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COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting Graph Structure for Accelerating the Calculation of Shortest Paths in Wordnets
This paper presents an approach for substantially reducing the time needed to calculate the shortest paths between all concepts in a wordnet. The algorithm exploits the unique &qu...
Holger Wunsch
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
CollabRank: Towards a Collaborative Approach to Single-Document Keyphrase Extraction
Previous methods usually conduct the keyphrase extraction task for single documents separately without interactions for each document, under the assumption that the documents are ...
Xiaojun Wan, Jianguo Xiao
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Detecting Multiple Facets of an Event using Graph-Based Unsupervised Methods
We propose a new unsupervised method for topic detection that automatically identifies the different facets of an event. We use pointwise Kullback-Leibler divergence along with th...
Pradeep Muthukrishnan, Joshua Gerrish, Dragomir R....
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Generating Chinese Couplets using a Statistical MT Approach
Part of the unique cultural heritage of China is the game of Chinese couplets (du
Long Jiang, Ming Zhou
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Improving Statistical Machine Translation using Lexicalized Rule Selection
This paper proposes a novel lexicalized approach for rule selection for syntax-based statistical machine translation (SMT). We build maximum entropy (MaxEnt) models which combine ...
Zhongjun He, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Generation of Parallel Treebanks
The need for syntactically annotated data for use in natural language processing has increased dramatically in recent years. This is true especially for parallel treebanks, of whi...
Ventsislav Zhechev, Andy Way
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Measuring Topic Homogeneity and its Application to Dictionary-Based Word Sense Disambiguation
The use of topical features is abundant in Natural Language Processing (NLP), a major example being in dictionary-based Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). Yet previous research does...
Ann Gledson, John Keane
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Reliable Information for Dependency Parsing Adaptation
In this paper, we focus on the adaptation problem that has a large labeled data in the source domain and a large but unlabeled data in the target domain. Our aim is to learn relia...
Wenliang Chen, Youzheng Wu, Hitoshi Isahara
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
The Ups and Downs of Preposition Error Detection in ESL Writing
In this paper we describe a methodology for detecting preposition errors in the writing of non-native English speakers. Our system performs at 84% precision and close to 19% recal...
Joel R. Tetreault, Martin Chodorow
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Event Frame Extraction Based on a Gene Regulation Corpus
This paper describes the supervised acquisition of semantic event frames based pus of biomedical abstracts, in which the biological process of E. coli gene regulation has been lin...
Yutaka Sasaki, Paul Thompson, Philip Cotter, John ...