EMNLP
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
In this paper we address the issue of automatically assigning information status to discourse entities. Using an annotated corpus of conversational English and exploiting morpho-s...
EMNLP
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
We propose a general method for reranker construction which targets choosing the candidate with the least expected loss, rather than the most probable candidate. Different approac...
EMNLP
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
Integer Linear Programming has recently been used for decoding in a number of probabilistic models in order to enforce global constraints. However, in certain applications, such a...
EMNLP
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
This paper describes our attempt at NomBank-based automatic Semantic Role Labeling (SRL). NomBank is a project at New York University to annotate the argument structures for commo...
EMNLP
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
We propose a supervised, two-phase framework to address the problem of paraphrase recognition (PR). Unlike most PR systems that focus on sentence similarity, our framework detects...
EMNLP
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
For transliterating foreign words into Chinese, the pronunciation of a source word is spelled out with Kanji characters. Because Kanji comprises ideograms, an individual pronuncia...
EMNLP
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
Word clustering is important for automatic thesaurus construction, text classification, and word sense disambiguation. Recently, several studies have reported using the web as a c...
EMNLP
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
We investigate the problem of learning a part-of-speech (POS) lexicon for a resource-poor language, dialectal Arabic. Developing a high-quality lexicon is often the first step tow...
EMNLP
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006
Web extraction systems attempt to use the immense amount of unlabeled text in the Web in order to create large lists of entities and relations. Unlike traditional IE methods, the ...
EMNLP
2006
14 years 1 months ago
2006