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COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Retrieving Bilingual Verb-Noun Collocations by Integrating Cross-Language Category Hierarchies
This paper presents a method of retrieving bilingual collocations of a verb and its objective noun from cross-lingual documents with similar contents. Relevant documents are obtai...
Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki, Kazuyuki Yamashit...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
What's the Date? High Accuracy Interpretation of Weekday Names
In this paper we present a study on the interpretation of weekday names in texts. Our algorithm for assigning a date to a weekday name achieves 95.91% accuracy on a test data set ...
Pawel P. Mazur, Robert Dale
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Robust Similarity Measures for Named Entities Matching
Matching coreferent named entities without prior knowledge requires good similarity measures. Soft-TFIDF is a fine-grained measure which performs well in this task. We propose to ...
Erwan Moreau, François Yvon, Olivier Capp&e...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Extracting Synchronous Grammar Rules From Word-Level Alignments in Linear Time
We generalize Uno and Yagiura's algorithm for finding all common intervals of two permutations to the setting of two sequences with many-to-many alignment links across the tw...
Hao Zhang, Daniel Gildea, David Chiang
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Representations for category disambiguation
As it serves as a basis for POS tagging, category induction, and human category acquisition, we investigate the information needed to disambiguate a word in a local context, when ...
Markus Dickinson
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Role Assignment for Event Nominalisations by Leveraging Verbal Data
This paper presents a novel approach to the task of semantic role labelling for event nominalisations, which make up a considerable fraction of predicates in running text, but are...
Sebastian Padó, Marco Pennacchiotti, Caroli...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Discriminative Alignment Model for Abbreviation Recognition
This paper presents a discriminative alignment model for extracting abbreviations and their full forms appearing in actual text. The task of abbreviation recognition is formalized...
Naoaki Okazaki, Sophia Ananiadou, Jun-ichi Tsujii
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
A Fully-Lexicalized Probabilistic Model for Japanese Zero Anaphora Resolution
This paper presents a probabilistic model for Japanese zero anaphora resolution. First, this model recognizes discourse entities and links all mentions to them. Zero pronouns are ...
Ryohei Sasano, Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Word Lattice Reranking for Chinese Word Segmentation and Part-of-Speech Tagging
In this paper, we describe a new reranking strategy named word lattice reranking, for the task of joint Chinese word segmentation and part-of-speech (POS) tagging. As a derivation...
Wenbin Jiang, Haitao Mi, Qun Liu