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COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Identifying Anaphoric and Non-Anaphoric Noun Phrases to Improve Coreference Resolution
We present a supervised learning approach to identification of anaphoric and non-anaphoric noun phrases and show how such information can be incorporated into a coreference resolu...
Vincent Ng, Claire Cardie
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
A Methodology for Terminology-based Knowledge Acquisition and Integration
In this paper we propose an integrated knowledge management system in which terminology-based knowledge acquisition, knowledge integration, and XML-based knowledge retrieval are c...
Hideki Mima, Sophia Ananiadou, Goran Nenadic, Jun-...
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Learning Chinese Bracketing Knowledge Based on a Bilingual Language Model
This paper proposes a new method for automatic acquisition of Chinese bracketing knowledge from English-Chinese sentencealigned bilingual corpora. Bilingual sentence pairs are fir...
Yajuan Lü, Sheng Li, Tiejun Zhao, Muyun Yang
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Building a Bilingual WordNet-Like Lexicon: The New Approach and Algorithms
A bilingual concept MRD is of significance for IE, MT, WSD and the like. However, it is reasonably difficult to build such a lexicon for there exist two ontologies, also, the evol...
Yang Liu, Shiwen Yu, Jiangsheng Yu
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Concept Discovery from Text
Broad-coverage lexical resources such as WordNet are extremely useful. However, they often include many rare senses while missing domain-specific senses. We present a clustering a...
Dekang Lin, Patrick Pantel
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Location Normalization for Information Extraction
Ambiguity is very high for location names. For example, there are 23 cities named `Buffalo' in the U.S. Country names such as `Canada', `Brazil' and `China' ar...
Huifeng Li, Rohini K. Srihari, Cheng Niu, Wei Li 0...
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
The Effectiveness of Dictionary and Web-Based Answer Reranking
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
Chin-Yew Lin
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
Learning Question Classifiers
In order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of texts, one needs to understand the question to a level that allows determining some of th...
Xin Li, Dan Roth
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
A DAML+OIL-Compliant Chinese Lexical Ontology
This paper presents an ongoing task that will construct a DAML+OIL-compliant Chinese Lexical Ontology. The ontology mainly comprises three components: a hierarchical taxonomy cons...
Yu-Sheng Lai, Ren-Jr Wang, Wei-Tek Hsu
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
(Semi-)Automatic Detection of Errors in PoS-Tagged Corpora
This paper presents a simple yet in practice very efficient technique serving for automatic detection of those positions in a partof-speech tagged corpus where an error is to be s...
Pavel Kveton, Karel Oliva