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COLING
2008
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Discourse Level Opinion Interpretation
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...
Swapna Somasundaran, Janyce Wiebe, Josef Ruppenhof...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Syntactic Reordering Integrated with Phrase-Based SMT
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...
Jakob Elming
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Local Alignment Kernel in the Context of NLP
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...
Sophia Katrenko, Pieter W. Adriaans
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Using Discourse Commitments to Recognize Textual Entailment
In this paper, we introduce a new framework for recognizing textual entailment (RTE) which depends on extraction of the set of publicly-held beliefs
Andrew Hickl
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Computer Aided Correction and Extension of a Syntactic Wide-Coverage Lexicon
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...
Lionel Nicolas, Benoît Sagot, Miguel A. Moli...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
PNR2: Ranking Sentences with Positive and Negative Reinforcement for Query-Oriented Update Summarization
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...
Wenjie Li, Furu Wei, Qin Lu, Yanxiang He
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Anomalies in the WordNet Verb Hierarchy
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...
Tom Richens
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Looking for Trouble
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...
Stijn De Saeger, Kentaro Torisawa, Jun'ichi Kazama
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Uniform Approach to Analogies, Synonyms, Antonyms, and Associations
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...
Peter D. Turney
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Sentence Compression Beyond Word Deletion
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...
Trevor Cohn, Mirella Lapata