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ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Parsing Speech Repair without Specialized Grammar Symbols
This paper describes a parsing model for speech with repairs that makes a clear separation between linguistically meaningful symbols in the grammar and operations specific to spee...
Tim Miller, Luan Nguyen, William Schuler
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Query-Focused Summaries or Query-Biased Summaries?
In the context of the Document Understanding Conferences, the task of Query-Focused Multi-Document Summarization is intended to improve agreement in content among humangenerated m...
Rahul Katragadda, Vasudeva Varma
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Do Automatic Annotation Techniques Have Any Impact on Supervised Complex Question Answering?
In this paper, we analyze the impact of different automatic annotation methods on the performance of supervised approaches to the complex question answering problem (defined in th...
Yllias Chali, Sadid A. Hasan, Shafiq R. Joty
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Variational Inference for Grammar Induction with Prior Knowledge
Variational EM has become a popular technique in probabilistic NLP with hidden variables. Commonly, for computational tractability, we make strong independence assumptions, such a...
Shay B. Cohen, Noah A. Smith
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Generalizing Dependency Features for Opinion Mining
We explore how features based on syntactic dependency relations can be utilized to improve performance on opinion mining. Using a transformation of dependency relation triples, we...
Mahesh Joshi, Carolyn Penstein Rosé
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Modeling Morphologically Rich Languages Using Split Words and Unstructured Dependencies
We experiment with splitting words into their stem and suffix components for modeling morphologically rich languages. We show that using a morphological analyzer and disambiguator...
Deniz Yuret, Ergun Biçici
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language
In this paper, we present initial experiments in the recognition of deceptive language. We introduce three data sets of true and lying texts collected for this purpose, and we sho...
Rada Mihalcea, Carlo Strapparava
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Hidden Markov Tree Model in Dependency-based Machine Translation
We would like to draw attention to Hidden Markov Tree Models (HMTM), which are to our knowledge still unexploited in the field of Computational Linguistics, in spite of highly suc...
Zdenek Zabokrtský, Martin Popel