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EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Projecting Parameters for Multilingual Word Sense Disambiguation
We report in this paper a way of doing Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) that has its origin in multilingual MT and that is cognizant of the fact that parallel corpora, wordnets and...
Mitesh M. Khapra, Sapan Shah, Piyush Kedia, Pushpa...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Automatically Evaluating Content Selection in Summarization without Human Models
We present a fully automatic method for content selection evaluation in summarization that does not require the creation of human model summaries. Our work capitalizes on the assu...
Annie Louis, Ani Nenkova
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Improved Statistical Machine Translation Using Monolingually-Derived Paraphrases
Untranslated words still constitute a major problem for Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), and current SMT systems are limited by the quantity of parallel training texts. Augm...
Yuval Marton, Chris Callison-Burch, Philip Resnik
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Semi-Supervised Learning for Semantic Relation Classification using Stratified Sampling Strategy
This paper presents a new approach to selecting the initial seed set using stratified sampling strategy in bootstrapping-based semi-supervised learning for semantic relation class...
Longhua Qian, Guodong Zhou, Fang Kong, Qiaoming Zh...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Polylingual Topic Models
Topic models are a useful tool for analyzing large text collections, but have previously been applied in only monolingual, or at most bilingual, contexts. Meanwhile, massive colle...
David M. Mimno, Hanna M. Wallach, Jason Naradowsky...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Supervised and Unsupervised Methods in Employing Discourse Relations for Improving Opinion Polarity Classification
This work investigates design choices in modeling a discourse scheme for improving opinion polarity classification. For this, two diverse global inference paradigms are used: a su...
Swapna Somasundaran, Galileo Namata, Janyce Wiebe,...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relations in the Penn Discourse Treebank
We present an implicit discourse relation classifier in the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB). Our classifier considers the context of the two arguments, word pair information, as we...
Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan, Hwee Tou Ng
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Empirical Exploitation of Click Data for Task Specific Ranking
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
An Alternative to Head-Driven Approaches for Parsing a (Relatively) Free Word-Order Language
Applying statistical parsers developed for English to languages with freer wordorder has turned out to be harder than expected. This paper investigates the adequacy of different s...
Reut Tsarfaty, Khalil Sima'an, Remko Scha
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Real-time decision detection in multi-party dialogue
We describe a process for automatically detecting decision-making sub-dialogues in multi-party, human-human meetings in real-time. Our basic approach to decision detection involve...
Matthew Frampton, Jia Huang, Trung H. Bui, Stanley...