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COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Improving the Quality of Text Understanding by Delaying Ambiguity Resolution
Text Understanding systems often commit to a single best interpretation of a sentence before analyzing subsequent text. This interpretation is chosen by resolving ambiguous altern...
Doo Soon Kim, Ken Barker, Bruce W. Porter
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Entity-Focused Sentence Simplification for Relation Extraction
Relations between entities in text have been widely researched in the natural language processing and informationextraction communities. The region connecting a pair of entities (...
Makoto Miwa, Rune Sætre, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-i...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Resolving Surface Forms to Wikipedia Topics
Ambiguity of entity mentions and concept references is a challenge to mining text beyond surface-level keywords. We describe an effective method of disambiguating surface forms an...
Yiping Zhou, Lan Nie, Omid Rouhani-Kalleh, Flavian...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Identifying Multi-word Expressions by Leveraging Morphological and Syntactic Idiosyncrasy
Multi-word expressions constitute a significant portion of the lexicon of every natural language, and handling them correctly is mandatory for various NLP applications. Yet such e...
Hassan Al-Haj, Shuly Wintner
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Forest-guided Supertagger Training
Supertagging is an important technique for deep syntactic analysis. A supertagger is usually trained independently of the parser using a sequence labeling method. This presents an...
Yao-zhong Zhang, Takuya Matsuzaki, Jun-ichi Tsujii
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Leveraging Multiple MT Engines for Paraphrase Generation
This paper proposes a method that leverages multiple machine translation (MT) engines for paraphrase generation (PG). The method includes two stages. Firstly, we use a multi-pivot...
Shiqi Zhao, Haifeng Wang, Xiang Lan, Ting Liu
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
A Cross-lingual Annotation Projection Approach for Relation Detection
While extensive studies on relation extraction have been conducted in the last decade, statistical systems based on supervised learning are still limited because they require larg...
Seokhwan Kim, Minwoo Jeong, Jonghoon Lee, Gary Geu...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Open Entity Extraction from Web Search Query Logs
In this paper we propose a completely unsupervised method for open-domain entity extraction and clustering over query logs. The underlying hypothesis is that classes defined by mi...
Alpa Jain, Marco Pennacchiotti
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Discriminative Training for Near-Synonym Substitution
Near-synonyms are useful knowledge resources for many natural language applications such as query expansion for information retrieval (IR) and paraphrasing for text generation. Ho...
Liang-Chih Yu, Hsiu-Min Shih, Yu-Ling Lai, Jui-Fen...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Citation Summarization Through Keyphrase Extraction
This paper presents an approach to summarize single scientific papers, by extracting its contributions from the set of citation sentences written in other papers. Our methodology ...
Vahed Qazvinian, Dragomir R. Radev, Arzucan Ö...