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EMNLP
2007
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Towards Robust Unsupervised Personal Name Disambiguation
The increasing use of large open-domain document sources is exacerbating the problem of ambiguity in named entities. This paper explores the use of a range of syntactic and semant...
Ying Chen, James Martin
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Diachronic Phonology
We present a probabilistic model of diachronic phonology in which individual word forms undergo stochastic edits along the branches of a phylogenetic tree. Our approach allows us ...
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Percy Liang,...
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Word Sense Disambiguation Using Topic Features
This paper presents a novel approach for exploiting the global context for the task of word sense disambiguation (WSD). This is done by using topic features constructed using the ...
Junfu Cai, Wee Sun Lee, Yee Whye Teh
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Online Learning of Relaxed CCG Grammars for Parsing to Logical Form
We consider the problem of learning to parse sentences to lambda-calculus representations of their underlying semantics and present an algorithm that learns a weighted combinatory...
Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Michael Collins
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Learning to Find English to Chinese Transliterations on the Web
We present a method for learning to find English to Chinese transliterations on the Web. In our approach, proper nouns are expanded into new queries aimed at maximizing the probab...
Jian-Cheng Wu, Jason S. Chang
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Using Semantic Roles to Improve Question Answering
Shallow semantic parsing, the automatic identification and labeling of sentential constituents, has recently received much attention. Our work examines whether semantic role info...
Dan Shen, Mirella Lapata
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Scalable Term Selection for Text Categorization
In text categorization, term selection is an important step for the sake of both categorization accuracy and computational efficiency. Different dimensionalities are expected und...
Jingyang Li, Maosong Sun
EMNLP
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Global Learning of Labeled Dependency Trees
Michael Schiehlen, Kristina Spranger