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EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Windowless and Window-Based Computational Association Measures as Predictors of Syntagmatic Human Associations
Distance-based (windowless) word assocation measures have only very recently appeared in the NLP literature and their performance compared to existing windowed or frequency-based ...
Justin Washtell, Katja Markert
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
We present the first unsupervised approach to the problem of learning a semantic parser, using Markov logic. Our USP system transforms dependency trees into quasi-logical forms, r...
Hoifung Poon, Pedro Domingos
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised morphological segmentation and clustering with document boundaries
Many approaches to unsupervised morphology acquisition incorporate the frequency of character sequences with respect to each other to identify word stems and affixes. This typical...
Taesun Moon, Katrin Erk, Jason Baldridge
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Clustering to Find Exemplar Terms for Keyphrase Extraction
Keyphrases are widely used as a brief summary of documents. Since manual assignment is time-consuming, various unsupervised ranking methods based on importance scores are proposed...
Zhiyuan Liu, Peng Li, Yabin Zheng, Maosong Sun
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation
This paper investigates a new task, subjectivity word sense disambiguation (SWSD), which is to automatically determine which word instances in a corpus are being used with subject...
Cem Akkaya, Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
A Unified Model of Phrasal and Sentential Evidence for Information Extraction
Information Extraction (IE) systems that extract role fillers for events typically look at the local context surrounding a phrase when deciding whether to extract it. Often, howev...
Siddharth Patwardhan, Ellen Riloff
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Investigation of Question Classifier in Question Answering
In this paper, we investigate how an accurate question classifier contributes to a question answering system. We first present a Maximum Entropy (ME) based question classifier whi...
Zhiheng Huang, Marcus Thint, Asli Çelikyilm...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Predicting Subjectivity in Multimodal Conversations
In this research we aim to detect subjective sentences in multimodal conversations. We introduce a novel technique wherein subjective patterns are learned from both labeled and un...
Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Statistical Bistratal Dependency Parsing
We present an inexact search algorithm for the problem of predicting a two-layered dependency graph. The algorithm is based on a k-best version of the standard cubictime search al...
Richard Johansson
EMNLP
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Convolution Kernels on Constituent, Dependency and Sequential Structures for Relation Extraction
This paper explores the use of innovative kernels based on syntactic and semantic structures for a target relation extraction task. Syntax is derived from constituent and dependen...
Truc-Vien T. Nguyen, Alessandro Moschitti, Giusepp...