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ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
A Bayesian Model for Unsupervised Semantic Parsing
We propose a non-parametric Bayesian model for unsupervised semantic parsing. Following Poon and Domingos (2009), we consider a semantic parsing setting where the goal is to (1) d...
Ivan Titov, Alexandre Klementiev
ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Unsupervised Decomposition of a Document into Authorial Components
We propose a novel unsupervised method for separating out distinct authorial components of a document. In particular, we show that, given a book artificially “munged” from two...
Moshe Koppel, Navot Akiva, Idan Dershowitz, Nachum...
ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Event Discovery in Social Media Feeds
We present a novel method for record extraction from social streams such as Twitter. Unlike typical extraction setups, these environments are characterized by short, one sentence ...
Edward Benson, Aria Haghighi, Regina Barzilay
ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
A Class of Submodular Functions for Document Summarization
We design a class of submodular functions meant for document summarization tasks. These functions each combine two terms, one which encourages the summary to be representative of ...
Hui Lin, Jeff Bilmes
ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Gappy Phrasal Alignment By Agreement
We propose a principled and efficient phraseto-phrase alignment model, useful in machine translation as well as other related natural language processing problems. In a hidden se...
Mohit Bansal, Chris Quirk, Robert C. Moore
ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Learning Dependency-Based Compositional Semantics
Compositional question answering begins by mapping questions to logical forms, but training a semantic parser to perform this mapping typically requires the costly annotation of t...
Percy Liang, Michael I. Jordan, Dan Klein
ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Contrasting Opposing Views of News Articles on Contentious Issues
We present disputant relation-based method for classifying news articles on contentious issues. We observe that the disputants of a contention are an important feature for underst...
Souneil Park, Kyung Soon Lee, Junehwa Song