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COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
EMMA: A novel Evaluation Metric for Morphological Analysis
We present a novel Evaluation Metric for Morphological Analysis (EMMA) that is both linguistically appealing and empirically sound. EMMA uses a graphbased assignment algorithm, op...
Sebastian Spiegler, Christian Monson
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Automatically Learning Source-side Reordering Rules for Large Scale Machine Translation
We describe an approach to automatically learn reordering rules to be applied as a preprocessing step in phrase-based machine translation. We learn rules for 8 different language ...
Dmitriy Genzel
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Using Web-scale N-grams to Improve Base NP Parsing Performance
We use web-scale N-grams in a base NP parser that correctly analyzes 95.4% of the base NPs in natural text. Web-scale data improves performance. That is, there is no data like mor...
Emily Pitler, Shane Bergsma, Dekang Lin, Kenneth W...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
An Exploration of Features for Recognizing Word Emotion
Emotion words have been well used as the most obvious choice as feature in the task of textual emotion recognition and automatic emotion lexicon construction. In this work, we exp...
Changqin Quan, Fuji Ren
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
A Structured Vector Space Model for Hidden Attribute Meaning in Adjective-Noun Phrases
We present an approach to model hidden attributes in the compositional semantics of adjective-noun phrases in a distributional model. For the representation of adjective meanings,...
Matthias Hartung, Anette Frank
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Self-Annotation for fine-grained geospatial relation extraction
A great deal of information on the Web is represented in both textual and structured form. The structured form is machinereadable and can be used to augment the textual data. We c...
André Blessing, Hinrich Schütze
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Unsupervised Synthesis of Multilingual Wikipedia Articles
In this paper, we propose an unsupervised approach to automatically synthesize Wikipedia articles in multiple languages. Taking an existing high-quality version of any entry as co...
Yuncong Chen, Pascale Fung
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Learning the Scope of Negation via Shallow Semantic Parsing
In this paper we present a simplified shallow semantic parsing approach to learning the scope of negation (SoN). This is done by formulating it as a shallow semantic parsing probl...
Junhui Li, Guodong Zhou, Hongling Wang, Qiaoming Z...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Paraphrase Alignment for Synonym Evidence Discovery
We describe a new unsupervised approach for synonymy discovery by aligning paraphrases in monolingual domain corpora. For that purpose, we identify phrasal terms that convey most ...
Gintare Grigonyte, João Cordeiro, Gaël...
COLING
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Joint Tokenization and Translation
As tokenization is usually ambiguous for many natural languages such as Chinese and Korean, tokenization errors might potentially introduce translation mistakes for translation sy...
Xinyan Xiao, Yang Liu, Young-Sook Hwang, Qun Liu, ...