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ACL
2004
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Long-Distance Dependency Resolution in Automatically Acquired Wide-Coverage PCFG-Based LFG Approximations
This paper shows how finite approximations of long distance dependency (LDD) resolution can be obtained automatically for wide-coverage, robust, probabilistic Lexical-Functional G...
Aoife Cahill, Michael Burke, Ruth O'Donovan, Josef...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Sense Disambiguation Using Bilingual Probabilistic Models
We describe two probabilistic models for unsupervised word-sense disambiguation using parallel corpora. The first model, which we call the Sense model, builds on the work of Diab ...
Indrajit Bhattacharya, Lise Getoor, Yoshua Bengio
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Study of Information Synthesis Task
This paper describes an empirical study of the "Information Synthesis" task, defined as the process of (given a complex information need) extracting, organizing and inte...
Enrique Amigó, Julio Gonzalo, Víctor...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
The Sentimental Factor: Improving Review Classification Via Human-Provided Information
Sentiment classification is the task of labeling a review document according to the polarity of its prevailing opinion (favorable or unfavorable). In approaching this problem, a m...
Philip Beineke, Trevor Hastie, Shivakumar Vaithyan...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Computing Locally Coherent Discourses
We present the first algorithm that computes optimal orderings of sentences into a locally coherent discourse. The algorithm runs very efficiently on a variety of coherence measur...
Ernst Althaus, Nikiforos Karamanis, Alexander Koll...
ACL
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Extending the BLEU MT Evaluation Method with Frequency Weightings
We present the results of an experiment on extending the automatic method of Machine Translation evaluation BLUE with statistical weights for lexical items, such as tf.idf scores....
Bogdan Babych, Tony Hartley
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A Feature Based Approach to Leveraging Context for Classifying Newsgroup Style Discussion Segments
On a multi-dimensional text categorization task, we compare the effectiveness of a feature based approach with the use of a stateof-the-art sequential learning technique that has ...
Yi-Chia Wang, Mahesh Joshi, Carolyn Penstein Ros&e...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
On the role of context and prosody in the interpretation of 'okay'
We examine the effect of contextual and acoustic cues in the disambiguation of three discourse-pragmatic functions of the word okay. Results of a perception study show that contex...
Agustín Gravano, Stefan Benus, Hector Chave...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Disambiguating Between Generic and Referential "You" in Dialog
We describe an algorithm for a novel task: disambiguating the pronoun you in conversation. You can be generic or referential; finding referential you is important for tasks such ...
Surabhi Gupta, Matthew Purver, Daniel Jurafsky
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Structured Models for Fine-to-Coarse Sentiment Analysis
In this paper we investigate a structured model for jointly classifying the sentiment of text at varying levels of granularity. Inference in the model is based on standard sequenc...
Ryan T. McDonald, Kerry Hannan, Tyler Neylon, Mike...