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ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Growing Related Words from Seed via User Behaviors: A Re-Ranking Based Approach
Motivated by Google Sets, we study the problem of growing related words from a single seed word by leveraging user behaviors hiding in user records of Chinese input method. Our pr...
Yabin Zheng, Zhiyuan Liu, Lixing Xie
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
How Spoken Language Corpora Can Refine Current Speech Motor Training Methodologies
The growing availability of spoken language corpora presents new opportunities for enriching the methodologies of speech and language therapy. In this paper, we present a novel ap...
Daniil Umanski, Federico Sangati
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Sentiment Translation through Lexicon Induction
The translation of sentiment information is a task from which sentiment analysis systems can benefit. We present a novel, graph-based approach using SimRank, a well-established ve...
Christian Scheible
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Framework for Figurative Language Detection Based on Sense Differentiation
Various text mining algorithms require the process of feature selection. High-level semantically rich features, such as figurative language uses, speech errors etc., are very prom...
Daria Bogdanova
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Transition-Based Parsing with Confidence-Weighted Classification
We show that using confidence-weighted classification in transition-based parsing gives results comparable to using SVMs with faster training and parsing time. We also compare wit...
Martin Haulrich
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Edit Tree Distance Alignments for Semantic Role Labelling
Tree SRL system is a Semantic Role Labelling supervised system based on a tree-distance algorithm and a simple k-NN implementation. The novelty of the system lies in comparing the...
Hector-Hugo Franco-Penya
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Non-Cooperation in Dialogue
This paper presents ongoing research on computational models for non-cooperative dialogue. We start by analysing different levels of cooperation in conversation. Then, inspired by...
Brian Plüss
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Importance of Linguistic Constraints in Statistical Dependency Parsing
Statistical systems with high accuracy are very useful in real-world applications. If these systems can capture basic linguistic information, then the usefulness of these statisti...
Bharat Ram Ambati
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Unsupervised Search for the Optimal Segmentation for Statistical Machine Translation
We tackle the previously unaddressed problem of unsupervised determination of the optimal morphological segmentation for statistical machine translation (SMT) and propose a segmen...
Coskun Mermer, Ahmet Afsn Akn
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Probabilistic Generative Model for an Intermediate Constituency-Dependency Representation
We present a probabilistic model extension to the Tesni`ere Dependency Structure (TDS) framework formulated in (Sangati and Mazza, 2009). This representation incorporates aspects ...
Federico Sangati