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LREC
2008
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Extracting Concrete Senses of Lexicon through Measurement of Conceptual Similarity in Ontologies
The measurement of conceptual similarity in a hierarchical structure has been proposed by studies such as Wu and Palmer (1994) which have been summarized and evaluated in Budanisk...
Siaw-Fong Chung, Laurent Prévot, Mingwei Xu...
LREC
2008
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Cost-Sensitive Learning in Answer Extraction
One problem of data-driven answer extraction in open-domain factoid question answering is that the class distribution of labeled training data is fairly imbalanced. This imbalance...
Michael Wiegand, Jochen L. Leidner, Dietrich Klako...
LREC
2008
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Condensing Sentences for Subtitle Generation
Text condensation aims at shortening the length of an utterance without losing essential textual information. In this paper, we report on the implementation and preliminary evalua...
Prokopis Prokopidis, Vassia Karra, Aggeliki Papagi...
LREC
2008
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Comparing Set-Covering Strategies for Optimal Corpus Design
This article is interested in the problem of the linguistic content of a speech corpus. Depending on the target task, the phonological and linguistic content of the corpus is cont...
Jonathan Chevelu, Nelly Barbot, Olivier Boëff...
LREC
2008
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Identifying Foreign Person Names in Chinese Text
Foreign name expressions written in Chinese characters are difficult to recognize since the sequence of characters represents the Chinese pronunciation of the name. This paper sug...
Stephan Busemann, Yajing Zhang
LREC
2008
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Vox Populi Annotation: Measuring Intensity of Ideological Perspectives by Aggregating Group Judgments
Polarizing discussions about political and social issues are common in mass media. Annotations on the degree to which a sentence expresses an ideological perspective can be valuab...
Wei-Hao Lin, Alexander G. Hauptmann
LREC
2008
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Tools for Collocation Extraction: Preferences for Active vs. Passive
We present and partially evaluate procedures for the extraction of noun+verb collocation candidates from German text corpora, along with their morphosyntactic preferences, especia...
Ulrich Heid, Marion Weller
LREC
2008
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Amazigh Language Terminology in Morocco or Management of a "Multidimensional" Variation
The present communication brings to the fore the work undertaken at IRCAM within CAL within the framework of the language planning of Amazigh, particularly on the side of terminol...
Aïcha Bouhjar
LREC
2008
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Error Analysis for Learning-based Coreference Resolution
State-of-the-art coreference resolution engines show similar performance figures (low sixties on the MUC-7 data). Our system with a rich linguistically motivated feature set yield...
Olga Uryupina
LREC
2008
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Clustering of Terms from Translation Dictionaries and Synonyms Lists to Automatically Build more Structured Linguistic Resources
Building a Linguistic Resource (LR) is a task requiring a huge quantitative of means, human resources and funds. Though finalization of the development phase and assessment of the...
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Armando Stellato