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EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Fully Lexicalising CCGbank with Hat Categories
We introduce an extension to CCG that allows form and function to be represented simultaneously, reducing the proliferation of modifier categories seen in standard CCG analyses. W...
Matthew Honnibal, James R. Curran
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
The Feature Subspace Method for SMT System Combination
Recently system combination has been shown to be an effective way to improve translation quality over single machine translation systems. In this paper, we present a simple and ef...
Nan Duan, Mu Li, Tong Xiao, Ming Zhou
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Accuracy-Based Scoring for DOT: Towards Direct Error Minimization for Data-Oriented Translation
In this work we present a novel technique to rescore fragments in the Data-Oriented Translation model based on their contribution to translation accuracy. We describe three new re...
Daniel Galron, Sergio Penkale, Andy Way, I. Dan Me...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Cross-Cultural Analysis of Blogs and Forums with Mixed-Collection Topic Models
This paper presents preliminary results on the detection of cultural differences from people's experiences in various countries from two perspectives: tourists and locals. Ou...
Michael Paul, Roxana Girju
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Accurate Semantic Class Classifier for Coreference Resolution
There have been considerable attempts to incorporate semantic knowledge into coreference resolution systems: different knowledge sources such as WordNet and Wikipedia have been us...
Zhiheng Huang, Guangping Zeng, Weiqun Xu, Asli &Cc...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Using Word-Sense Disambiguation Methods to Classify Web Queries by Intent
Three methods are proposed to classify queries by intent (CQI), e.g., navigational, informational, commercial, etc. Following mixed-initiative dialog systems, search engines shoul...
Emily Pitler, Ken Ward Church
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
K-Best Combination of Syntactic Parsers
In this paper, we propose a linear model-based general framework to combine k-best parse outputs from multiple parsers. The proposed framework leverages on the strengths of previo...
Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Chew Lim Tan, Haizhou Li
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Collocation Extraction Using Monolingual Word Alignment Method
Statistical bilingual word alignment has been well studied in the context of machine translation. This paper adapts the bilingual word alignment algorithm to monolingual scenario ...
Zhan-yi Liu, Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Sheng Li
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Detecting Speculations and their Scopes in Scientific Text
Distinguishing speculative statements from factual ones is important for most biomedical text mining applications. We introduce an approach which is based on solving two sub-probl...
Arzucan Özgür, Dragomir R. Radev
EMNLP
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Gazpacho and summer rash: lexical relationships from temporal patterns of web search queries
In this paper we investigate temporal patterns of web search queries. We carry out several evaluations to analyze the properties of temporal profiles of queries, revealing promisi...
Enrique Alfonseca, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Keith H...