Sciweavers

ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Examining the Content Load of Part of Speech Blocks for Information Retrieval
We investigate the connection between part of speech (POS) distribution and content in language. We define POS blocks to be groups of parts of speech. We hypothesise that there ex...
Christina Lioma, Iadh Ounis
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Modeling Adjectives in Computational Relational Lexica
In this paper we propose a small set of lexical conceptual relations which allow to encode adjectives in computational relational lexica in a principled and integrated way. Our ma...
Palmira Marrafa, Sara Mendes
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Are These Documents Written from Different Perspectives? A Test of Different Perspectives Based on Statistical Distribution Dive
In this paper we investigate how to automatically determine if two document collections are written from different perspectives. By perspectives we mean a point of view, for examp...
Wei-Hao Lin, Alexander G. Hauptmann
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
An End-to-End Discriminative Approach to Machine Translation
We present a perceptron-style discriminative approach to machine translation in which large feature sets can be exploited. Unlike discriminative reranking approaches, our system c...
Percy Liang, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté,...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Exploring Distributional Similarity Based Models for Query Spelling Correction
A query speller is crucial to search engine in improving web search relevance. This paper describes novel methods for use of distributional similarity estimated from query logs in...
Mu Li, Muhua Zhu, Yang Zhang, Ming Zhou
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Pruning of Language Models for Chinese Word Segmentation
This paper presents a discriminative pruning method of n-gram language model for Chinese word segmentation. To reduce the size of the language model that is used in a Chinese word...
Jianfeng Li, Haifeng Wang, Dengjun Ren, Guohua Li
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Extractive Summarization using Inter- and Intra- Event Relevance
Event-based summarization attempts to select and organize the sentences in a summary with respect to the events or the sub-events that the sentences describe. Each event has its o...
Wenjie Li, Mingli Wu, Qin Lu, Wei Xu, Chunfa Yuan
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
An Effective Two-Stage Model for Exploiting Non-Local Dependencies in Named Entity Recognition
This paper shows that a simple two-stage approach to handle non-local dependencies in Named Entity Recognition (NER) can outperform existing approaches that handle non-local depen...
Vijay Krishnan, Christopher D. Manning
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Concept Unification of Terms in Different Languages for IR
Due to the historical and cultural reasons, English phases, especially the proper nouns and new words, frequently appear in Web pages written primarily in Asian languages such as ...
Qing Li, Sung-Hyon Myaeng, Yun Jin, Bo-Yeong Kang
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Classification of Verbs in Biomedical Texts
away concepts from the surface form of the text. The authors argue that while there has been research into automatic classification, general classification schemes are unsuitable f...
Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski, Nigel Collier