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CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Semantic-Based Question Reformulations for Question Answering
Abstract. In this paper, we present a method for the automatic acquisition of semantic-based reformulations from natural language questions. Our goal is to find useful and generic ...
Jamileh Yousefi, Leila Kosseim
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A General and Multi-lingual Phrase Chunking Model Based on Masking Method
Several phrase chunkers have been proposed over the past few years. Some state-of-the-art chunkers achieved better performance via integrating external resources, e.g., parsers and...
Yu-Chieh Wu, Chia-Hui Chang, Yue-Shi Lee
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Unsupervised Language Independent Method of Name Discrimination Using Second Order Co-occurrence Features
Previous work by Pedersen, Purandare and Kulkarni (2005) has resulted in an unsupervised method of name discrimination that represents the context in which an ambiguous name occurs...
Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni, Roxana Angheluta, Z...
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Referring Via Document Parts
Documents in a wide range of genres often contain references to their own sections, pictures etc. We call such referring expressions instances of Document Deixis. The present work ...
Ivandré Paraboni, Kees van Deemter
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Verb Argument Structures
We present a statistical generative model for unsupervised learning of verb argument structures. The model was used to automatically induce the argument structures for the 1,500 mo...
Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Daniel Marcu, Ma...
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Predicting Dialogue Acts from Prosodic Information
In this paper, the influence of intonation to recognize dialogue acts from speech is assessed. Assessment is based on an empirical approach: manually tagged data from a spoken-dial...
Sergio Rafael Coria Olguin, Luis Alberto Pineda Co...
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Abbreviation Recognition with MaxEnt Model
Abbreviated words carry critical information in the literature of many special domains. This paper reports our research in recognizing dotted abbreviations with MaxEnt model. The k...
Chunyu Kit, Xiaoyue Liu, Jonathan J. Webster
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
NLP (Natural Language Processing) for NLP (Natural Language Programming)
Abstract. Natural Language Processing holds great promise for making computer interfaces that are easier to use for people, since people will (hopefully) be able to talk to the com...
Rada Mihalcea, Hugo Liu, Henry Lieberman
CICLING
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Sequences of Part of Speech Tags vs. Sequences of Phrase Labels: How Do They Help in Parsing?
We compare the contributions made by sequences of part of speech tags and sequences of phrase labels for the task of grammatical relation finding. Both are used for grammar inducti...
Gabriel G. Infante López, Maarten de Rijke