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EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Improving Web Search Relevance with Semantic Features
Most existing information retrieval (IR) systems do not take much advantage of natural language processing (NLP) techniques due to the complexity and limited observed effectivenes...
Yumao Lu, Fuchun Peng, Gilad Mishne, Xing Wei, Ben...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Quantifier Scope Disambiguation Using Extracted Pragmatic Knowledge: Preliminary Results
It is well known that pragmatic knowledge is useful and necessary in many difficult language processing tasks, but because this knowledge is difficult to acquire and process autom...
Prakash Srinivasan, Alexander Yates
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
An Empirical Study of Semi-supervised Structured Conditional Models for Dependency Parsing
This paper describes an empirical study of high-performance dependency parsers based on a semi-supervised learning approach. We describe an extension of semisupervised structured ...
Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki, Xavier Carreras, Micha...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Fully Lexicalising CCGbank with Hat Categories
We introduce an extension to CCG that allows form and function to be represented simultaneously, reducing the proliferation of modifier categories seen in standard CCG analyses. W...
Matthew Honnibal, James R. Curran
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
The Feature Subspace Method for SMT System Combination
Recently system combination has been shown to be an effective way to improve translation quality over single machine translation systems. In this paper, we present a simple and ef...
Nan Duan, Mu Li, Tong Xiao, Ming Zhou
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Accuracy-Based Scoring for DOT: Towards Direct Error Minimization for Data-Oriented Translation
In this work we present a novel technique to rescore fragments in the Data-Oriented Translation model based on their contribution to translation accuracy. We describe three new re...
Daniel Galron, Sergio Penkale, Andy Way, I. Dan Me...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Cross-Cultural Analysis of Blogs and Forums with Mixed-Collection Topic Models
This paper presents preliminary results on the detection of cultural differences from people's experiences in various countries from two perspectives: tourists and locals. Ou...
Michael Paul, Roxana Girju
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Accurate Semantic Class Classifier for Coreference Resolution
There have been considerable attempts to incorporate semantic knowledge into coreference resolution systems: different knowledge sources such as WordNet and Wikipedia have been us...
Zhiheng Huang, Guangping Zeng, Weiqun Xu, Asli &Cc...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Using Word-Sense Disambiguation Methods to Classify Web Queries by Intent
Three methods are proposed to classify queries by intent (CQI), e.g., navigational, informational, commercial, etc. Following mixed-initiative dialog systems, search engines shoul...
Emily Pitler, Ken Ward Church