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AAAI
2012
12 years 2 months ago
A Testbed for Learning by Demonstration from Natural Language and RGB-Depth Video
We are developing a testbed for learning by demonstration combining spoken language and sensor data in a natural real-world environment. Microsoft Kinect RGBDepth cameras allow us...
Young Chol Song, Henry A. Kautz
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Decoding Running Key Ciphers
There has been recent interest in the problem of decoding letter substitution ciphers using techniques inspired by natural language processing. We consider a different type of cla...
Sravana Reddy, Kevin Knight
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
A Computational Approach to the Automation of Creative Naming
In this paper, we propose a computational approach to generate neologisms consisting of homophonic puns and metaphors based on the category of the service to be named and the prop...
Gözde Özbal, Carlo Strapparava
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
String Re-writing Kernel
Learning for sentence re-writing is a fundamental task in natural language processing and information retrieval. In this paper, we propose a new class of kernel functions, referre...
Fan Bu, Hang Li, Xiaoyan Zhu
ACL
2012
12 years 2 months ago
A Comparison of Chinese Parsers for Stanford Dependencies
Stanford dependencies are widely used in natural language processing as a semanticallyoriented representation, commonly generated either by (i) converting the output of a constitu...
Wanxiang Che, Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Ting Liu
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 2 months ago
Building reputation and trust using federated search and opinion mining
The term online reputation addresses trust relationships amongst agents in dynamic open systems. These can appear as ratings, recommendations, referrals and feedback. Several repu...
Somayeh Khatiban
KDD
2012
ACM
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12 years 2 months ago
Playlist prediction via metric embedding
Digital storage of personal music collections and cloud-based music services (e.g. Pandora, Spotify) have fundamentally changed how music is consumed. In particular, automatically...
Shuo Chen, Josh L. Moore, Douglas Turnbull, Thorst...
KDD
2012
ACM
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12 years 2 months ago
Open domain event extraction from twitter
Tweets are the most up-to-date and inclusive stream of information and commentary on current events, but they are also fragmented and noisy, motivating the need for systems that c...
Alan Ritter, Mausam, Oren Etzioni, Sam Clark
WSDM
2012
ACM
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12 years 7 months ago
Mining contrastive opinions on political texts using cross-perspective topic model
This paper presents a novel opinion mining research problem, which is called Contrastive Opinion Modeling (COM). Given any query topic and a set of text collections from multiple ...
Yi Fang, Luo Si, Naveen Somasundaram, Zhengtao Yu
IR
2012
12 years 7 months ago
Opinion-based entity ranking
Kavita Ganesan, ChengXiang Zhai