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COLING
2008
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Homotopy-Based Semi-Supervised Hidden Markov Models for Sequence Labeling
This paper explores the use of the homotopy method for training a semi-supervised Hidden Markov Model (HMM) used for sequence labeling. We provide a novel polynomial-time algorith...
Gholamreza Haffari, Anoop Sarkar
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Coreference Systems Based on Kernels Methods
Various types of structural information e.g., about the type of constructions in which binding constraints apply, or about the structure of names - play a central role in corefere...
Yannick Versley, Alessandro Moschitti, Massimo Poe...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Using Syntactic Information for Improving Why-Question Answering
Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Topic Identification for Fine-Grained Opinion Analysis
Within the area of general-purpose finegrained subjectivity analysis, opinion topic identification has, to date, received little attention due to both the difficulty of the task a...
Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Using Hidden Markov Random Fields to Combine Distributional and Pattern-Based Word Clustering
Word clustering is a conventional and important NLP task, and the literature has suggested two kinds of approaches to this problem. One is based on the distributional similarity a...
Nobuhiro Kaji, Masaru Kitsuregawa
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Re-estimation of Lexical Parameters for Treebank PCFGs
We present procedures which pool lexical information estimated from unlabeled data via the Inside-Outside algorithm, with lexical information from a treebank PCFG. The procedures ...
Tejaswini Deoskar
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Applying Discourse Analysis and Data Mining Methods to Spoken OSCE Assessments
This paper looks at the transcribed data of patient-doctor consultations in an examination setting. The doctors are internationally qualified and enrolled in a bridging course as ...
Meladel Mistica, Timothy Baldwin, Marisa Cordella,...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Using Web-Search Results to Measure Word-Group Similarity
Semantic relatedness between words is important to many NLP tasks, and numerous measures exist which use a variety of resources. Thus far, such work is confined to measuring simil...
Ann Gledson, John Keane
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Investigating Statistical Techniques for Sentence-Level Event Classification
The ability to correctly classify sentences that describe events is an important task for many natural language applications such as Question Answering (QA) and Summarisation. In ...
Martina Naughton, Nicola Stokes, Joe Carthy