ACL
2009
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2009
Searching for a person name in a Web Search Engine usually leads to a number of web pages that refer to several people sharing the same name. In this paper we study whether it is ...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
In this paper, emotion analysis on blog texts has been carried out for a less privileged language like Bengali. Ekman's six basic emotion types have been selected for reliabl...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Identifying whether a multi-word expression (MWE) is compositional or not is important for numerous NLP applications. Sense induction can partition the context of MWEs into semant...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
For many NLP tasks, including named entity tagging, semi-supervised learning has been proposed as a reasonable alternative to methods that require annotating large amounts of trai...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Many events in news articles don't include time arguments. This paper describes two methods, one based on rules and the other based on statistical learning, to predict the un...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
We examine correlations between native speaker judgements on automatically generated German text against automatic evaluation metrics. We look at a number of metrics from the MT a...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
The importance of the new textual genres such as blogs or forum entries is growing in parallel with the evolution of the Social Web. This paper presents two corpora of blog posts ...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Most approaches to topic modeling assume an independence between documents that is frequently violated. We present an topic model that makes use of one or more user-specified grap...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
We present a syntactic and lexically based discourse segmenter (SLSeg) that is designed to avoid the common problem of over-segmenting text. Segmentation is the first step in a di...
ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
Negative life events, such as death of a family member, argument with a spouse and loss of a job, play an important role in triggering depressive episodes. Therefore, it is worth ...