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COLING
2002
13 years 3 months ago
Identifying Anaphoric and Non-Anaphoric Noun Phrases to Improve Coreference Resolution
We present a supervised learning approach to identification of anaphoric and non-anaphoric noun phrases and show how such information can be incorporated into a coreference resolu...
Vincent Ng, Claire Cardie
COLING
2002
13 years 3 months ago
A Methodology for Terminology-based Knowledge Acquisition and Integration
In this paper we propose an integrated knowledge management system in which terminology-based knowledge acquisition, knowledge integration, and XML-based knowledge retrieval are c...
Hideki Mima, Sophia Ananiadou, Goran Nenadic, Jun-...
COLING
2002
13 years 3 months ago
Learning Chinese Bracketing Knowledge Based on a Bilingual Language Model
This paper proposes a new method for automatic acquisition of Chinese bracketing knowledge from English-Chinese sentencealigned bilingual corpora. Bilingual sentence pairs are fir...
Yajuan Lü, Sheng Li, Tiejun Zhao, Muyun Yang
COLING
2002
13 years 3 months ago
Building a Bilingual WordNet-Like Lexicon: The New Approach and Algorithms
A bilingual concept MRD is of significance for IE, MT, WSD and the like. However, it is reasonably difficult to build such a lexicon for there exist two ontologies, also, the evol...
Yang Liu, Shiwen Yu, Jiangsheng Yu
COLING
2002
13 years 3 months ago
Concept Discovery from Text
Broad-coverage lexical resources such as WordNet are extremely useful. However, they often include many rare senses while missing domain-specific senses. We present a clustering a...
Dekang Lin, Patrick Pantel
COLING
2002
13 years 3 months ago
Location Normalization for Information Extraction
Ambiguity is very high for location names. For example, there are 23 cities named `Buffalo' in the U.S. Country names such as `Canada', `Brazil' and `China' ar...
Huifeng Li, Rohini K. Srihari, Cheng Niu, Wei Li 0...
COLING
2002
13 years 3 months ago
The Effectiveness of Dictionary and Web-Based Answer Reranking
We describe an in-depth study of using a dictionary (WordNet) and web search engines (Altavista, MSN, and Google) to boost the performance of an automated question answering syste...
Chin-Yew Lin
COLING
2002
13 years 3 months ago
Learning Question Classifiers
In order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of texts, one needs to understand the question to a level that allows determining some of th...
Xin Li, Dan Roth
COLING
2002
13 years 3 months ago
A DAML+OIL-Compliant Chinese Lexical Ontology
This paper presents an ongoing task that will construct a DAML+OIL-compliant Chinese Lexical Ontology. The ontology mainly comprises three components: a hierarchical taxonomy cons...
Yu-Sheng Lai, Ren-Jr Wang, Wei-Tek Hsu
COLING
2002
13 years 3 months ago
(Semi-)Automatic Detection of Errors in PoS-Tagged Corpora
This paper presents a simple yet in practice very efficient technique serving for automatic detection of those positions in a partof-speech tagged corpus where an error is to be s...
Pavel Kveton, Karel Oliva