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ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Grammar Approximation by Representative Sublanguage: A New Model for Language Learning
We propose a new language learning model that learns a syntactic-semantic grammar from a small number of natural language strings annotated with their semantics, along with basic ...
Smaranda Muresan, Owen Rambow
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Single Generative Model for Joint Morphological Segmentation and Syntactic Parsing
Morphologicalprocesses in Semitic languages deliver space-delimited words which introduce multiple, distinct, syntactic units into the structure of the input sentence. These words...
Yoav Goldberg, Reut Tsarfaty
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Machine Translation between Turkic Languages
We present an approach to MT between Turkic languages and present results from an implementation of a MT system from Turkmen to Turkish. Our approach relies on ambiguous lexical a...
A. Cüneyd Tantug, Esref Adali, Kemal Oflazer
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
You Talking to Me? A Corpus and Algorithm for Conversation Disentanglement
When multiple conversations occur simultaneously, a listener must decide which conversation each utterance is part of in order to interpret and respond to it appropriately. We ref...
Micha Elsner, Eugene Charniak
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Which Are the Best Features for Automatic Verb Classification
In this work, we develop and evaluate a wide range of feature spaces for deriving Levinstyle verb classifications (Levin, 1993). We perform the classification experiments using Ba...
Jianguo Li, Chris Brew
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Resolving Personal Names in Email Using Context Expansion
This paper describes a computational approach to resolving the true referent of a named mention of a person in the body of an email. A generative model of mention generation is us...
Tamer Elsayed, Douglas W. Oard, Galileo Namata
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Credibility Improves Topical Blog Post Retrieval
Topical blog post retrieval is the task of ranking blog posts with respect to their relevance for a given topic. To improve topical blog post retrieval we incorporate textual cred...
Wouter Weerkamp, Maarten de Rijke
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Joint Model of Text and Aspect Ratings for Sentiment Summarization
Online reviews are often accompanied with numerical ratings provided by users for a set of service or product aspects. We propose a statistical model which is able to discover cor...
Ivan Titov, Ryan T. McDonald
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Mining Wiki Resources for Multilingual Named Entity Recognition
In this paper, we describe a system by which the multilingual characteristics of Wikipedia can be utilized to annotate a large corpus of text with Named Entity Recognition (NER) t...
Alexander E. Richman, Patrick Schone