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COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Easily Identifiable Discourse Relations
We present a corpus study of local discourse relations based on the Penn Discourse Tree Bank, a large manually annotated corpus of explicitly or implicitly realized relations. We ...
Emily Pitler, Mridhula Raghupathy, Hena Mehta, Ani...
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Word Sense Disambiguation for All Words using Tree-Structured Conditional Random Fields
We propose a supervised word sense disambiguation (WSD) method using tree-structured conditional random fields (TCRFs). By applying TCRFs to a sentence described as a dependency t...
Jun Hatori, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-ichi Tsujii
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
A Language-Independent Approach to Keyphrase Extraction and Evaluation
We present Likey, a language-independent keyphrase extraction method based on statistical analysis and the use of a reference corpus. Likey has a very light-weight preprocessing p...
Mari-Sanna Paukkeri, Ilari T. Nieminen, Matti P&ou...
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Towards Incremental End-of-Utterance Detection in Dialogue Systems
We define the task of incremental or 0lag utterance segmentation, that is, the task of segmenting an ongoing speech recognition stream into utterance units, and present first resu...
Michaela Atterer, Timo Baumann, David Schlangen
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Phrasal Segmentation Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Phrasal segmentation models define a mapping from the words of a sentence to sequences of translatable phrases. We discuss the estimation of these models from large quantities of ...
Graeme W. Blackwood, Adrià de Gispert, Will...
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Integrating Motion Predicate Classes with Spatial and Temporal Annotations
We propose a spatio-temporal markup for the annotation of motion predicates in text, informed by a lexical semantic classification of these verbs. We incorporate this classificati...
James Pustejovsky, Jessica L. Moszkowicz
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
A Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Framework to Train a Semantic Parser from an Un-annotated Corpus
We propose a hybrid generative/discriminative framework for semantic parsing which combines the hidden vector state (HVS) model and the hidden Markov support vector machines (HMSV...
Deyu Zhou, Yulan He
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Evaluating Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging for Grammar Induction
This paper explores the relationship between various measures of unsupervised part-of-speech tag induction and the performance of both supervised and unsupervised parsing models t...
William P. Headden III, David McClosky, Eugene Cha...