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EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
The Influence of Argument Structure on Semantic Role Assignment
We present a data and error analysis for semantic role labelling. In a first experiment, we build a generic statistical model for semantic role assignment in the FrameNet paradigm...
Sebastian Padó, Gemma Boleda
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Calibrating Features for Semantic Role Labeling
This paper takes a critical look at the features used in the semantic role tagging literature and show that the information in the input, generally a syntactic parse tree, has yet...
Nianwen Xue, Martha Palmer
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Chinese Part-of-Speech Tagging: One-at-a-Time or All-at-Once? Word-Based or Character-Based?
Chinese part-of-speech (POS) tagging assigns one POS tag to each word in a Chinese sentence. However, since words are not demarcated in a Chinese sentence, Chinese POS tagging req...
Hwee Tou Ng, Jin Kiat Low
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Paragraph Identification: A Study across Languages and Domains
In this paper we investigate whether paragraphs can be identified automatically in different languages and domains. We propose a machine learning approach which exploits textual a...
Caroline Sporleder, Mirella Lapata
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
NP Bracketing by Maximum Entropy Tagging and SVM Reranking
We perform Noun Phrase Bracketing by using a local, maximum entropy-based tagging model, which produces bracketing hypotheses. These hypotheses are subsequently fed into a reranki...
Hal Daumé III, Daniel Marcu
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Active Learning and the Total Cost of Annotation
Active learning (AL) promises to reduce the cost of annotating labeled datasets for trainable human language technologies. Contrary to expectations, when creating labeled training...
Jason Baldridge, Miles Osborne
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Adaptive Language and Translation Models for Interactive Machine Translation
We describe experiments carried out with adaptive language and translation models in the context of an interactive computer-assisted translation program. We developed cache-based ...
Laurent Nepveu, Guy Lapalme, Philippe Langlais, Ge...
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
A New Approach for English-Chinese Named Entity Alignment
Traditional word alignment approaches cannot come up with satisfactory results for Named Entities. In this paper, we propose a novel approach using a maximum entropy model for nam...
Donghui Feng, Yajuan Lü, Ming Zhou
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
VerbOcean: Mining the Web for Fine-Grained Semantic Verb Relations
Broad-coverage repositories of semantic relations between verbs could benefit many NLP tasks. We present a semi-automatic method for extracting fine-grained semantic relations bet...
Timothy Chklovski, Patrick Pantel
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
On Log-Likelihood-Ratios and the Significance of Rare Events
We address the issue of judging the significance of rare events as it typically arises in statistical naturallanguage processing. We first define a general approach to the problem...
Robert C. Moore