COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Annotated corpora are only useful if their annotations are consistent. Most large-scale annotation efforts take special measures to reconcile inter-annotator disagreement. To date...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
As Chinese text is written without word boundaries, effectively recognizing Chinese words is like recognizing collocations in English, substituting characters for words and words ...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Community-based question answering (cQA) services have accumulated millions of questions and their answers over time. In the process of accumulation, cQA services assume that ques...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Creative metaphor is a phenomenon that stretches and bends the conventions of semantic description, often to humorous and poetic extremes. The computational modeling of metaphor t...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Much previous work has investigated weak supervision with HMMs and tag dictionaries for part-of-speech tagging, but there have been no similar investigations for the harder proble...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Supervised approaches to Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) have been shown to outperform other approaches but are hampered by reliance on labeled training examples (the data acquisi...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
The task of identifying redundant information in documents that are generated from multiple sources provides a significant challenge for summarization and QA systems. Traditional ...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Many reordering approaches have been proposed for the statistical machine translation (SMT) system. However, the information about the type of source sentence is ignored in the pr...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
The paper offers a new type of approach to the semantic phenomenon of adverbial aspect shift within the framework of finitestate temporal semantics. The heart of the proposal is a...