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ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Using Machine-Learning to Assign Function Labels to Parser Output for Spanish
Data-driven grammatical function tag assignment has been studied for English using the Penn-II Treebank data. In this paper we address the question of whether such methods can be ...
Grzegorz Chrupala, Josef van Genabith
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
An Account for Compound Prepositions in Farsi
There are some sorts of `Preposition + Noun' combinations in Farsi that apparently a Prepositional Phrase almost behaves as Compound Prepositions. As they are not completely ...
Zahra Abolhassani Chime
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Soft Syntactic Constraints for Word Alignment through Discriminative Training
Word alignment methods can gain valuable guidance by ensuring that their alignments maintain cohesion with respect to the phrases specified by a monolingual dependency tree. Howev...
Colin Cherry, Dekang Lin
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
An Empirical Study of Chinese Chunking
In this paper, we describe an empirical study of Chinese chunking on a corpus, which is extracted from UPENN Chinese Treebank-4 (CTB4). First, we compare the performance of the st...
Wenliang Chen, Yujie Zhang, Hitoshi Isahara
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Novel Association Measures Using Web Search with Double Checking
A web search with double checking model is proposed to explore the web as a live corpus. Five association measures including variants of Dice, Overlap Ratio, Jaccard, and Cosine, ...
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Ming-Shun Lin, Yu-Chuan Wei
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
FAST - An Automatic Generation System for Grammar Tests
This paper introduces a method for the semi-automatic generation of grammar test items by applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. Based on manually-designed pattern...
Chia-Yin Chen, Hsien-Chin Liou, Jason S. Chang
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised Relation Disambiguation Using Spectral Clustering
This paper presents an unsupervised learning approach to disambiguate various relations between name entities by use of various lexical and syntactic features from the contexts. I...
Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu ...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Relation Extraction Using Label Propagation Based Semi-Supervised Learning
Shortage of manually labeled data is an obstacle to supervised relation extraction methods. In this paper we investigate a graph based semi-supervised learning algorithm, a label ...
Jinxiu Chen, Dong-Hong Ji, Chew Lim Tan, Zheng-Yu ...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
A Hybrid Convolution Tree Kernel for Semantic Role Labeling
A hybrid convolution tree kernel is proposed in this paper to effectively model syntactic structures for semantic role labeling (SRL). The hybrid kernel consists of two individual...
Wanxiang Che, Min Zhang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li