COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
Relations between entities in text have been widely researched in the natural language processing and informationextraction communities. The region connecting a pair of entities (...
COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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...
COLING
2010
13 years 3 months ago
2010
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 ...