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NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Question Answering Using Integrated Information Retrieval and Information Extraction
This paper addresses the task of providing extended responses to questions regarding specialized topics. This task is an amalgam of information retrieval, topical summarization, a...
Barry Schiffman, Kathleen McKeown, Ralph Grishman,...
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Coreference or Not: A Twin Model for Coreference Resolution
A twin-model is proposed for coreference resolution: a link component, modeling the coreferential relationship between an anaphor and a candidate antecedent, and a creation compon...
Xiaoqiang Luo
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Joint Determination of Anaphoricity and Coreference Resolution using Integer Programming
Standard pairwise coreference resolution systems are subject to errors resulting from their performing anaphora identification as an implicit part of coreference resolution. In t...
Pascal Denis, Jason Baldridge
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Can Semantic Roles Generalize Across Genres?
PropBank has been widely used as training data for Semantic Role Labeling. However, because this training data is taken from the WSJ, the resulting machine learning models tend to...
Szu-ting Yi, Edward Loper, Martha Palmer
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Probabilistic Generation of Weather Forecast Texts
This paper reports experiments in which pCRU — a generation framework that combines probabilistic generation methodology with a comprehensive model of the generation space — i...
Anja Belz
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Incremental Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
An open issue in data-driven dependency parsing is how to handle non-projective dependencies, which seem to be required by linguistically adequate representations, but which pose ...
Joakim Nivre
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
First-Order Probabilistic Models for Coreference Resolution
Traditional noun phrase coreference resolution systems represent features only of pairs of noun phrases. In this paper, we propose a machine learning method that enables features ...
Aron Culotta, Michael L. Wick, Andrew McCallum
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A Comparison of Pivot Methods for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation
We compare two pivot strategies for phrase-based statistical machine translation (SMT), namely phrase translation and sentence translation. The phrase translation strategy means t...
Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Near-Synonym Choice in an Intelligent Thesaurus
An intelligent thesaurus assists a writer with alternative choices of words and orders them by their suitability in the writing context. In this paper we focus on methods for auto...
Diana Zaiu Inkpen
NAACL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Combining Lexical and Grammatical Features to Improve Readability Measures for First and Second Language Texts
This work evaluates a system that uses interpolated predictions of reading difficulty that are based on both vocabulary and grammatical features. The combined approach is compared...
Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Cal...