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EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Adapting a Polarity Lexicon using Integer Linear Programming for Domain-Specific Sentiment Classification
Polarity lexicons have been a valuable resource for sentiment analysis and opinion mining. There are a number of such lexical resources available, but it is often suboptimal to us...
Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Classifier Combination for Contextual Idiom Detection Without Labelled Data
We propose a novel unsupervised approach for distinguishing literal and non-literal use of idiomatic expressions. Our model combines an unsupervised and a supervised classifier. T...
Linlin Li, Caroline Sporleder
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Lattice-based System Combination for Statistical Machine Translation
Current system combination methods usually use confusion networks to find consensus translations among different systems. Requiring one-to-one mappings between the words in candid...
Yang Feng, Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu, Yajuan L&...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Bilingually-Constrained (Monolingual) Shift-Reduce Parsing
Jointly parsing two languages has been shown to improve accuracies on either or both sides. However, its search space is much bigger than the monolingual case, forcing existing ap...
Liang Huang, Wenbin Jiang, Qun Liu
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Structural Support Vector Method for Extracting Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums
This paper addresses the issue of extracting contexts and answers of questions from post discussion of online forums. We propose a novel and unified model by customizing the struc...
Wen-Yun Yang, Yunbo Cao, Chin-Yew Lin
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Nested Named Entity Recognition
Many named entities contain other named entities inside them. Despite this fact, the field of named entity recognition has almost entirely ignored nested named entity recognition,...
Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Natural Language Generation with Tree Conditional Random Fields
This paper presents an effective method for generating natural language sentences from their underlying meaning representations. The method is built on top of a hybrid tree repres...
Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Joint Learning of Preposition Senses and Semantic Roles of Prepositional Phrases
The sense of a preposition is related to the semantics of its dominating prepositional phrase. Knowing the sense of a preposition could help to correctly classify the semantic rol...
Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng, Tanja Schultz
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Toward Completeness in Concept Extraction and Classification
Many algorithms extract terms from text together with some kind of taxonomic classification (is-a) link. However, the general approaches used today, and specifically the methods o...
Eduard H. Hovy, Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Human-competitive tagging using automatic keyphrase extraction
This paper connects two research areas: automatic tagging on the web and statistical keyphrase extraction. First, we analyze the quality of tags in a collaboratively created folks...
Olena Medelyan, Eibe Frank, Ian H. Witten