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ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Classifying Semantic Relations in Bioscience Texts
A crucial step toward the goal of automatic extraction of propositional information from natural language text is the identification of semantic relations between constituents in ...
Barbara Rosario, Marti A. Hearst
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Wrapping of Trees
We explore the descriptive power, in terms of syntactic phenomena, of a formalism that extends TreeAdjoining Grammar (TAG) by adding a fourth level of hierarchical decomposition t...
James Rogers
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Language Modeling with Conditional Random Fields and the Perceptron Algorithm
This paper describes discriminative language modeling for a large vocabulary speech recognition task. We contrast two parameter estimation methods: the perceptron algorithm, and a...
Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar, Michael Collins, Mark...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Learning to Resolve Bridging References
We use machine learning techniques to find the best combination of local focus and lexical distance features for identifying the anchor of mereological bridging references. We fin...
Massimo Poesio, Rahul Mehta, Axel Maroudas, Janet ...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Balancing Clarity and Efficiency in Typed Feature Logic Through Delaying
The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the balance between clarity and efficiency in HPSG design, with particular reference to the design decisions made in the English Resourc...
Gerald Penn
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Mining Metalinguistic Activity in Corpora to Create Lexical Resources Using Information Extraction Techniques: the MOP System
This paper describes and evaluates MOP, an IE system for automatic extraction of metalinguistic information from technical and scientific documents. We claim that such a system ca...
Carlos Rodríguez Penagos
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Sentimental Education: Sentiment Analysis Using Subjectivity Summarization Based on Minimum Cuts
Sentiment analysis seeks to identify the viewpoint(s) underlying a text span; an example application is classifying a movie review as "thumbs up" or "thumbs down&qu...
Bo Pang, Lillian Lee
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
An Alternative Method of Training Probabilistic LR Parsers
We discuss existing approaches to train LR parsers, which have been used for statistical resolution of structural ambiguity. These approaches are nonoptimal, in the sense that a c...
Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic Parsing Strategies
We present new results on the relation between context-free parsing strategies and their probabilistic counter-parts. We provide a necessary condition and a sufficient condition f...
Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta