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ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Cognitive Cost Model of Annotations Based on Eye-Tracking Data
We report on an experiment to track complex decision points in linguistic metadata annotation where the decision behavior of annotators is observed with an eyetracking device. As ...
Katrin Tomanek, Udo Hahn, Steffen Lohmann, Jü...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Transition-Based Parser for 2-Planar Dependency Structures
Finding a class of structures that is rich enough for adequate linguistic representation yet restricted enough for efficient computational processing is an important problem for d...
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Joakim Nivre
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Fully Unsupervised Core-Adjunct Argument Classification
The core-adjunct argument distinction is a basic one in the theory of argument structure. The task of distinguishing between the two has strong relations to various basic NLP task...
Omri Abend, Ari Rappoport
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Temporal Information Processing of a New Language: Fast Porting with Minimal Resources
We describe the semi-automatic adaptation of a TimeML annotated corpus from English to Portuguese, a language for which TimeML annotated data was not available yet. In order to va...
Francisco Costa, António Branco
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Exploring Syntactic Structural Features for Sub-Tree Alignment Using Bilingual Tree Kernels
We propose Bilingual Tree Kernels (BTKs) to capture the structural similarities across a pair of syntactic translational equivalences and apply BTKs to sub-tree alignment along wi...
Jun Sun, Min Zhang, Chew Lim Tan
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Syntactic and Semantic Factors in Processing Difficulty: An Integrated Measure
The analysis of reading times can provide insights into the processes that underlie language comprehension, with longer reading times indicating greater cognitive load. There is e...
Jeff Mitchell, Mirella Lapata, Vera Demberg, Frank...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Latent Variable Models of Selectional Preference
This paper describes the application of so-called topic models to selectional preference induction. Three models related to Latent Dirichlet Allocation, a proven method for modell...
Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Evaluating Multilanguage-Comparability of Subjectivity Analysis Systems
Subjectivity analysis is a rapidly growing field of study. Along with its applications to various NLP tasks, much work have put efforts into multilingual subjectivity learning fro...
Jungi Kim, Jinji Li, Jong-Hyeok Lee
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Comparable Entity Mining from Comparative Questions
Comparing one thing with another is a typical part of human decision making process. However, it is not always easy to know what to compare and what are the alternatives. To addre...
Shasha Li, Chin-Yew Lin, Young-In Song, Zhoujun Li