping sites vary greatly in quality. This paper addresses the problem of detecting lowquality product reviews. Three types of biases in the exi...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We describe an incremental parser that was trained to minimize cost over sentences rather than over individual parsing actions. This is an attempt to use the advantages of the two...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
The increasing use of large open-domain document sources is exacerbating the problem of ambiguity in named entities. This paper explores the use of a range of syntactic and semant...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We present a probabilistic model of diachronic phonology in which individual word forms undergo stochastic edits along the branches of a phylogenetic tree. Our approach allows us ...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
This paper presents a novel approach for exploiting the global context for the task of word sense disambiguation (WSD). This is done by using topic features constructed using the ...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We consider the problem of learning to parse sentences to lambda-calculus representations of their underlying semantics and present an algorithm that learns a weighted combinatory...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
We present a method for learning to find English to Chinese transliterations on the Web. In our approach, proper nouns are expanded into new queries aimed at maximizing the probab...
EMNLP
2007
13 years 9 months ago
2007
Shallow semantic parsing, the automatic identification and labeling of sentential constituents, has recently received much attention. Our work examines whether semantic role info...