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ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Summarizing Emails with Conversational Cohesion and Subjectivity
In this paper, we study the problem of summarizing email conversations. We first build a sentence quotation graph that captures the conversation structure among emails. We adopt t...
Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng, Xiaodong Zhou
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Phrase Chunking Using Entropy Guided Transformation Learning
Entropy Guided Transformation Learning (ETL) is a new machine learning strategy that combines the advantages of decision trees (DT) and Transformation Based Learning (TBL). In thi...
Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Cícero Nogueira do...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Lexicalized Phonotactic Word Segmentation
This paper presents a new unsupervised algorithm (WordEnds) for inferring word boundaries from transcribed adult conversations. Phone ngrams before and after observed pauses are u...
Margaret M. Fleck
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Enhancing Performance of Lexicalised Grammars
This paper describes how external resources can be used to improve parser performance for heavily lexicalised grammars, looking at both robustness and efficiency. In terms of robu...
Rebecca Dridan, Valia Kordoni, Jeremy Nicholson
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Using Conditional Random Fields to Extract Contexts and Answers of Questions from Online Forums
Online forum discussions often contain vast amounts of questions that are the focuses of discussions. Extracting contexts and answers together with the questions will yield not on...
Shilin Ding, Gao Cong, Chin-Yew Lin, Xiaoyan Zhu
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient Multi-Pass Decoding for Synchronous Context Free Grammars
We take a multi-pass approach to machine translation decoding when using synchronous context-free grammars as the translation model and n-gram language models: the first pass uses...
Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Large Scale Acquisition of Paraphrases for Learning Surface Patterns
Paraphrases have proved to be useful in many applications, including Machine Translation, Question Answering, Summarization, and Information Retrieval. Paraphrase acquisition meth...
Rahul Bhagat, Deepak Ravichandran
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Ad Hoc Treebank Structures
We outline the problem of ad hoc rules in treebanks, rules used for specific constructions in one data set and unlikely to be used again. These include ungeneralizable rules, erro...
Markus Dickinson