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ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Using WordNet to Automatically Deduce Relations between Words in Noun-Noun Compounds
We present an algorithm for automatically disambiguating noun-noun compounds by deducing the correct semantic relation between their constituent words. This algorithm uses a corpu...
Fintan J. Costello, Tony Veale, Simon Dunne
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Topic-Focused Multi-Document Summarization Using an Approximate Oracle Score
We consider the problem of producing a multi-document summary given a collection of documents. Since most successful methods of multi-document summarization are still largely extr...
John M. Conroy, Judith D. Schlesinger, Dianne P. O...
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Discriminative Reranking for Semantic Parsing
Semantic parsing is the task of mapping natural language sentences to complete formal meaning representations. The performance of semantic parsing can be potentially improved by u...
Ruifang Ge, Raymond J. Mooney
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Models for Sentence Compression: A Comparison across Domains, Training Requirements and Evaluation Measures
Sentence compression is the task of producing a summary at the sentence level. This paper focuses on three aspects of this task which have not received detailed treatment in the l...
James Clarke, Mirella Lapata
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Partially Specified Signatures: A Vehicle for Grammar Modularity
This work provides the essential foundations for modular construction of (typed) unification grammars for natural languages. Much of the information in such grammars is encoded in...
Yael Cohen-Sygal, Shuly Wintner
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Constraint-Based Sentence Compression: An Integer Programming Approach
The ability to compress sentences while preserving their grammaticality and most of their meaning has recently received much attention. Our work views sentence compression as an o...
James Clarke, Mirella Lapata
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Using Machine-Learning to Assign Function Labels to Parser Output for Spanish
Data-driven grammatical function tag assignment has been studied for English using the Penn-II Treebank data. In this paper we address the question of whether such methods can be ...
Grzegorz Chrupala, Josef van Genabith
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
An Account for Compound Prepositions in Farsi
There are some sorts of `Preposition + Noun' combinations in Farsi that apparently a Prepositional Phrase almost behaves as Compound Prepositions. As they are not completely ...
Zahra Abolhassani Chime
ACL
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Soft Syntactic Constraints for Word Alignment through Discriminative Training
Word alignment methods can gain valuable guidance by ensuring that their alignments maintain cohesion with respect to the phrases specified by a monolingual dependency tree. Howev...
Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin