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ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Detecting Compositionality in Multi-Word Expressions
Identifying whether a multi-word expression (MWE) is compositional or not is important for numerous NLP applications. Sense induction can partition the context of MWEs into semant...
Ioannis Korkontzelos, Suresh Manandhar
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Updating a Name Tagger Using Contemporary Unlabeled Data
For many NLP tasks, including named entity tagging, semi-supervised learning has been proposed as a reasonable alternative to methods that require annotating large amounts of trai...
Cristina Mota, Ralph Grishman
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Predicting Unknown Time Arguments based on Cross-Event Propagation
Many events in news articles don't include time arguments. This paper describes two methods, one based on rules and the other based on statistical learning, to predict the un...
Prashant Gupta, Heng Ji
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Correlating Human and Automatic Evaluation of a German Surface Realiser
We examine correlations between native speaker judgements on automatically generated German text against automatic evaluation metrics. We look at a number of metrics from the MT a...
Aoife Cahill
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Opinion and Generic Question Answering Systems: a Performance Analysis
The importance of the new textual genres such as blogs or forum entries is growing in parallel with the evolution of the Social Web. This paper presents two corpora of blog posts ...
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés M...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Markov Random Topic Fields
Most approaches to topic modeling assume an independence between documents that is frequently violated. We present an topic model that makes use of one or more user-specified grap...
Hal Daume III
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Syntactic and Lexical-Based Discourse Segmenter
We present a syntactic and lexically based discourse segmenter (SLSeg) that is designed to avoid the common problem of over-segmenting text. Segmentation is the first step in a di...
Milan Tofiloski, Julian Brooke, Maite Taboada
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Mining Association Language Patterns for Negative Life Event Classification
Negative life events, such as death of a family member, argument with a spouse and loss of a job, play an important role in triggering depressive episodes. Therefore, it is worth ...
Liang-Chih Yu, Chien-Lung Chan, Chung-Hsien Wu, Ch...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
Leveraging Structural Relations for Fluent Compressions at Multiple Compression Rates
Prior approaches to sentence compression have taken low level syntactic constraints into account in order to maintain grammaticality. We propose and successfully evaluate a more c...
Sourish Chaudhuri, Naman K. Gupta, Noah A. Smith, ...
ACL
2009
13 years 5 months ago
A Rose is a Roos is a Ruusu: Querying Translations for Web Image Search
We query Web Image search engines with words (e.g., spring) but need images that correspond to particular senses of the word (e.g., flexible coil). Querying with polysemous words ...
Janara Christensen, Mausam, Oren Etzioni