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ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Tokenization: Returning to a Long Solved Problem - A Survey, Contrastive Experiment, Recommendations, and Toolkit -
We examine some of the frequently disregarded subtleties of tokenization in Penn Treebank style, and present a new rule-based preprocessing toolkit that not only reproduces the Tr...
Rebecca Dridan, Stephan Oepen
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
How Are Spelling Errors Generated and Corrected? A Study of Corrected and Uncorrected Spelling Errors Using Keystroke Logs
This paper presents a comparative study of spelling errors that are corrected as you type, vs. those that remain uncorrected. First, we generate naturally occurring online error c...
Yukino Baba, Hisami Suzuki
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Crowdsourcing Inference-Rule Evaluation
The importance of inference rules to semantic applications has long been recognized and extensive work has been carried out to automatically acquire inference-rule resources. Howe...
Naomi Zeichner, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Learning to Temporally Order Medical Events in Clinical Text
We investigate the problem of ordering medical events in unstructured clinical narratives by learning to rank them based on their time of occurrence. We represent each medical eve...
Preethi Raghavan, Albert M. Lai, Eric Fosler-Lussi...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Humor as Circuits in Semantic Networks
This work presents a first step to a general implementation of the Semantic-Script Theory of Humor (SSTH). Of the scarce amount of research in computational humor, no research ha...
Igor Labutov, Hod Lipson
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Beefmoves: Dissemination, Diversity, and Dynamics of English Borrowings in a German Hip Hop Forum
We investigate how novel English-derived words (anglicisms) are used in a Germanlanguage Internet hip hop forum, and what factors contribute to their uptake.
Matt Garley, Julia Hockenmaier
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Private Access to Phrase Tables for Statistical Machine Translation
Some Statistical Machine Translation systems never see the light because the owner of the appropriate training data cannot release them, and the potential user of the system canno...
Nicola Cancedda
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Self-Disclosure and Relationship Strength in Twitter Conversations
In social psychology, it is generally accepted that one discloses more of his/her personal information to someone in a strong relationship. We present a computational framework fo...
JinYeong Bak, Suin Kim, Alice H. Oh
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Cross-Domain Co-Extraction of Sentiment and Topic Lexicons
Extracting sentiment and topic lexicons is important for opinion mining. Previous works have showed that supervised learning methods are superior for this task. However, the perfo...
Fangtao Li, Sinno Jialin Pan, Ou Jin, Qiang Yang, ...
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Assessing the Effect of Inconsistent Assessors on Summarization Evaluation
We investigate the consistency of human assessors involved in summarization evaluation to understand its effect on system ranking and automatic evaluation techniques. Using Text A...
Karolina Owczarzak, Peter A. Rankel, Hoa Trang Dan...