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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Word Sense Disambiguation Using Lexical Cohesion in the Context
This paper designs a novel lexical hub to disambiguate word sense, using both syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations of words. It only employs the semantic network of WordNet to c...
Dongqiang Yang, David M. W. Powers
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Aligning Features with Sense Distinction Dimensions
In this paper we present word sense disambiguation (WSD) experiments on ten highly polysemous verbs in Chinese, where significant performance improvements are achieved using rich ...
Nianwen Xue, Jinying Chen, Martha Palmer
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Phonetic-Based Approach to Chinese Chat Text Normalization
Chatting is a popular communication media on the Internet via ICQ, chat rooms, etc. Chat language is different from natural language due to its anomalous and dynamic natures, whic...
Yunqing Xia, Kam-Fai Wong, Wenjie Li
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Boosting Statistical Word Alignment Using Labeled and Unlabeled Data
This paper proposes a semi-supervised boosting approach to improve statistical word alignment with limited labeled data and large amounts of unlabeled data. The proposed approach ...
Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang, Zhan-yi Liu
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Grammatical Approach to Understanding Textual Tables Using Two-Dimensional SCFGs
We present an elegant and extensible model that is capable of providing semantic interpretations for an unusually wide range of textual tables in documents. Unlike the few existin...
Dekai Wu, Ken Wing Kuen Lee
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Computational Analysis of Move Structures in Academic Abstracts
Jien-Chen Wu, Yu-Chia Chang, Hsien-Chin Liou, Jaso...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Word Sense and Subjectivity
Subjectivity and meaning are both important properties of language. This paper explores their interaction, and brings empirical evidence in support of the hypotheses that (1) subj...
Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Empirical Lower Bounds on the Complexity of Translational Equivalence
This paper describes a study of the patterns of translational equivalence exhibited by a variety of bitexts. The study found that the complexity of these patterns in every bitext ...
Benjamin Wellington, Sonjia Waxmonsky, I. Dan Mela...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
TwicPen: Hand-held Scanner and Translation Software for non-Native Readers
TwicPen is a terminology-assistance system for readers of printed (ie. off-line) material in foreign languages. It consists of a hand-held scanner and sophisticated parsing and tr...
Eric Wehrli