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EMNLP
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Supervised Models for Coreference Resolution
Traditional learning-based coreference resolvers operate by training a mentionpair classifier for determining whether two mentions are coreferent or not. Two independent lines of ...
Md. Altaf ur Rahman, Vincent Ng
EMNLP
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Domain adaptive bootstrapping for named entity recognition
Bootstrapping is the process of improving the performance of a trained classifier by iteratively adding data that is labeled by the classifier itself to the training set, and retr...
Dan Wu, Wee Sun Lee, Nan Ye, Hai Leong Chieu
EMNLP
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Bidirectional Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation
This paper investigates the effect of direction in phrase-based statistial machine translation decoding. We compare a typical phrase-based machine translation decoder using a left...
Andrew M. Finch, Eiichiro Sumita
EMNLP
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation
This paper introduces a new parser evaluation corpus containing around 700 sentences annotated with unbounded dependencies, from seven different grammatical constructions. We run ...
Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark, Mark Steedman
EMNLP
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Generalized Expectation Criteria for Bootstrapping Extractors using Record-Text Alignment
Traditionally, machine learning approaches for information extraction require human annotated data that can be costly and time-consuming to produce. However, in many cases, there ...
Kedar Bellare, Andrew McCallum
EMNLP
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Phrase Dependency Parsing for Opinion Mining
In this paper, we present a novel approach for mining opinions from product reviews, where it converts opinion mining task to identify product features, expressions of opinions an...
Yuanbin Wu, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang, Lide Wu
EMNLP
2009
13 years 8 months ago
The role of named entities in Web People Search
The ambiguity of person names in the Web has become a new area of interest for NLP researchers. This challenging problem has been formulated as the task of clustering Web search r...
Javier Artiles, Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzal...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 8 months ago
What's in a name? In some languages, grammatical gender
This paper presents an investigation of the relation between words and their gender in two gendered languages: German and Romanian. Gender is an issue that has long preoccupied li...
Vivi Nastase, Marius Popescu
EMNLP
2009
13 years 8 months ago
The infinite HMM for unsupervised PoS tagging
We extend previous work on fully unsupervised part-of-speech tagging. Using a non-parametric version of the HMM, called the infinite HMM (iHMM), we address the problem of choosing...
Jurgen Van Gael, Andreas Vlachos, Zoubin Ghahraman...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 8 months ago
Synchronous Tree Adjoining Machine Translation
Tree Adjoining Grammars have well-known advantages, but are typically considered too difficult for practical systems. We demonstrate that, when done right, adjoining improves tran...
Steve DeNeefe, Kevin Knight