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COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling Semantic Containment and Exclusion in Natural Language Inference
We propose an approach to natural language inference based on a model of natural logic, which identifies valid inferences by their lexical and syntactic features, without full sem...
Bill MacCartney, Christopher D. Manning
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Stopping Criteria for Active Learning of Named Entity Recognition
Active learning is a proven method for reducing the cost of creating the training sets that are necessary for statistical NLP. However, there has been little work on stopping crit...
Florian Laws, Hinrich Schütze
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Automatic Seed Word Selection for Unsupervised Sentiment Classification of Chinese Text
We describe and evaluate a new method of automatic seed word selection for unsupervised sentiment classification of product reviews in Chinese. The whole method is unsupervised an...
Taras Zagibalov, John Carroll
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Homotopy-Based Semi-Supervised Hidden Markov Models for Sequence Labeling
This paper explores the use of the homotopy method for training a semi-supervised Hidden Markov Model (HMM) used for sequence labeling. We provide a novel polynomial-time algorith...
Gholamreza Haffari, Anoop Sarkar
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Coreference Systems Based on Kernels Methods
Various types of structural information e.g., about the type of constructions in which binding constraints apply, or about the structure of names - play a central role in corefere...
Yannick Versley, Alessandro Moschitti, Massimo Poe...
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Using Syntactic Information for Improving Why-Question Answering
Suzan Verberne, Lou Boves, Nelleke Oostdijk, Peter...
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Topic Identification for Fine-Grained Opinion Analysis
Within the area of general-purpose finegrained subjectivity analysis, opinion topic identification has, to date, received little attention due to both the difficulty of the task a...
Veselin Stoyanov, Claire Cardie
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Using Hidden Markov Random Fields to Combine Distributional and Pattern-Based Word Clustering
Word clustering is a conventional and important NLP task, and the literature has suggested two kinds of approaches to this problem. One is based on the distributional similarity a...
Nobuhiro Kaji, Masaru Kitsuregawa
COLING
2008
13 years 7 months ago
Re-estimation of Lexical Parameters for Treebank PCFGs
We present procedures which pool lexical information estimated from unlabeled data via the Inside-Outside algorithm, with lexical information from a treebank PCFG. The procedures ...
Tejaswini Deoskar