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ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
An Unsupervised Vector Approach to Biomedical Term Disambiguation: Integrating UMLS and Medline
This paper introduces an unsupervised vector approach to disambiguate words in biomedical text that can be applied to all-word disambiguation. We explore using contextual informat...
Bridget McInnes
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Supervised Learning Approach to Automatic Synonym Identification Based on Distributional Features
Distributional similarity has been widely used to capture the semantic relatedness of words in many NLP tasks. However, various parameters such as similarity measures must be hand...
Masato Hagiwara
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Impact of Initiative on Collaborative Problem Solving
Even though collaboration in peer learning has been shown to have a positive impact for students, there has been little research into collaborative peer learning dialogues. We ana...
Cynthia Kersey
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Arabic Language Modeling with Finite State Transducers
In morphologically rich languages such as Arabic, the abundance of word forms resulting from increased morpheme combinations is significantly greater than for languages with fewer...
Ilana Heintz
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Inferring Activity Time in News through Event Modeling
Many applications in NLP, such as questionanswering and summarization, either require or would greatly benefit from the knowledge of when an event occurred. Creating an effective ...
Vladimir Eidelman
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Subcategorization Acquisition System for French Verbs
This paper presents a system capable of automatically acquiring subcategorization frames (SCFs) for French verbs from the analysis of large corpora. We applied the system to a lar...
Cédric Messiant
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Language Modeling for Word Prediction
We present the development and tuning of a topic-adapted language model for word prediction, which improves keystroke savings over a comparable baseline. We outline our plans to d...
Keith Trnka
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
SIDE: The Summarization Integrated Development Environment
In this type-II demo, we introduce SIDE1 (the Summarization Integrated Development Environment), an infrastructure that facilitates construction of summaries tailored to the needs...
Moonyoung Kang, Sourish Chaudhuri, Mahesh Joshi, C...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Generating Research Websites Using Summarisation Techniques
We describe an application that generates web pages for research institutions by summarising terms extracted from individual researchers' publication titles. Our online demo ...
Advaith Siddharthan, Ann A. Copestake