ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
This paper proposes a method to extract product features from user reviews and generate a review summary. This method only relies on product specifications, which usually are easy...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
The Columbia Arabic Treebank (CATiB) is a database of syntactic analyses of Arabic sentences. CATiB contrasts with previous approaches to Arabic treebanking in its emphasis on spe...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
This paper proposes a novel user intention simulation method which is a data-driven approach but able to integrate diverse user discourse knowledge together to simulate various ty...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Tree substitution grammars (TSGs) offer many advantages over context-free grammars (CFGs), but are hard to learn. Past approaches have resorted to heuristics. In this paper, we le...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
As the web grows larger, knowledge acquisition from the web has gained increasing attention. In this paper, we propose using web search clickthrough logs to learn semantic categor...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
This paper presents experiments which combine a grammar-driven and a datadriven parser. We show how the conversion of LFG output to dependency representation allows for a techniqu...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
In this paper we introduce a bilingual dictionary generating tool that does not use any large bilingual corpora. With this tool we implement our novel pivot based bilingual dictio...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
One of the basic problems of efficiently generating information-seeking dialogue in interactive question answering is to find the topic of an information-seeking question with res...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Automatic key phrase extraction is fundamental to the success of many recent digital library applications and semantic information retrieval techniques and a difficult and essenti...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
2009
This paper introduces the concepts of asking point and expected answer type as variations of the question focus. They are of particular importance for QA over semistructured data,...