ACL
2010
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2010
Event extraction is a particularly challenging type of information extraction (IE). Most current event extraction systems rely on local information at the phrase or sentence level...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Tree-to-string systems (and their forestbased extensions) have gained steady popularity thanks to their simplicity and efficiency, but there is a major limitation: they are unable...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Automated summarization methods can be defined as "language-independent," if they are not based on any languagespecific knowledge. Such methods can be used for multiling...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Dominance links were introduced in grammars to model long distance scrambling phenomena, motivating the definition of multiset-valued linear indexed grammars (MLIGs) by Rambow (19...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Letter-phoneme alignment is usually generated by a straightforward application of the EM algorithm. We explore several alternative alignment methods that employ phonetics, integer...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Automatically identifying the polarity of words is a very important task in Natural Language Processing. It has applications in text classification, text filtering, analysis of pr...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
This paper proposes an approach to reference resolution in situated dialogues by exploiting extra-linguistic information. Recently, investigations of referential behaviours involv...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
Strictly Piecewise (SP) languages are a subclass of regular languages which encode certain kinds of long-distance dependencies that are found in natural languages. Like the classe...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
2010
This paper proposes a convolution forest kernel to effectively explore rich structured features embedded in a packed parse forest. As opposed to the convolution tree kernel, the p...