Sciweavers

COLING
2010
13 years 19 days ago
Detecting Speech Repairs Incrementally Using a Noisy Channel Approach
Unrehearsed spoken language often contains disfluencies. In order to correctly interpret a spoken utterance, any such disfluencies must be identified and removed or otherwise deal...
Simon Zwarts, Mark Johnson, Robert Dale
COLING
2010
13 years 19 days ago
Dependency Forest for Statistical Machine Translation
We propose a structure called dependency forest for statistical machine translation. A dependency forest compactly represents multiple dependency trees. We develop new algorithms ...
Zhaopeng Tu, Yang Liu, Young-Sook Hwang, Qun Liu, ...
COLING
2010
13 years 19 days ago
Entity Disambiguation for Knowledge Base Population
The integration of facts derived from information extraction systems into existing knowledge bases requires a system to disambiguate entity mentions in the text. This is challengi...
Mark Dredze, Paul McNamee, Delip Rao, Adam Gerber,...
COLING
2010
13 years 19 days ago
Estimating Linear Models for Compositional Distributional Semantics
In distributional semantics studies, there is a growing attention in compositionally determining the distributional meaning of word sequences. Yet, compositional distributional mo...
Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, Ioannis Korkontzelos, Fran...
COLING
2010
13 years 19 days ago
A Large Scale Ranker-Based System for Search Query Spelling Correction
This paper makes three significant extensions to a noisy channel speller designed for standard written text to target the challenging domain of search queries. First, the noisy ch...
Jianfeng Gao, Xiaolong Li, Daniel Micol, Chris Qui...
COLING
2010
13 years 19 days ago
Jointly Modeling WSD and SRL with Markov Logic
Semantic role labeling (SRL) and word sense disambiguation (WSD) are two fundamental tasks in natural language processing to find a sentence-level semantic representation. To date...
Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu
COLING
2010
13 years 19 days ago
An Empirical Study on Learning to Rank of Tweets
Twitter, as one of the most popular micro-blogging services, provides large quantities of fresh information including real-time news, comments, conversation, pointless babble and ...
Yajuan Duan, Long Jiang, Tao Qin, Ming Zhou, Heung...
COLING
2010
13 years 19 days ago
Filtered Ranking for Bootstrapping in Event Extraction
Several researchers have proposed semi-supervised learning methods for adapting event extraction systems to new event types. This paper investigates two kinds of bootstrapping met...
Shasha Liao, Ralph Grishman
COLING
2010
13 years 19 days ago
Automatic Discovery of Feature Sets for Dependency Parsing
This paper describes a search procedure to discover optimal feature sets for dependency parsers. The search applies to the shift
Peter Nilsson, Pierre Nugues