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COLING
2010
13 years 9 days ago
Enhancing Morphological Alignment for Translating Highly Inflected Languages
We propose an unsupervised approach utilizing only raw corpora to enhance morphological alignment involving highly inflected languages. Our method focuses on closed-class morpheme...
Minh-Thang Luong, Min-Yen Kan
COLING
2010
13 years 9 days ago
FactRank: Random Walks on a Web of Facts
Fact collections are mostly built using semi-supervised relation extraction techniques and wisdom of the crowds methods, rendering them inherently noisy. In this paper, we propose...
Alpa Jain, Patrick Pantel
COLING
2010
13 years 9 days ago
Recognising Entailment within Discourse
Texts are commonly interpreted based on the entire discourse in which they are situated. Discourse processing has been shown useful for inference-based application; yet, most syst...
Shachar Mirkin, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan, Eyal S...
COLING
2010
13 years 9 days ago
Automated Translation of Semantic Relationships
We present a method for translating semantic relationships between languages where relationships are defined as pattern clusters. Given a pattern set which represents a semantic r...
Dmitry Davidov, Ari Rappoport
COLING
2010
13 years 9 days ago
Dependency-driven Anaphoricity Determination for Coreference Resolution
This paper proposes a dependency-driven scheme to dynamically determine the syntactic parse tree structure for tree kernel-based anaphoricity determination in coreference resoluti...
Fang Kong, Guodong Zhou, Longhua Qian, Qiaoming Zh...
COLING
2010
13 years 9 days ago
Resolving Object and Attribute Coreference in Opinion Mining
Coreference resolution is a classic NLP problem and has been studied extensively by many researchers. Most existing studies, however, are generic in the sense that they are not fo...
Xiaowen Ding, Bing Liu
COLING
2010
13 years 9 days ago
Multi-Sentence Compression: Finding Shortest Paths in Word Graphs
We consider the task of summarizing a cluster of related sentences with a short sentence which we call multi-sentence compression and present a simple approach based on shortest p...
Katja Filippova
COLING
2010
13 years 9 days ago
Large Scale Parallel Document Mining for Machine Translation
A distributed system is described that reliably mines parallel text from large corpora. The approach can be regarded as cross-language near-duplicate detection, enabled by an init...
Jakob Uszkoreit, Jay Ponte, Ashok C. Popat, Moshe ...
COLING
2010
13 years 9 days ago
Multi-Document Summarization via the Minimum Dominating Set
Multi-document summarization aims to distill the most important information from a set of documents to generate a compressed summary. Given a sentence graph generated from a set o...
Chao Shen, Tao Li
COLING
2010
13 years 9 days ago
Finding the Storyteller: Automatic Spoiler Tagging using Linguistic Cues
Given a movie comment, does it contain a spoiler? A spoiler is a comment that, when disclosed, would ruin a surprise or reveal an important plot detail. We study automatic methods...
Sheng Guo, Naren Ramakrishnan