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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Semi-Supervised Conditional Random Fields for Improved Sequence Segmentation and Labeling
We present a new semi-supervised training procedure for conditional random fields (CRFs) that can be used to train sequence segmentors and labelers from a combination of labeled a...
Feng Jiao, Shaojun Wang, Chi-Hoon Lee, Russell Gre...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Local Constraints on Sentence Markers and Focus in Somali
We present a computationally tractable account of the interactions between sentence markers and focus marking in Somali. Somali, as a Cushitic language, has a basic pattern wherei...
Katherine Hargreaves, Allan Ramsay
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Scaling Distributional Similarity to Large Corpora
Accurately representing synonymy using distributional similarity requires large volumes of data to reliably represent infrequent words. However, the na
James Gorman, James R. Curran
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Detection of Quotations and Inserted Clauses and Its Application to Dependency Structure Analysis in Spontaneous Japanese
Japanese dependency structure is usually represented by relationships between phrasal units called bunsetsus. One of the biggest problems with dependency structure analysis in spo...
Ryoji Hamabe, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Tatsuya Kawahara,...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Contextual Dependencies in Unsupervised Word Segmentation
Developing better methods for segmenting continuous text into words is important for improving the processing of Asian languages, and may shed light on how humans learn to segment...
Sharon Goldwater, Thomas L. Griffiths, Mark Johnso...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Event Extraction in a Plot Advice Agent
In this paper we present how the automatic extraction of events from text can be used to both classify narrative texts according to plot quality and produce advice in an interacti...
Harry Halpin, Johanna D. Moore
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Classifiers for Deterministic Dependency Parsing
Deterministic parsing guided by treebankinduced classifiers has emerged as a simple and efficient alternative to more complex models for data-driven parsing. We present a systemat...
Johan Hall, Joakim Nivre, Jens Nilsson
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
PCFGs with Syntactic and Prosodic Indicators of Speech Repairs
A grammatical method of combining two kinds of speech repair cues is presented. One cue, prosodic disjuncture, is detected by a decision tree-based ensemble classifier that uses a...
John Hale, Izhak Shafran, Lisa Yung, Bonnie J. Dor...
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Comparable Corpora and Bilingual Dictionaries for Cross-Language Text Categorization
Cross-language Text Categorization is the task of assigning semantic classes to documents written in a target language (e.g. English) while the system is trained using labeled doc...
Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Carlo Strapparava