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ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Study of Chinese Chunking
In this paper, we describe an empirical study of Chinese chunking on a corpus, which is extracted from UPENN Chinese Treebank-4 (CTB4). First, we compare the performance of the st...
Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang, Hitoshi Isahara
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Novel Association Measures Using Web Search with Double Checking
A web search with double checking model is proposed to explore the web as a live corpus. Five association measures including variants of Dice, Overlap Ratio, Jaccard, and Cosine, ...
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ming-Shun Lin, Yu-Chuan Wei
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
FAST - An Automatic Generation System for Grammar Tests
This paper introduces a method for the semi-automatic generation of grammar test items by applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Based on manually-designed pattern...
Chia-Yin Chen, Hsien-Chin Liou, Jason S. Chang
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised Relation Disambiguation Using Spectral Clustering
This paper presents an unsupervised learning approach to disambiguate various relations between name entities by use of various lexical and syntactic features from the contexts. I...
Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu ...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Relation Extraction Using Label Propagation Based Semi-Supervised Learning
Shortage of manually labeled data is an obstacle to supervised relation extraction methods. In this paper we investigate a graph based semi-supervised learning algorithm, a label ...
Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu ...
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Hybrid Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Labeling
A hybrid convolution tree kernel is proposed in this paper to effectively model syntactic structures for semantic role labeling (SRL). The hybrid kernel consists of two individual...
Wanxiang Che, Min Zhang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
A Pipeline Framework for Dependency Parsing
Pipeline computation, in which a task is decomposed into several stages that are solved sequentially, is a common computational strategy in natural language processing. The key pr...
Ming-Wei Chang, Quang Do, Dan Roth
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Estimating Class Priors in Domain Adaptation for Word Sense Disambiguation
Instances of a word drawn from different domains may have different sense priors (the proportions of the different senses of a word). This in turn affects the accuracy of word sen...
Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Towards Conversational QA: Automatic Identification of Problematic Situations and User Intent
To enable conversational QA, it is important to examine key issues addressed in conversational systems in the context of question answering. In conversational systems, understandi...
Joyce Y. Chai, Chen Zhang, Tyler Baldwin
ACL
2006
13 years 11 months ago
Morphology-Syntax Interface for Turkish LFG
This paper investigates the use of sublexical units as a solution to handling the complex morphology with productive derivational processes, in the development of a lexical functi...
Özlem Çetinoglu, Kemal Oflazer