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COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Normalizing SMS: are Two Metaphors Better than One ?
Electronic written texts used in computermediated interactions (e-mails, blogs, chats, etc) present major deviations from the norm of the language. This paper presents an comparat...
Catherine Kobus, François Yvon, Géra...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Exploiting Constituent Dependencies for Tree Kernel-Based Semantic Relation Extraction
This paper proposes a new approach to dynamically determine the tree span for tree kernel-based semantic relation extraction. It exploits constituent dependencies to keep the node...
Longhua Qian, Guodong Zhou, Fang Kong, Qiaoming Zh...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Bayesian Semi-Supervised Chinese Word Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation
Words in Chinese text are not naturally separated by delimiters, which poses a challenge to standard machine translation (MT) systems. In MT, the widely used approach is to apply ...
Jia Xu, Jianfeng Gao, Kristina Toutanova, Hermann ...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Method for Automatic POS Guessing of Chinese Unknown Words
This paper proposes a method for automatic POS (part-of-speech) guessing of Chinese unknown words. It contains two models. The first model uses a machinelearning method to predict...
Likun Qiu, Changjian Hu, Kai Zhao
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Authorship Attribution and Verification with Many Authors and Limited Data
Most studies in statistical or machine learning based authorship attribution focus on two or a few authors. This leads to an overestimation of the importance of the features extra...
Kim Luyckx, Walter Daelemans
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
On Robustness and Domain Adaptation using SVD for Word Sense Disambiguation
In this paper we explore robustness and domain adaptation issues for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and unlabeled data. We focus on the s...
Eneko Agirre, Oier Lopez de Lacalle
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Emotion Classification Using Massive Examples Extracted from the Web
In this paper, we propose a data-oriented method for inferring the emotion of a speaker conversing with a dialog system from the semantic content of an utterance. We first fully a...
Ryoko Tokhisa, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Mind the Gap: Dangers of Divorcing Evaluations of Summary Content from Linguistic Quality
In this paper, we analyze the state of current human and automatic evaluation of topic-focused summarization in the Document Understanding Conference main task for 2005-2007. The ...
John M. Conroy, Hoa Trang Dang