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COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Classifying Chart Cells for Quadratic Complexity Context-Free Inference
In this paper, we consider classifying word positions by whether or not they can either start or end multi-word constituents. This provides a mechanism for "closing" cha...
Brian Roark, Kristy Hollingshead
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Instance-Based Ontology Population Exploiting Named-Entity Substitution
We present an approach to ontology population based on a lexical substitution technique. It consists in estimating the plausibility of sentences where the named entity to be class...
Claudio Giuliano, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Concept-Centered Approach to Noun-Compound Interpretation
A noun-compound is a compressed proposition that requires an audience to recover the implicit relationship between two concepts that are expressed as nouns. Listeners recover this...
Cristina Butnariu, Tony Veale
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Good Neighbors Make Good Senses: Exploiting Distributional Similarity for Unsupervised WSD
We present an automatic method for senselabeling of text in an unsupervised manner. The method makes use of distributionally similar words to derive an automatically labeled train...
Samuel Brody, Mirella Lapata
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Modeling the Structure and Dynamics of the Consonant Inventories: A Complex Network Approach
We study the self-organization of the consonant inventories through a complex network approach. We observe that the distribution of occurrence as well as cooccurrence of the conso...
Animesh Mukherjee, Monojit Choudhury, Anupam Basu,...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Classifying What-Type Questions by Head Noun Tagging
Classifying what-type questions into proper semantic categories is found more challenging than classifying other types in question answering systems. In this paper, we propose to ...
Fangtao Li, Xian Zhang, Jinhui Yuan, Xiaoyan Zhu
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
The Effect of Syntactic Representation on Semantic Role Labeling
Almost all automatic semantic role labeling (SRL) systems rely on a preliminary parsing step that derives a syntactic structure from the sentence being analyzed. This makes the ch...
Richard Johansson, Pierre Nugues
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Alignments for Better Confusion Networks for Combining Machine Translation Systems
The state-of-the-art system combination method for machine translation (MT) is the word-based combination using confusion networks. One of the crucial steps in confusion network d...
Necip Fazil Ayan, Jing Zheng, Wen Wang
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Learning Entailment Rules for Unary Templates
Most work on unsupervised entailment rule acquisition focused on rules between templates with two variables, ignoring unary rules - entailment rules between templates with a singl...
Idan Szpektor, Ido Dagan
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Linguistically-Based Sub-Sentential Alignment for Terminology Extraction from a Bilingual Automotive Corpus
We present a sub-sentential alignment system that links linguistically motivated phrases in parallel texts based on lexical correspondences and syntactic similarity. We compare th...
Lieve Macken, Els Lefever, Véronique Hoste