ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
2009
We propose a hybrid approach to coordinate structure analysis that combines a simple grammar to ensure consistent global structure of coordinations in a sentence, and features bas...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
2009
We investigate the influence of information status (IS) on constituent order in German, and integrate our findings into a loglinear surface realisation ranking model. We show that...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
2009
Iterative bootstrapping algorithms are typically compared using a single set of handpicked seeds. However, we demonstrate that performance varies greatly depending on these seeds,...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
2009
Wikipedia provides a wealth of knowledge, where the first sentence, infobox (and relevant sentences), and even the entire document of a wiki article could be considered as diverse...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
2009
The lack of Chinese sentiment corpora limits the research progress on Chinese sentiment classification. However, there are many freely available English sentiment corpora on the W...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
2009
This paper proposes a forest-based tree sequence to string translation model for syntaxbased statistical machine translation, which automatically learns tree sequence to string tr...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
2009
Syntactic analysis influences the way in which the source sentence is translated. Previous efforts add syntactic constraints to phrase-based translation by directly rewarding/puni...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
2009
Creating labeled training data for relation extraction is expensive. In this paper, we study relation extraction in a special weakly-supervised setting when we have only a few see...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
2009
In this paper, we present a reinforcement learning approach for mapping natural language instructions to sequences of executable actions. We assume access to a reward function tha...
ACL
2009
13 years 3 months ago
2009
This paper presents an unsupervised relation extraction method for discovering and enhancing relations in which a specified concept in Wikipedia participates. Using respective cha...