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EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Weakly-Supervised Acquisition of Labeled Class Instances using Graph Random Walks
We present a graph-based semi-supervised label propagation algorithm for acquiring opendomain labeled classes and their instances from a combination of unstructured and structured...
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Joseph Reisinger, Marius P...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Jointly Combining Implicit Constraints Improves Temporal Ordering
Previous work on ordering events in text has typically focused on local pairwise decisions, ignoring globally inconsistent labels. However, temporal ordering is the type of domain...
Nathanael Chambers, Daniel Jurafsky
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Japanese Predicate Argument Structure Analysis using Decision Lists
This paper describes a new automatic method for Japanese predicate argument structure analysis. The method learns relevant features to assign case roles to the argument of the tar...
Hirotoshi Taira, Sanae Fujita, Masaaki Nagata
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context
We address the task of computing vector space representations for the meaning of word occurrences, which can vary widely according to context. This task is a crucial step towards ...
Katrin Erk, Sebastian Padó
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
The Linguistic Structure of English Web-Search Queries
Web-search queries are known to be short, but little else is known about their structure. In this paper we investigate the applicability of part-of-speech tagging to typical Engli...
Cory Barr, Rosie Jones, Moira Regelson
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Learning the Scope of Negation in Biomedical Texts
Roser Morante, Anthony M. L. Liekens, Walter Daele...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Who is Who and What is What: Experiments in Cross-Document Co-Reference
This paper describes a language-independent, scalable system for both challenges of crossdocument co-reference: name variation and entity disambiguation. We provide system results...
Alex Baron, Marjorie Freedman
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Cross-Task Knowledge-Constrained Self Training
We present an algorithmic framework for learning multiple related tasks. Our framework exploits a form of prior knowledge that relates the output spaces of these tasks. We present...
Hal Daumé III
EMNLP
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Revisiting Readability: A Unified Framework for Predicting Text Quality
We combine lexical, syntactic, and discourse features to produce a highly predictive model of human readers' judgments of text readability. This is the first study to take in...
Emily Pitler, Ani Nenkova