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ACL
2015
8 years 7 months ago
Matrix Factorization with Knowledge Graph Propagation for Unsupervised Spoken Language Understanding
Spoken dialogue systems (SDS) typically require a predefined semantic ontology to train a spoken language understanding (SLU) module. In addition to the annotation cost, a key ch...
Yun-Nung Chen, William Yang Wang, Anatole Gershman...
ACL
2015
8 years 7 months ago
SACRY: Syntax-based Automatic Crossword puzzle Resolution sYstem
In this paper, we present our Crossword Puzzle Resolution System (SACRY), which exploits syntactic structures for clue reranking and answer extraction. SACRY uses a database (DB) ...
Alessandro Moschitti, Massimo Nicosia, Gianni Barl...
ACL
2015
8 years 7 months ago
Exploiting Image Generality for Lexical Entailment Detection
We exploit the visual properties of concepts for lexical entailment detection by examining a concept’s generality. We introduce three unsupervised methods for determining a conc...
Douwe Kiela, Laura Rimell, Ivan Vulic, Stephen Cla...
ACL
2015
8 years 7 months ago
Discontinuous Incremental Shift-reduce Parsing
We present an extension to incremental shift-reduce parsing that handles discontinuous constituents, using a linear classifier and beam search. We achieve very high parsing speed...
Wolfgang Maier
ACL
2015
8 years 7 months ago
Joint Graphical Models for Date Selection in Timeline Summarization
Automatic timeline summarization (TLS) generates precise, dated overviews over (often prolonged) events, such as wars or economic crises. One subtask of TLS selects the most impor...
Giang Binh Tran, Eelco Herder, Katja Markert
ACL
2015
8 years 7 months ago
On metric embedding for boosting semantic similarity computations
Computing pairwise word semantic similarity is widely used and serves as a building block in many tasks in NLP. In this paper, we explore the embedding of the shortest-path metric...
Julien Subercaze, Christophe Gravier, Fréd&...
ACL
2015
8 years 7 months ago
Painless Labeling with Application to Text Mining
Labeled data is not readily available for many natural language domains, and it typically requires expensive human effort with considerable domain knowledge to produce a set of la...
Sajib Dasgupta
ACL
2015
8 years 7 months ago
Simple Learning and Compositional Application of Perceptually Grounded Word Meanings for Incremental Reference Resolution
An elementary way of using language is to refer to objects. Often, these objects are physically present in the shared environment and reference is done via mention of perceivable ...
Casey Kennington, David Schlangen
ACL
2015
8 years 7 months ago
Why discourse affects speakers' choice of referring expressions
We propose a language production model that uses dynamic discourse information to account for speakers’ choices of referring expressions. Our model extends previous rational spe...
Naho Orita, Eliana Vornov, Naomi Feldman, Hal Daum...