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ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
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The variety of engaging interactions among users in social medial distinguishes it from traditional Web media. Such a feature should be utilized while attempting to provide intell...
Jia Wang, Qing Li, Yuanzhu Peter Chen, Zhangxi Lin
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
How Many Words Is a Picture Worth? Automatic Caption Generation for News Images
In this paper we tackle the problem of automatic caption generation for news images. Our approach leverages the vast resource of pictures available on the web and the fact that ma...
Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Game-Theoretic Model of Metaphorical Bargaining
We present a game-theoretic model of bargaining over a metaphor in the context of political communication, find its equilibrium, and use it to rationalize observed linguistic beha...
Beata Beigman Klebanov, Eyal Beigman
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Employing Personal/Impersonal Views in Supervised and Semi-Supervised Sentiment Classification
In this paper, we adopt two views, personal and impersonal views, and systematically employ them in both supervised and semi-supervised sentiment classification. Here, personal vi...
Shoushan Li, Chu-Ren Huang, Guodong Zhou, Sophia Y...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Generalized-Zero-Preserving Method for Compact Encoding of Concept Lattices
Constructing an encoding of a concept lattice using short bit vectors allows for efficient computation of join operations on the lattice. Join is the central operation any unifica...
Matthew Skala, Victoria Krakovna, János Kra...
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Combining Data and Mathematical Models of Language Change
English noun/verb (N/V) pairs (contract, cement) have undergone complex patterns of change between 3 stress patterns for several centuries. We describe a longitudinal dataset of N...
Morgan Sonderegger, Partha Niyogi
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
The Human Language Project: Building a Universal Corpus of the World's Languages
We present a grand challenge to build a corpus that will include all of the world's languages, in a consistent structure that permits large-scale cross-linguistic processing,...
Steven P. Abney, Steven Bird
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Modeling Norms of Turn-Taking in Multi-Party Conversation
Substantial research effort has been invested in recent decades into the computational study and automatic processing of multi-party conversation. While most aspects of conversati...
Kornel Laskowski
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
An Exact A* Method for Deciphering Letter-Substitution Ciphers
Letter-substitution ciphers encode a document from a known or hypothesized language into an unknown writing system or an unknown encoding of a known writing system. It is a proble...
Eric Corlett, Gerald Penn