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COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Linguistic Knowledge Discovery Tool: Very Large Ngram Database Search with Arbitrary Wildcards
In this paper, we will describe a search tool for a huge set of ngrams. The tool supports queries with an arbitrary number of wildcards. It takes a fraction of a second for a sear...
Satoshi Sekine
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Metaphor in Textual Entailment
Metaphor understanding in Computational Linguistics has largely been focused on the development of stand-alone prototypes for which only small-scale evaluations are carried out. T...
Rodrigo Agerri
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Complete and Modestly Funny System for Generating and Performing Japanese Stand-Up Comedy
We present a complete system that generates Japanese stand-up comedy. Different modules generating different types of jokes are tied together into a performance where all jokes ar...
Jonas Sjöbergh, Kenji Araki
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Exact Inference for Multi-label Classification using Sparse Graphical Models
This paper describes a parameter estimation method for multi-label classification that does not rely on approximate inference. It is known that multi-label classification involvin...
Yusuke Miyao, Jun-ichi Tsujii
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Modelling Multilinguality in Ontologies
Multilinguality in ontologies has become an impending need for institutions worldwide with valuable linguistic resources in different natural languages. Since most ontologies are ...
Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Guadalupe Aguado de Cea, As...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Distilling Opinion in Discourse: A Preliminary Study
In this paper, we describe a preliminary study for a discourse based opinion categorization and propose a new annotation schema for a deep contextual opinion analysis using discou...
Nicholas Asher, Farah Benamara, Yvette Yannick Mat...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
On "Redundancy" in Selecting Attributes for Generating Referring Expressions
Philipp Spanger, Takehiro Kurosawa, Takenobu Tokun...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Bayes Risk-based Dialogue Management for Document Retrieval System with Speech Interface
We propose an efficient dialogue management for an information navigation system based on a document knowledge base with a spoken dialogue interface. In order to perform robustly ...
Teruhisa Misu, Tatsuya Kawahara
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Robust and Efficient Chinese Word Dependency Analysis with Linear Kernel Support Vector Machines
Data-driven learning based on shift reduce parsing algorithms has emerged dependency parsing and shown excellent performance to many Treebanks. In this paper, we investigate the e...
Yu-Chieh Wu, Jie-Chi Yang, Yue-Shi Lee
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
The Impact of Reference Quality on Automatic MT Evaluation
Language resource quality is crucial in NLP. Many of the resources used are derived from data created by human beings out of an NLP context, especially regarding MT and reference ...
Olivier Hamon, Djamel Mostefa