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EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
LTAG Dependency Parsing with Bidirectional Incremental Construction
In this paper, we first introduce a new architecture for parsing, bidirectional incremental parsing. We propose a novel algorithm for incremental construction, which can be applie...
Libin Shen, Aravind K. Joshi
EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Question Classification using Head Words and their Hypernyms
Question classification plays an important role in question answering. Features are the key to obtain an accurate question classifier. In contrast to Li and Roth (2002)'s app...
Zhiheng Huang, Marcus Thint, Zengchang Qin
EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Transliteration as Constrained Optimization
This paper introduces a new method for identifying named-entity (NE) transliterations in bilingual corpora. Recent works have shown the advantage of discriminative approaches to t...
Dan Goldwasser, Dan Roth
EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Multilingual Subjectivity Analysis Using Machine Translation
Although research in other languages is increasing, much of the work in subjectivity analysis has been applied to English data, mainly due to the large body of electronic resource...
Carmen Banea, Rada Mihalcea, Janyce Wiebe, Samer H...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Seeded Discovery of Base Relations in Large Corpora
Relationship discovery is the task of identifying salient relationships between named entities in text. We propose novel approaches for two sub-tasks of the problem: identifying t...
Nicholas Andrews, Naren Ramakrishnan
EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Improving Chinese Semantic Role Classification with Hierarchical Feature Selection Strategy
In recent years, with the development of Chinese semantically annotated corpus, such as Chinese Proposition Bank and Normalization Bank, the Chinese semantic role labeling (SRL) t...
Weiwei Ding, Baobao Chang
EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Stacking Dependency Parsers
We explore a stacked framework for learning to predict dependency structures for natural language sentences. A typical approach in graph-based dependency parsing has been to assum...
André F. T. Martins, Dipanjan Das, Noah A. ...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Revealing the Structure of Medical Dictations with Conditional Random Fields
Automatic processing of medical dictations poses a significant challenge. We approach the problem by introducing a statistical framework capable of identifying types and boundarie...
Jeremy Jancsary, Johannes Matiasek, Harald Trost
EMNLP
2008
13 years 5 months ago
Acquiring Domain-Specific Dialog Information from Task-Oriented Human-Human Interaction through an Unsupervised Learning
We describe an approach for acquiring the domain-specific dialog knowledge required to configure a task-oriented dialog system that uses human-human interaction data. The key aspe...
Ananlada Chotimongkol, Alexander I. Rudnicky