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EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Construction of a Blog Emotion Corpus for Chinese Emotional Expression Analysis
There is plenty of evidence that emotion analysis has many valuable applications. In this study a blog emotion corpus is constructed for Chinese emotional expression analysis. Thi...
Changqin Quan, Fuji Ren
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
First- and Second-Order Expectation Semirings with Applications to Minimum-Risk Training on Translation Forests
Many statistical translation models can be regarded as weighted logical deduction. Under this paradigm, we use weights from the expectation semiring (Eisner, 2002), to compute fir...
Zhifei Li, Jason Eisner
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Enhancement of Lexical Concepts Using Cross-lingual Web Mining
Sets of lexical items sharing a significant aspect of their meaning (concepts) are fundamental in linguistics and NLP. Manual concept compilation is labor intensive, error prone a...
Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Refining Grammars for Parsing with Hierarchical Semantic Knowledge
This paper proposes a novel method to refine the grammars in parsing by utilizing semantic knowledge from HowNet. Based on the hierarchical state-split approach, which can refine ...
Xiaojun Lin, Yang Fan, Meng Zhang, Xihong Wu, Huis...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Improving Dependency Parsing with Subtrees from Auto-Parsed Data
This paper presents a simple and effective approach to improve dependency parsing by using subtrees from auto-parsed data. First, we use a baseline parser to parse large-scale una...
Wenliang Chen, Jun'ichi Kazama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto,...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Discriminative Corpus Weight Estimation for Machine Translation
Current statistical machine translation (SMT) systems are trained on sentencealigned and word-aligned parallel text collected from various sources. Translation model parameters ar...
Spyros Matsoukas, Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Bing Zhan...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Improving Web Search Relevance with Semantic Features
Most existing information retrieval (IR) systems do not take much advantage of natural language processing (NLP) techniques due to the complexity and limited observed effectivenes...
Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Gilad Mishne, Xing Wei, Ben...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Quantifier Scope Disambiguation Using Extracted Pragmatic Knowledge: Preliminary Results
It is well known that pragmatic knowledge is useful and necessary in many difficult language processing tasks, but because this knowledge is difficult to acquire and process autom...
Prakash Srinivasan, Alexander Yates
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
An Empirical Study of Semi-supervised Structured Conditional Models for Dependency Parsing
This paper describes an empirical study of high-performance dependency parsers based on a semi-supervised learning approach. We describe an extension of semisupervised structured ...
Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki, Xavier Carreras, Micha...