COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper proposes an other-anaphora resolution approach in bio-medical texts. It utilizes automatically mined patterns to discover the semantic relation between an anaphor and a...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Media reporting shapes public opinion which can in turn influence events, particularly in political elections, in which candidates both respond to and shape public perception of t...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper presents an implemented hybrid approach to grammar and style checking, combining an industrial patternbased grammar and style checker with bidirectional, large-scale HP...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper describes an incremental approach to parsing transcribed spontaneous speech containing disfluencies with a Hierarchical Hidden Markov Model (HHMM). This model makes use...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Our goal is to use natural language processing to identify deceptive and nondeceptive passages in transcribed narratives. We begin by motivating an analysis of language-based dece...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Distributional measures of lexical similarity and kernel methods for classification are well-known tools in Natural Language Processing. We bring these two methods together by int...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
In Japanese dependency parsing, Kudo's relative preference-based method (Kudo and Matsumoto, 2005) outperforms both deterministic and probabilistic CKY-based parsing methods....
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
State-of-the-art statistical parsing models applied to free word-order languages tend to underperform compared to, e.g., parsing English. Constituency-based models often fail to c...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
In this paper, we work on extending a Chinese thesaurus with words distinctly used in various Chinese communities. The acquisition and classification of such region-specific lexic...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
This paper studies sentiment analysis from the user-generated content on the Web. In particular, it focuses on mining opinions from comparative sentences, i.e., to determine which...