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ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation
Developing better methods for segmenting continuous text into words is important for improving the processing of Asian languages, and may shed light on how humans learn to segment...
Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Johnso...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Event Extraction in a Plot Advice Agent
In this paper we present how the automatic extraction of events from text can be used to both classify narrative texts according to plot quality and produce advice in an interacti...
Harry Halpin, Johanna D. Moore
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Discriminative Classifiers for Deterministic Dependency Parsing
Deterministic parsing guided by treebankinduced classifiers has emerged as a simple and efficient alternative to more complex models for data-driven parsing. We present a systemat...
Johan Hall, Joakim Nivre, Jens Nilsson
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs
A grammatical method of combining two kinds of speech repair cues is presented. One cue, prosodic disjuncture, is detected by a decision tree-based ensemble classifier that uses a...
John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie J. Dor...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Exploiting Comparable Corpora and Bilingual Dictionaries for Cross-Language Text Categorization
Cross-language Text Categorization is the task of assigning semantic classes to documents written in a target language (e.g. English) while the system is trained using labeled doc...
Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Carlo Strapparava
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Speeding Up Full Syntactic Parsing by Leveraging Partial Parsing Decisions
Parsing is a computationally intensive task due to the combinatorial explosion seen in chart parsing algorithms that explore possible parse trees. In this paper, we propose a meth...
Elliot Glaysher, Dan I. Moldovan
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Semantic Role Labeling via FrameNet, VerbNet and PropBank
This article describes a robust semantic parser that uses a broad knowledge base created by interconnecting three major resources: FrameNet, VerbNet and PropBank. The FrameNet cor...
Ana-Maria Giuglea, Alessandro Moschitti
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Selection of Effective Contextual Information for Automatic Synonym Acquisition
Various methods have been proposed for automatic synonym acquisition, as synonyms are one of the most fundamental lexical knowledge. Whereas many methods are based on contextual c...
Masato Hagiwara, Yasuhiro Ogawa, Katsuhiko Toyama
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Prototype-Driven Grammar Induction
We investigate prototype-driven learning for primarily unsupervised grammar induction. Prior knowledge is specified declaratively, by providing a few canonical examples of each ta...
Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein