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ACL
2007
13 years 10 months ago
SVM Model Tampering and Anchored Learning: A Case Study in Hebrew NP Chunking
We study the issue of porting a known NLP method to a language with little existing NLP resources, specifically Hebrew SVM-based chunking. We introduce two SVM-based methods – ...
Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad
ACL
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Language Dynamics and Capitalization using Maximum Entropy
This paper studies the impact of written language variations and the way it affects the capitalization task over time. A discriminative approach, based on maximum entropy models, ...
Fernando Batista, Nuno J. Mamede, Isabel Trancoso
ACL
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Classifying Temporal Relations Between Events
This paper describes a fully automatic twostage machine learning architecture that learns temporal relations between pairs of events. The first stage learns the temporal attribut...
Nathanael Chambers, Shan Wang, Daniel Jurafsky
ACL
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Learning Semantic Links from a Corpus of Parallel Temporal and Causal Relations
Finding temporal and causal relations is crucial to understanding the semantic structure of a text. Since existing corpora provide no parallel temporal and causal annotations, we ...
Steven Bethard, James H. Martin
ACL
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Sparse Information Extraction: Unsupervised Language Models to the Rescue
Even in a massive corpus such as the Web, a substantial fraction of extractions appear infrequently. This paper shows how to assess the correctness of sparse extractions by utiliz...
Doug Downey, Stefan Schoenmackers, Oren Etzioni
ACL
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Extractive Summaries for Educational Science Content
This paper describes an extractive summarizer for educational science content called COGENT. COGENT extends MEAD based on strategies elicited from an empirical study with domain a...
Sebastian de la Chica, Faisal Ahmad, James H. Mart...
ACL
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Assisting Translators in Indirect Lexical Transfer
We present the design and evaluation of a translator’s amenuensis that uses comparable corpora to propose and rank nonliteral solutions to the translation of expressions from th...
Bogdan Babych, Anthony Hartley, Serge Sharoff, Olg...
ACL
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Using Automatically Transcribed Dialogs to Learn User Models in a Spoken Dialog System
We use an EM algorithm to learn user models in a spoken dialog system. Our method requires automatically transcribed (with ASR) dialog corpora, plus a model of transcription error...
Umar Syed, Jason Williams
ACL
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Domain Adaptation with Active Learning for Word Sense Disambiguation
When a word sense disambiguation (WSD) system is trained on one domain but applied to a different domain, a drop in accuracy is frequently observed. This highlights the importance...
Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng
ACL
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Lyric-based Song Sentiment Classification with Sentiment Vector Space Model
Yunqing Xia, Linlin Wang, Kam-Fai Wong, Mingxing X...