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COLING
2010
13 years 19 hour ago
Semantic Classification of Automatically Acquired Nouns using Lexico-Syntactic Clues
In this paper, we present a two-stage approach to acquire Japanese unknown morphemes from text with full POS tags assigned to them. We first acquire unknown morphemes only making ...
Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi
COLING
2010
13 years 19 hour ago
Argument Optionality in the LinGO Grammar Matrix
We present a library of implemented HPSG analyses for argument optionality based on typological studies of this phenomenon in the world's languages, developed in the context ...
Safiyyah Saleem, Emily M. Bender
COLING
2010
13 years 19 hour ago
Informed ways of improving data-driven dependency parsing for German
We investigate a series of targeted modifications to a data-driven dependency parser of German and show that these can be highly effective even for a relatively well studied langu...
Wolfgang Seeker, Bernd Bohnet, Lilja Øvreli...
COLING
2010
13 years 19 hour ago
Learning Phrase Boundaries for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
Hierarchical phrase-based models provide a powerful mechanism to capture non-local phrase reorderings for statistical machine translation (SMT). However, many phrase reorderings a...
Zhongjun He, Yao Meng, Hao Yu
COLING
2010
13 years 19 hour ago
Utilizing Variability of Time and Term Content, within and across Users in Session Detection
In this paper, we describe a SVM classification framework of session detection task on both Chinese and English query logs. With eight features on the aspects of temporal and cont...
Shu-Qi Sun, Sheng Li, Muyun Yang, Haoliang Qi, Tie...
COLING
2010
13 years 19 hour ago
Expressing OWL axioms by English sentences: dubious in theory, feasible in practice
With OWL (Web Ontology Language) established as a standard for encoding ontologies on the Semantic Web, interest has begun to focus on the task of verbalising OWL code in controll...
Richard Power, Allan Third
COLING
2010
13 years 19 hour ago
Acquisition of Unknown Word Paradigms for Large-Scale Grammars
Unknown words are a major issue for large-scale grammars of natural language. We propose a machine learning based algorithm for acquiring lexical entries for all forms in the para...
Kostadin Cholakov, Gertjan van Noord
COLING
2010
13 years 19 hour ago
Varro: An Algorithm and Toolkit for Regular Structure Discovery in Treebanks
The Varro toolkit is a system for identifying and counting a major class of regularity in treebanks and annotated natural language data in the form of treestructures: frequently r...
Scott Martens
COLING
2010
13 years 19 hour ago
Global topology of word co-occurrence networks: Beyond the two-regime power-law
Word co-occurrence networks are one of the most common linguistic networks studied in the past and they are known to exhibit several interesting topological characteristics. In th...
Monojit Choudhury, Diptesh Chatterjee, Animesh Muk...