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EMNLP
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Large-Scale Verb Entailment Acquisition from the Web
Textual entailment recognition plays a fundamental role in tasks that require indepth natural language understanding. In order to use entailment recognition technologies for real-...
Chikara Hashimoto, Kentaro Torisawa, Kow Kuroda, S...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Statistical Estimation of Word Acquisition with Application to Readability Prediction
Models of language learning play a central role in a wide range of applications: from psycholinguistic theories of how people acquire new word knowledge, to information systems th...
Paul Kidwell, Guy Lebanon, Kevyn Collins-Thompson
EMNLP
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Re-Ranking Models Based-on Small Training Data for Spoken Language Understanding
The design of practical language applications by means of statistical approaches requires annotated data, which is one of the most critical constraint. This is particularly true f...
Marco Dinarelli, Alessandro Moschitti, Giuseppe Ri...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 3 months ago
SCFG Decoding Without Binarization
Conventional wisdom dictates that synchronous context-free grammars (SCFGs) must be converted to Chomsky Normal Form (CNF) to ensure cubic time decoding. For arbitrary SCFGs, this...
Mark Hopkins, Greg Langmead
EMNLP
2009
13 years 3 months ago
Cross-lingual Semantic Relatedness Using Encyclopedic Knowledge
In this paper, we address the task of crosslingual semantic relatedness. We introduce a method that relies on the information extracted from Wikipedia, by exploiting the interlang...
Samer Hassan, Rada Mihalcea