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EMNLP
2006
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Quality Assessment of Large Scale Knowledge Resources
This paper presents an empirical evaluation of the quality of publicly available large-scale knowledge resources. The study includes a wide range of manually and automatically der...
Montse Cuadros, German Rigau
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Role Labeling via Instance-Based Learning
This paper demonstrates two methods to improve the performance of instancebased learning (IBL) algorithms for the problem of Semantic Role Labeling (SRL). Two IBL algorithms are u...
Chi-san Althon Lin, Tony C. Smith
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Relevance Feedback Models for Recommendation
We extended language modeling approaches in information retrieval (IR) to combine collaborative filtering (CF) and content-based filtering (CBF). Our approach is based on the anal...
Masao Utiyama, Mikio Yamamoto
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Feature Subsumption for Opinion Analysis
Lexical features are key to many approaches to sentiment analysis and opinion detection. A variety of representations have been used, including single words, multi-word Ngrams, ph...
Ellen Riloff, Siddharth Patwardhan, Janyce Wiebe
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Entity Annotation based on Inverse Index Operations
Entity annotation involves attaching a label such as `name' or `organization' to a sequence of tokens in a document. All the current rule-based and machine learningbased...
Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Sreeram Balakrishnan, Sachind...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Get out the vote: Determining support or opposition from Congressional floor-debate transcripts
We investigate whether one can determine from the transcripts of U.S. Congressional floor debates whether the speeches represent support of or opposition to proposed legislation. ...
Matt Thomas, Bo Pang, Lillian Lee
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Hybrid Markov/Semi-Markov Conditional Random Field for Sequence Segmentation
Markov order-1 conditional random fields (CRFs) and semi-Markov CRFs are two popular models for sequence segmentation and labeling. Both models have advantages in terms of the typ...
Galen Andrew
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Distributed Language Modeling for N-best List Re-ranking
Ying Zhang, Almut Silja Hildebrand, Stephan Vogel
EMNLP
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Priming Effects in Combinatory Categorial Grammar
This paper presents a corpus-based account of structural priming in human sentence processing, focusing on the role that syntactic representations play in such an account. We esti...
David Reitter, Julia Hockenmaier, Frank Keller