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EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Ranking Reader Emotions Using Pairwise Loss Minimization and Emotional Distribution Regression
This paper presents two approaches to ranking reader emotions of documents. Past studies assign a document to a single emotion category, so their methods cannot be applied directl...
Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations
In this paper, we present an algorithm for learning a generative model of natural language sentences together with their formal meaning representations with hierarchical structure...
Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee, Luke S. Zettlemo...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
HTM: A Topic Model for Hypertexts
Previously topic models such as PLSI (Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing) and LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) were developed for modeling the contents of plain texts. Recent...
Congkai Sun, Bin Gao, Zhenfu Cao, Hang Li
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Adapting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to Contrasting Domains
Most state-of-the-art wide-coverage parsers are trained on newspaper text and suffer a loss of accuracy in other domains, making parser adaptation a pressing issue. In this paper ...
Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Inference of the Temporal Location of Situations in Chinese Text
Chinese is a language that does not have morphological tense markers that provide explicit grammaticalization of the temporal location of situations (events or states). However, i...
Nianwen Xue
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Computing Word-Pair Antonymy
Knowing the degree of antonymy between words has widespread applications in natural language processing. Manually-created lexicons have limited coverage and do not include most se...
Saif Mohammad, Bonnie J. Dorr, Graeme Hirst
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Relative Rank Statistics for Dialog Analysis
We introduce the relative rank differential statistic which is a non-parametric approach to document and dialog analysis based on word frequency rank-statistics. We also present a...
Juan Huerta
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Using Bilingual Knowledge and Ensemble Techniques for Unsupervised Chinese Sentiment Analysis
It is a challenging task to identify sentiment polarity of Chinese reviews because the resources for Chinese sentiment analysis are limited. Instead of leveraging only monolingual...
Xiaojun Wan
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Unsupervised Multilingual Learning for POS Tagging
We demonstrate the effectiveness of multilingual learning for unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. The key hypothesis of multilingual learning is that by combining cues from multi...
Benjamin Snyder, Tahira Naseem, Jacob Eisenstein, ...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Simple and Effective Hierarchical Phrase Reordering Model
While phrase-based statistical machine translation systems currently deliver state-of-theart performance, they remain weak on word order changes. Current phrase reordering models ...
Michel Galley, Christopher D. Manning