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COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Pedagogically Useful Extractive Summaries for Science Education
This paper describes the design and evaluation of an extractive summarizer for educational science content called COGENT. COGENT extends MEAD based on strategies elicited from an ...
Sebastian de la Chica, Faisal Ahmad, James H. Mart...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Grammar Comparison Study for Translational Equivalence Modeling and Statistical Machine Translation
This paper presents a general platform, namely synchronous tree sequence substitution grammar (STSSG), for the grammar comparison study in Translational Equivalence Modeling (TEM)...
Min Zhang, Hongfei Jiang, Haizhou Li, AiTi Aw, She...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Two-Phased Event Relation Acquisition: Coupling the Relation-Oriented and Argument-Oriented Approaches
Addressing the task of acquiring semantic relations between events from a large corpus, we first argue the complementarity between the pattern-based relation-oriented approach and...
Shuya Abe, Kentaro Inui, Yuji Matsumoto
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Contents Modelling of Neo-Sumerian Ur III Economic Text Corpus
This paper describes a system for processing economic documents written in the ancient Sumerian language. The system is application-oriented and takes advantage of the simplicity ...
Wojciech Jaworski
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Almost Flat Functional Semantics for Speech Translation
We introduce a novel semantic representation formalism, Almost Flat Functional semantics (AFF), which is designed as an intelligent compromise between linguistically motivated pre...
Manny Rayner, Pierrette Bouillon, Beth Ann Hockey,...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
The Choice of Features for Classification of Verbs in Biomedical Texts
We conduct large-scale experiments to investigate optimal features for classification of verbs in biomedical texts. We introduce a range of feature sets and associated extraction ...
Anna Korhonen, Yuval Krymolowski, Nigel Collier
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Investigating the Portability of Corpus-Derived Cue Phrases for Dialogue Act Classification
We present recent work in the area of Cross-Domain Dialogue Act tagging. Our experiments investigate the use of a simple dialogue act classifier based on purely intra-utterance fe...
Nick Webb, Ting Liu
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Latent Morpho-Semantic Analysis: Multilingual Information Retrieval with Character N-Grams and Mutual Information
We describe an entirely statistics-based, unsupervised, and languageindependent approach to multilingual information retrieval, which we call Latent Morpho-Semantic Analysis (LMSA...
Peter A. Chew, Brett W. Bader, Ahmed Abdelali
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Regenerating Hypotheses for Statistical Machine Translation
This paper studies three techniques that improve the quality of N-best hypotheses through additional regeneration process. Unlike the multi-system consensus approach where multipl...
Boxing Chen, Min Zhang, AiTi Aw, Haizhou Li
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Textual Demand Analysis: Detection of Users' Wants and Needs from Opinions
This paper tackles textual demand analysis, the task of capturing what people want or need, rather than identifying what they like or dislike, on which much conventional work has ...
Hiroshi Kanayama, Tetsuya Nasukawa