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ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Composite Kernel to Extract Relations between Entities with Both Flat and Structured Features
This paper proposes a novel composite kernel for relation extraction. The composite kernel consists of two individual kernels: an entity kernel that allows for entity-related feat...
Min Zhang, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Progressive Feature Selection Algorithm for Ultra Large Feature Spaces
Recent developments in statistical modeling of various linguistic phenomena have shown that additional features give consistent performance improvements. Quite often, improvements...
Qi Zhang, Fuliang Weng, Zhe Feng
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Subword-Based Tagging for Confidence-Dependent Chinese Word Segmentation
We proposed a subword-based tagging for Chinese word segmentation to improve the existing character-based tagging. The subword-based tagging was implemented using the maximum entr...
Ruiqiang Zhang, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Eiichiro Sumita
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Inducing Word Alignments with Bilexical Synchronous Trees
This paper compares different bilexical tree-based models for bilingual alignment. EM training for the new model benefits from the dynamic programming "hook trick". The ...
Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Learning of Textual Entailments with Cross-Pair Similarities
In this paper we define a novel similarity measure between examples of textual entailments and we use it as a kernel function in Support Vector Machines (SVMs). This allows us to ...
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Alessandro Moschitti
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Discursive Usage of Six Chinese Punctuation Marks
Both rhetorical structure and punctuation have been helpful in discourse processing. Based on a corpus annotation project, this paper reports the discursive usage of 6 Chinese pun...
Ming Yue
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Word Sense Disambiguation Using Lexical Cohesion in the Context
This paper designs a novel lexical hub to disambiguate word sense, using both syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations of words. It only employs the semantic network of WordNet to c...
Dongqiang Yang, David M. W. Powers
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Aligning Features with Sense Distinction Dimensions
In this paper we present word sense disambiguation (WSD) experiments on ten highly polysemous verbs in Chinese, where significant performance improvements are achieved using rich ...
Nianwen Xue, Jinying Chen, Martha Palmer
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Phonetic-Based Approach to Chinese Chat Text Normalization
Chatting is a popular communication media on the Internet via ICQ, chat rooms, etc. Chat language is different from natural language due to its anomalous and dynamic natures, whic...
Yunqing Xia, Kam-Fai Wong, Wenjie Li