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ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
A Bayesian Method for Robust Estimation of Distributional Similarities
Existing word similarity measures are not robust to data sparseness since they rely only on the point estimation of words' context profiles obtained from a limited amount of ...
Jun'ichi Kazama, Stijn De Saeger, Kow Kuroda, Masa...
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
"Ask Not What Textual Entailment Can Do for You..."
We challenge the NLP community to participate in a large-scale, distributed effort to design and build resources for developing and evaluating solutions to new and existing NLP ta...
Mark Sammons, V. G. Vinod Vydiswaran, Dan Roth
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Using Document Level Cross-Event Inference to Improve Event Extraction
Event extraction is a particularly challenging type of information extraction (IE). Most current event extraction systems rely on local information at the phrase or sentence level...
Shasha Liao, Ralph Grishman
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Constituency to Dependency Translation with Forests
Tree-to-string systems (and their forestbased extensions) have gained steady popularity thanks to their simplicity and efficiency, but there is a major limitation: they are unable...
Haitao Mi, Qun Liu
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
A New Approach to Improving Multilingual Summarization Using a Genetic Algorithm
Automated summarization methods can be defined as "language-independent," if they are not based on any languagespecific knowledge. Such methods can be used for multiling...
Marina Litvak, Mark Last, Menahem Friedman
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
On the Computational Complexity of Dominance Links in Grammatical Formalisms
Dominance links were introduced in grammars to model long distance scrambling phenomena, motivating the definition of multiset-valued linear indexed grammars (MLIGs) by Rambow (19...
Sylvain Schmitz
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Letter-Phoneme Alignment: An Exploration
Letter-phoneme alignment is usually generated by a straightforward application of the EM algorithm. We explore several alternative alignment methods that employ phonetics, integer...
Sittichai Jiampojamarn, Grzegorz Kondrak
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Identifying Text Polarity Using Random Walks
Automatically identifying the polarity of words is a very important task in Natural Language Processing. It has applications in text classification, text filtering, analysis of pr...
Ahmed Hassan, Dragomir R. Radev
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Incorporating Extra-Linguistic Information into Reference Resolution in Collaborative Task Dialogue
This paper proposes an approach to reference resolution in situated dialogues by exploiting extra-linguistic information. Recently, investigations of referential behaviours involv...
Ryu Iida, Syumpei Kobayashi, Takenobu Tokunaga
ACL
2010
13 years 3 months ago
Estimating Strictly Piecewise Distributions
Strictly Piecewise (SP) languages are a subclass of regular languages which encode certain kinds of long-distance dependencies that are found in natural languages. Like the classe...
Jeffrey Heinz, James Rogers