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EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
K-Best Combination of Syntactic Parsers
In this paper, we propose a linear model-based general framework to combine k-best parse outputs from multiple parsers. The proposed framework leverages on the strengths of previo...
Hui Zhang, Min Zhang, Chew Lim Tan, Haizhou Li
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Collocation Extraction Using Monolingual Word Alignment Method
Statistical bilingual word alignment has been well studied in the context of machine translation. This paper adapts the bilingual word alignment algorithm to monolingual scenario ...
Zhan-yi Liu, Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Sheng Li
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Detecting Speculations and their Scopes in Scientific Text
Distinguishing speculative statements from factual ones is important for most biomedical text mining applications. We introduce an approach which is based on solving two sub-probl...
Arzucan Özgür, Dragomir R. Radev
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Gazpacho and summer rash: lexical relationships from temporal patterns of web search queries
In this paper we investigate temporal patterns of web search queries. We carry out several evaluations to analyze the properties of temporal profiles of queries, revealing promisi...
Enrique Alfonseca, Massimiliano Ciaramita, Keith H...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Geo-mining: Discovery of Road and Transport Networks Using Directional Patterns
One of the most desired information types when planning a trip to some place is the knowledge of transport, roads and geographical connectedness of prominent sites in this place. ...
Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Parser Adaptation and Projection with Quasi-Synchronous Grammar Features
We connect two scenarios in structured learning: adapting a parser trained on one corpus to another annotation style, and projecting syntactic annotations from one language to ano...
David A. Smith, Jason Eisner
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Classifying Relations for Biomedical Named Entity Disambiguation
Named entity disambiguation concerns linking a potentially ambiguous mention of named entity in text to an unambiguous identifier in a standard database. One approach to this task...
Xinglong Wang, Jun-ichi Tsujii, Sophia Ananiadou
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Chinese Novelty Mining
Automated mining of novel documents or sentences from chronologically ordered documents or sentences is an open challenge in text mining. In this paper, we describe the preprocess...
Yi Zhang, Flora S. Tsai
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Graded Word Sense Assignment
Word sense disambiguation is typically phrased as the task of labeling a word in context with the best-fitting sense from a sense inventory such as WordNet. While questions have o...
Katrin Erk, Diana McCarthy
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Latent Document Re-Ranking
Dong Zhou, Vincent Wade