COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
As unlexicalized parsing lacks word token information, it is important to investigate novel parsing features to improve the accuracy. This paper studies a set of tree topological ...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
This paper presents a novel method for acquiring a set of query patterns to retrieve documents containing important information about an entity. Given an existing Wikipedia catego...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
A weakly supervised method uses anonymized search queries to induce a ranking among class labels extracted from unstructured text for various instances. The accuracy of the extrac...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
We investigate the effectiveness of different linguistic cues for distinguishing literal and non-literal usages of potentially idiomatic expressions. We focus specifically on feat...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
We propose a methodology for investigating how well NLP systems handle meaning preserving syntactic variations. We start by presenting a method for the semi automated creation of ...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Verb suffixes and verb complexes of morphologically rich languages carry a lot of information. We show that this information if harnessed for the task of shallow parsing can lead ...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Information Extraction (IE) technology is facing new challenges of dealing with large-scale heterogeneous data sources from different documents, languages and modalities. Informat...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
In this paper we look at the problem of cleansing noisy text using a statistical machine translation model. Noisy text is produced in informal communications such as Short Message...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
2010
There often exist multiple corpora for the same natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, such corpora are generally used independently due to distinctions in annotation s...