COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
This paper elaborates a model for representing semantic calendar expressions (SCEs), which correspond to the intensional meanings of natural-language calendar phrases. The model u...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
This paper studies the role of base-NP information in dependency parsing for Thai. The baseline performance reveals that the base-NP chunking task for Thai is much more difficult ...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
It is shown how weighted context-free grammars can be used to recognize languages beyond their weak generative capacity by a one-step constant time extension of standard recogniti...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
This work presents the development of a system that detects incorrect uses of complex postpositions in Basque, an agglutinative language. Error detection in complex postpositions ...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
In this paper we propose a new distance function (rank distance) designed to reflect stylistic similarity between texts. To assess the ability of this distance measure to capture ...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Treating classification as seeking minimum cuts in the appropriate graph has proven effective in a number of applications. The power of this approach lies in its ability to incorp...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in analogical learning for NLP applications. If the principle of analogical learning is quite simple, it does involve complex steps ...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
We present a corpus study of local discourse relations based on the Penn Discourse Tree Bank, a large manually annotated corpus of explicitly or implicitly realized relations. We ...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
We propose a supervised word sense disambiguation (WSD) method using tree-structured conditional random fields (TCRFs). By applying TCRFs to a sentence described as a dependency t...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
2008
We present Likey, a language-independent keyphrase extraction method based on statistical analysis and the use of a reference corpus. Likey has a very light-weight preprocessing p...