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COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
A Review Selection Approach for Accurate Feature Rating Estimation
In this paper, we propose a review selection approach towards accurate estimation of feature ratings for services on participatory websites where users write textual reviews for t...
Chong Long, Jie Zhang, Xiaoyan Zhu
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Discriminant Ranking for Efficient Treebanking
Treebank annotation is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task. In this paper, we show that a simple statistical ranking model can significantly improve treebanking efficiency b...
Yi Zhang 0003, Valia Kordoni
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Shallow Information Extraction from Medical Forum Data
We study a novel shallow information extraction problem that involves extracting sentences of a given set of topic categories from medical forum data. Given a corpus of medical fo...
Parikshit Sondhi, Manish Gupta, ChengXiang Zhai, J...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Building Systematic Reviews Using Automatic Text Classification Techniques
The amount of information in medical publications continues to increase at a tremendous rate. Systematic reviews help to process this growing body of information. They are fundame...
Oana Frunza, Diana Inkpen, Stan Matwin
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
A Global Relaxation Labeling Approach to Coreference Resolution
This paper describes the participation of RelaxCor in the Semeval-2010 task number 1: "Coreference Resolution in Multiple Languages". RelaxCor is a constraint-based grap...
Emili Sapena, Lluís Padró, Jordi Tur...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Boosting Relation Extraction with Limited Closed-World Knowledge
This paper presents a new approach to improving relation extraction based on minimally supervised learning. By adding some limited closed-world knowledge for confidence estimation...
Feiyu Xu, Hans Uszkoreit, Sebastian Krause, Hong L...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Automatic Temporal Expression Normalization with Reference Time Dynamic-Choosing
Temporal expressions in texts contain significant temporal information. Understanding temporal information is very useful in many NLP applications, such as information extraction,...
Xujian Zhao, Peiquan Jin, Lihua Yue
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Notes on the Evaluation of Dependency Parsers Obtained Through Cross-Lingual Projection
In this paper we address methodological issues in the evaluation of a projectionbased framework for dependency parsing in which annotations for a source language are transfered to...
Kathrin Spreyer
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Exploiting Paraphrases and Deferred Sense Commitment to Interpret Questions more Reliably
Creating correct, semantic representations of questions is essential for applications that can use formal reasoning to answer them. However, even within a restricted domain, it is...
Peter Clark, Philip Harrison