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COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Self-Annotation for fine-grained geospatial relation extraction
A great deal of information on the Web is represented in both textual and structured form. The structured form is machinereadable and can be used to augment the textual data. We c...
André Blessing, Hinrich Schütze
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Unsupervised Synthesis of Multilingual Wikipedia Articles
In this paper, we propose an unsupervised approach to automatically synthesize Wikipedia articles in multiple languages. Taking an existing high-quality version of any entry as co...
Yuncong Chen, Pascale Fung
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Learning the Scope of Negation via Shallow Semantic Parsing
In this paper we present a simplified shallow semantic parsing approach to learning the scope of negation (SoN). This is done by formulating it as a shallow semantic parsing probl...
Junhui Li, Guodong Zhou, Hongling Wang, Qiaoming Z...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Paraphrase Alignment for Synonym Evidence Discovery
We describe a new unsupervised approach for synonymy discovery by aligning paraphrases in monolingual domain corpora. For that purpose, we identify phrasal terms that convey most ...
Gintare Grigonyte, João Cordeiro, Gaël...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Joint Tokenization and Translation
As tokenization is usually ambiguous for many natural languages such as Chinese and Korean, tokenization errors might potentially introduce translation mistakes for translation sy...
Xinyan Xiao, Yang Liu, Young-Sook Hwang, Qun Liu, ...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Enhancing Morphological Alignment for Translating Highly Inflected Languages
We propose an unsupervised approach utilizing only raw corpora to enhance morphological alignment involving highly inflected languages. Our method focuses on closed-class morpheme...
Minh-Thang Luong, Min-Yen Kan
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
FactRank: Random Walks on a Web of Facts
Fact collections are mostly built using semi-supervised relation extraction techniques and wisdom of the crowds methods, rendering them inherently noisy. In this paper, we propose...
Alpa Jain, Patrick Pantel
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Recognising Entailment within Discourse
Texts are commonly interpreted based on the entire discourse in which they are situated. Discourse processing has been shown useful for inference-based application; yet, most syst...
Shachar Mirkin, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan, Eyal S...
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Automated Translation of Semantic Relationships
We present a method for translating semantic relationships between languages where relationships are defined as pattern clusters. Given a pattern set which represents a semantic r...
Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport
COLING
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Dependency-driven Anaphoricity Determination for Coreference Resolution
This paper proposes a dependency-driven scheme to dynamically determine the syntactic parse tree structure for tree kernel-based anaphoricity determination in coreference resoluti...
Fang Kong, Guodong Zhou, Longhua Qian, Qiaoming Zh...