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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions
We describe tree edit models for representing sequences of tree transformations involving complex reordering phenomena and demonstrate that they offer a simple, intuitive, and eff...
Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
An Unsupervised Aspect-Sentiment Model for Online Reviews
With the increase in popularity of online review sites comes a corresponding need for tools capable of extracting the information most important to the user from the plain text da...
Samuel Brody, Noemie Elhadad
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Information Content Measures of Semantic Similarity Perform Better Without Sense-Tagged Text
This paper presents an empirical comparison of similarity measures for pairs of concepts based on Information Content. It shows that using modest amounts of untagged text to deriv...
Ted Pedersen
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Language identification of names with SVMs
The task of identifying the language of text or utterances has a number of applications in natural language processing. Language identification has traditionally been approached w...
Aditya Bhargava, Grzegorz Kondrak
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Efficient Parsing of Well-Nested Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems
The use of well-nested linear context-free rewriting systems has been empirically motivated for modeling of the syntax of languages with discontinuous constituents or relatively f...
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Marco Kuhlma...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Model Combination for Machine Translation
Machine translation benefits from two types of decoding techniques: consensus decoding over multiple hypotheses under a single model and system combination over hypotheses from di...
John DeNero, Shankar Kumar, Ciprian Chelba, Franz ...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Time-Efficient Creation of an Accurate Sentence Fusion Corpus
Sentence fusion enables summarization and question-answering systems to produce output by combining fully formed phrases from different sentences. Yet there is little data that ca...
Kathleen McKeown, Sara Rosenthal, Kapil Thadani, C...
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Visual Information in Semantic Representation
The question of how meaning might be acquired by young children and represented by adult speakers of a language is one of the most debated topics in cognitive science. Existing se...
Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata
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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Dependency Tree-based Sentiment Classification using CRFs with Hidden Variables
In this paper, we present a dependency treebased method for sentiment classification of Japanese and English subjective sentences using conditional random fields with hidden varia...
Tetsuji Nakagawa, Kentaro Inui, Sadao Kurohashi
NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Some Empirical Evidence for Annotation Noise in a Benchmarked Dataset
A number of recent articles in computational linguistics venues called for a closer examination of the type of noise present in annotated datasets used for benchmarking (Reidsma a...
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Eyal Beigman