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COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Applying Discourse Analysis and Data Mining Methods to Spoken OSCE Assessments
This paper looks at the transcribed data of patient-doctor consultations in an examination setting. The doctors are internationally qualified and enrolled in a bridging course as ...
Meladel Mistica, Timothy Baldwin, Marisa Cordella,...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Using Web-Search Results to Measure Word-Group Similarity
Semantic relatedness between words is important to many NLP tasks, and numerous measures exist which use a variety of resources. Thus far, such work is confined to measuring simil...
Ann Gledson, John Keane
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Investigating Statistical Techniques for Sentence-Level Event Classification
The ability to correctly classify sentences that describe events is an important task for many natural language applications such as Question Answering (QA) and Summarisation. In ...
Martina Naughton, Nicola Stokes, Joe Carthy
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Discourse Level Opinion Interpretation
This work proposes opinion frames as a representation of discourse-level associations which arise from related opinion topics. We illustrate how opinion frames help gather more in...
Swapna Somasundaran, Janyce Wiebe, Josef Ruppenhof...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Syntactic Reordering Integrated with Phrase-Based SMT
We present a novel approach to word reordering which successfully integrates syntactic structural knowledge with phrase-based SMT. This is done by constructing a lattice of altern...
Jakob Elming
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Local Alignment Kernel in the Context of NLP
This paper discusses local alignment kernels in the context of the relation extraction task. We define a local alignment kernel based on the Smith-Waterman measure as a sequence s...
Sophia Katrenko, Pieter W. Adriaans
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Using Discourse Commitments to Recognize Textual Entailment
In this paper, we introduce a new framework for recognizing textual entailment (RTE) which depends on extraction of the set of publicly-held beliefs
Andrew Hickl
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Computer Aided Correction and Extension of a Syntactic Wide-Coverage Lexicon
The effectiveness of parsers based on manually created resources, namely a grammar and a lexicon, rely mostly on the quality of these resources. Thus, increasing the parser covera...
Lionel Nicolas, Benoît Sagot, Miguel A. Moli...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
PNR2: Ranking Sentences with Positive and Negative Reinforcement for Query-Oriented Update Summarization
Query-oriented update summarization is an emerging summarization task very recently. It brings new challenges to the sentence ranking algorithms that require not only to locate th...
Wenjie Li, Furu Wei, Qin Lu, Yanxiang He
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Anomalies in the WordNet Verb Hierarchy
The WordNet verb hierarchy is tested, with a view to improving the performance of its applications, revealing topological anomalies and casting doubt on its semantic categories. E...
Tom Richens