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COLING
2010
12 years 12 months ago
Robust Measurement and Comparison of Context Similarity for Finding Translation Pairs
In cross-language information retrieval it is often important to align words that are similar in meaning in two corpora written in different languages. Previous research shows tha...
Daniel Andrade, Tetsuya Nasukawa, Jun-ichi Tsujii
COLING
2010
12 years 12 months ago
Exploring variation across biomedical subdomains
Previous research has demonstrated the importance of handling differences between domains such as "newswire" and "biomedicine" when porting NLP systems from on...
Tom Lippincott, Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha,...
COLING
2010
12 years 12 months ago
Detection of Simple Plagiarism in Computer Science Papers
Plagiarism is the use of the language and thoughts of another work and the representation of them as one's own original work. Various levels of plagiarism exist in many domai...
Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner, Aharon Tayeb, Natan Ben-Dro...
COLING
2010
12 years 12 months ago
Exploiting Background Knowledge for Relation Extraction
Relation extraction is the task of recognizing semantic relations among entities. Given a particular sentence supervised approaches to Relation Extraction employed feature or kern...
Yee Seng Chan, Dan Roth
COLING
2010
12 years 12 months ago
Comparing Language Similarity across Genetic and Typologically-Based Groupings
Recent studies have shown the potential benefits of leveraging resources for resource-rich languages to build tools for similar, but resource-poor languages. We examine what const...
Ryan Georgi, Fei Xia, William Lewis
COLING
2010
12 years 12 months ago
Learning to Predict Readability using Diverse Linguistic Features
In this paper we consider the problem of building a system to predict readability of natural-language documents. Our system is trained using diverse features based on syntax and l...
Rohit J. Kate, Xiaoqiang Luo, Siddharth Patwardhan...
COLING
2010
12 years 12 months ago
EMDC: A Semi-supervised Approach for Word Alignment
This paper proposes a novel semisupervised word alignment technique called EMDC that integrates discriminative and generative methods. A discriminative aligner is used to find hig...
Qin Gao, Francisco Guzmán, Stephan Vogel
COLING
2010
12 years 12 months ago
Syntactic Scope Resolution in Uncertainty Analysis
Lilja Øvrelid, Erik Velldal, Stephan Oepen