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ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Identifying Generic Noun Phrases
This paper presents a supervised approach for identifying generic noun phrases in context. Generic statements express rulelike knowledge about kinds or events. Therefore, their id...
Nils Reiter, Anette Frank
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Accurate Context-Free Parsing with Combinatory Categorial Grammar
The definition of combinatory categorial grammar (CCG) in the literature varies quite a bit from author to author. However, the differences between the definitions are important i...
Timothy A. D. Fowler, Gerald Penn
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Models of Metaphor in NLP
Automatic processing of metaphor can be clearly divided into two subtasks: metaphor recognition (distinguishing between literal and metaphorical language in a text) and metaphor i...
Ekaterina Shutova
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
PCFGs, Topic Models, Adaptor Grammars and Learning Topical Collocations and the Structure of Proper Names
This paper establishes a connection between two apparently very different kinds of probabilistic models. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) models are used as "topic models&qu...
Mark Johnson
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Starting from Scratch in Semantic Role Labeling
A fundamental step in sentence comprehension involves assigning semantic roles to sentence constituents. To accomplish this, the listener must parse the sentence, find constituent...
Michael Connor, Yael Gertner, Cynthia Fisher, Dan ...
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Generating Fine-Grained Reviews of Songs from Album Reviews
Music Recommendation Systems often recommend individual songs, as opposed to entire albums. The challenge is to generate reviews for each song, since only full album reviews are a...
Swati Tata, Barbara Di Eugenio
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Rational Model of Eye Movement Control in Reading
A number of results in the study of realtime sentence comprehension have been explained by computational models as resulting from the rational use of probabilistic linguistic info...
Klinton Bicknell, Roger Levy
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Learning to Adapt to Unknown Users: Referring Expression Generation in Spoken Dialogue Systems
We present a data-driven approach to learn user-adaptive referring expression generation (REG) policies for spoken dialogue systems. Referring expressions can be difficult to unde...
Srinivasan Janarthanam, Oliver Lemon
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Sentiment Learning on Product Reviews via Sentiment Ontology Tree
Existing works on sentiment analysis on product reviews suffer from the following limitations: (1) The knowledge of hierarchical relationships of products attributes is not fully ...
Wei Wei, Jon Atle Gulla