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COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Going Beyond Traditional QA Systems: Challenges and Keys in Opinion Question Answering
The treatment of factual data has been widely studied in different areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). However, processing subjective information still poses important cha...
Alexandra Balahur, Ester Boldrini, Andrés M...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Exploring the Data-Driven Prediction of Prepositions in English
Prepositions in English are a well-known challenge for language learners, and the computational analysis of preposition usage has attracted significant attention. Such research ge...
Anas Elghafari, Detmar Meurers, Holger Wunsch
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
A Vector Space Model for Subjectivity Classification in Urdu aided by Co-Training
The goal of this work is to produce a classifier that can distinguish subjective sentences from objective sentences for the Urdu language. The amount of labeled data required for ...
Smruthi Mukund, Rohini K. Srihari
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Instance Sense Induction from Attribute Sets
This paper investigates the new problem of automatic sense induction for instance names using automatically extracted attribute sets. Several clustering strategies and data source...
Ricardo Martin-Brualla, Enrique Alfonseca, Marius ...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
An Evaluation Framework for Plagiarism Detection
We present an evaluation framework for plagiarism detection.1 The framework provides performance measures that address the specifics of plagiarism detection, and the PAN-PC-10 cor...
Martin Potthast, Benno Stein, Alberto Barró...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Bridging Topic Modeling and Personalized Search
This work presents a study to bridge topic modeling and personalized search. A probabilistic topic model is used to extract topics from user search history. These topics can be se...
Wei Song, Yu Zhang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
A Learnable Constraint-based Grammar Formalism
Lexicalized Well-Founded Grammar (LWFG) is a recently developed syntacticsemantic grammar formalism for deep language understanding, which balances expressiveness with provable le...
Smaranda Muresan
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Best Topic Word Selection for Topic Labelling
This paper presents the novel task of best topic word selection, that is the selection of the topic word that is the best label for a given topic, as a means of enhancing the inte...
Jey Han Lau, David Newman, Sarvnaz Karimi, Timothy...
COLING
2010
12 years 11 months ago
Finite-state Scriptural Translation
We use robust and fast Finite-State Machines (FSMs) to solve scriptural translation problems. We describe a phonetico-morphotactic pivot UIT (universal intermediate transcription)...
M. G. Abbas Malik, Christian Boitet, Pushpak Bhatt...