COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This work proposes opinion frames as a representation of discourse-level associations which arise from related opinion topics. We illustrate how opinion frames help gather more in...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
We present a novel approach to word reordering which successfully integrates syntactic structural knowledge with phrase-based SMT. This is done by constructing a lattice of altern...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This paper discusses local alignment kernels in the context of the relation extraction task. We define a local alignment kernel based on the Smith-Waterman measure as a sequence s...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
In this paper, we introduce a new framework for recognizing textual entailment (RTE) which depends on extraction of the set of publicly-held beliefs
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
The effectiveness of parsers based on manually created resources, namely a grammar and a lexicon, rely mostly on the quality of these resources. Thus, increasing the parser covera...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Query-oriented update summarization is an emerging summarization task very recently. It brings new challenges to the sentence ranking algorithms that require not only to locate th...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
The WordNet verb hierarchy is tested, with a view to improving the performance of its applications, revealing topological anomalies and casting doubt on its semantic categories. E...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
This paper presents a method for mining potential troubles or obstacles related to the use of a given object. Some example instances of this relation are medicine, side effect and...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
Recognizing analogies, synonyms, antonyms, and associations appear to be four distinct tasks, requiring distinct NLP algorithms. In the past, the four tasks have been treated inde...
COLING
2008
14 years 1 months ago
2008
In this paper we generalise the sentence compression task. Rather than simply shorten a sentence by deleting words or constituents, as in previous work, we rewrite it using additi...