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LREC
2008
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Producing an Encyclopedic Dictionary using Patent Documents
Although the World Wide Web has of late become an important source to consult for the meaning of words, a number of technical terms related to high technology are not found on the...
Atsushi Fujii
LREC
2008
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Parameters for Topic Boundary Detection in Multi-Party Dialogues
We present a topic boundary detection method that searches for connections between sequences of utterances in multi party dialogues. The connections are established based on word ...
Margot Mieskes, Michael Strube
LREC
2008
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A Framework for Identity Resolution and Merging for Multi-source Information Extraction
In the context of ontology-based information extraction, identity resolution is the process of deciding whether an instance extracted from text refers to a known entity in the tar...
Milena Yankova, Horacio Saggion, Hamish Cunningham
LREC
2008
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Local Methods for On-Demand Out-of-Vocabulary Word Retrieval
Most of the Web-based methods for lexicon augmenting consist in capturing global semantic features of the targeted domain in order to collect relevant documents from the Web. We s...
Stanislas Oger, Georges Linares, Fréd&eacut...
LREC
2008
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Building a Golden Collection of Parallel Multi-Language Word Alignment
This paper reports an experience on producing manual word alignments over six different language pairs (all combinations between Portuguese, English, French and Spanish) (Grac
Joao Graça, Joana Paulo Pardal, Luís...
LREC
2008
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Projecting Propbank Roles onto the CCGbank
This paper describes a method of accurately projecting Propbank roles onto constituents in the CCGbank with near perfect accuracy and automatically annotating verbal categories wi...
Stephen A. Boxwell, Michael White
LREC
2008
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Using Reordering in Statistical Machine Translation based on Alignment Block Classification
Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) is based on alignment models which learn from bilingual corpora the word correspondences between source and target language. These models are...
Marta R. Costa-Jussà, José A. R. Fon...
LREC
2008
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Building a Corpus of Temporal-Causal Structure
While recent corpus annotation efforts cover a wide variety of semantic structures, work on temporal and causal relations is still in its early stages. Annotation efforts have typ...
Steven Bethard, William Corvey, Sara Klingenstein,...
LREC
2008
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System Evaluation on a Named Entity Corpus from Clinical Notes
This paper presents the evaluation of the dictionary look-up component of Mayo Clinic's Information Extraction system. The component was tested on a corpus of 160 free-text c...
Karin Schuler, Vinod Kaggal, James J. Masanz, Phil...
LREC
2008
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Pragmatic Annotation of Discourse Markers in a Multilingual Parallel Corpus (Arabic- Spanish-English)
Discourse structure and coherence relations are one of the main inferential challenges addressed by computational pragmatics. The present study focuses on discourse markers as key...
Doaa Samy, Ana González-Ledesma