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COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
Answering it with Charts: Dialogue in Natural Language and Charts
A methodology is proposed for taking queries and requests expressed in natural language as input and answering them in charts through organizing that interaction into felicitous d...
Tsuneaki Kato, Mitsunori Matsushita, Eisaku Maeda
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using Bilingual Comparable Corpora
An unsupervised method for word sense disambiguation using a bilingual comparable corpus was developed. First, it extracts statistically significant pairs of related words from th...
Hiroyuki Kaji, Yasutsugu Morimoto
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
A New Probabilistic Model for Title Generation
Title generation is a complex task involving both natural language understanding and natural language synthesis. In this paper, we propose a new probabilistic model for title gene...
Rong Jin, Alexander G. Hauptmann
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
Guaranteeing Parsing Termination of Unification Grammars
Unification grammars are known to be Turingequivalent; given a grammar and a word
Efrat Jaeger, Nissim Francez, Shuly Wintner
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
Efficient Support Vector Classifiers for Named Entity Recognition
Named Entity (NE) recognition is a task in which proper nouns and numerical information are extracted from documents and are classified into categories such as person, organizatio...
Hideki Isozaki, Hideto Kazawa
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
Semiautomatic Labelling of Semantic Features
This paper presents the strategy and design of a highly efficient semiautomatic method for labelling the semantic features of common nouns, using semantic relationships between wo...
Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza Sánchez, Ai...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
Complexity of Event Structure in IE Scenarios
This paper presents new Information Extraction scenarios which are linguistically and structurally more challenging than the traditional MUC scenarios. Traditional views on event ...
Silja Huttunen, Roman Yangarber, Ralph Grishman
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
Using Knowledge to Facilitate Factoid Answer Pinpointing
In order to answer factoid questions, the Webclopedia QA system employs a range of knowledge resources. These include a QA Typology with answer patterns, WordNet, information abou...
Eduard H. Hovy, Ulf Hermjakob, Chin-Yew Lin, Deepa...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
Best Analysis Selection in Inflectional Languages
Ambiguity is the fundamental property of natural language. Perhaps, the most burdensome case of ambiguity manifests itself on the syntactic level of analysis. In order to face up ...
Ales Horák, Pavel Smrz
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
Varying Cardinality in Metonymic Extensions to Nouns
Meaning shifting phenomena such as metonymy have recently attracted increasing interest of researchers. Though these phenomena have been addressed by plenty of computational metho...
Helmut Horacek