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COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Metaphor Identification Using Verb and Noun Clustering
We present a novel approach to automatic metaphor identification in unrestricted text. Starting from a small seed set of manually annotated metaphorical expressions, the system is...
Ekaterina Shutova, Lin Sun, Anna Korhonen
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Evaluating Dependency Representations for Event Extraction
Makoto Miwa, Sampo Pyysalo, Tadayoshi Hara, Jun-ic...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
A Working Report on Statistically Modeling Dative Variation in Mandarin Chinese
Dative variation is a widely observed syntactic phenomenon in world languages (e.g. I gave John a book and I gave a book to John). It has been shown that which surface form will b...
Yao Yao, Feng-hsi Liu
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Feature-Rich Discriminative Phrase Rescoring for SMT
This paper proposes a new approach to phrase rescoring for statistical machine translation (SMT). A set of novel features capturing the translingual equivalence between a source a...
Fei Huang, Bing Xiang
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Near-synonym Lexical Choice in Latent Semantic Space
We explore the near-synonym lexical choice problem using a novel representation of near-synonyms and their contexts in the latent semantic space. In contrast to traditional latent...
Tong Wang, Graeme Hirst
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Bringing Active Learning to Life
Active learning has been applied to different NLP tasks, with the aim of limiting the amount of time and cost for human annotation. Most studies on active learning have only simul...
Ines Rehbein, Josef Ruppenhofer, Alexis Palmer
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
A Hierarchical Classifier Applied to Multi-way Sentiment Detection
This paper considers the problem of document-level multi-way sentiment detection, proposing a hierarchical classifier algorithm that accounts for the inter-class similarity of tag...
Adrian Bickerstaffe, Ingrid Zukerman
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
A Utility-Driven Approach to Question Ranking in Social QA
We generalize the task of finding question paraphrases in a question repository to a novel formulation in which known questions are ranked based on their utility to a new, referen...
Razvan C. Bunescu, Yunfeng Huang
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Adaptive Development Data Selection for Log-linear Model in Statistical Machine Translation
This paper addresses the problem of dynamic model parameter selection for loglinear model based statistical machine translation (SMT) systems. In this work, we propose a principle...
Mu Li, Yinggong Zhao, Dongdong Zhang, Ming Zhou
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Build Chinese Emotion Lexicons Using A Graph-based Algorithm and Multiple Resources
For sentiment analysis, lexicons play an important role in many related tasks. In this paper, aiming to build Chinese emotion lexicons for public use, we adopted a graph-based alg...
Ge Xu, Xinfan Meng, Houfeng Wang