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EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Recognizing Implicit Discourse Relations in the Penn Discourse Treebank
We present an implicit discourse relation classifier in the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB). Our classifier considers the context of the two arguments, word pair information, as we...
Ziheng Lin, Min-Yen Kan, Hwee Tou Ng
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Empirical Exploitation of Click Data for Task Specific Ranking
There have been increasing needs for task specific rankings in web search such as rankings for specific query segments like long queries, time-sensitive queries, navigational quer...
Anlei Dong, Yi Chang, Shihao Ji, Ciya Liao, Xin Li...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
An Alternative to Head-Driven Approaches for Parsing a (Relatively) Free Word-Order Language
Applying statistical parsers developed for English to languages with freer wordorder has turned out to be harder than expected. This paper investigates the adequacy of different s...
Reut Tsarfaty, Khalil Sima'an, Remko Scha
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Real-time decision detection in multi-party dialogue
We describe a process for automatically detecting decision-making sub-dialogues in multi-party, human-human meetings in real-time. Our basic approach to decision detection involve...
Matthew Frampton, Jia Huang, Trung H. Bui, Stanley...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Feature-Rich Translation by Quasi-Synchronous Lattice Parsing
We present a machine translation framework that can incorporate arbitrary features of both input and output sentences. The core of the approach is a novel decoder based on lattice...
Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Joint Language Model With Fine-grain Syntactic Tags
We present a scalable joint language model designed to utilize fine-grain syntactic tags. We discuss challenges such a design faces and describe our solutions that scale well to l...
Denis Filimonov, Mary P. Harper
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Using Morphological and Syntactic Structures for Chinese Opinion Analysis
This paper employs morphological structures and relations between sentence segments for opinion analysis on words and sentences. Chinese words are classified into eight morphologi...
Lun-Wei Ku, Ting-Hao Huang, Hsin-Hsi Chen
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Study on the Semantic Relatedness of Query and Document Terms in Information Retrieval
The use of lexical semantic knowledge in information retrieval has been a field of active study for a long time. Collaborative knowledge bases like Wikipedia and Wiktionary, which...
Christof Müller, Iryna Gurevych
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Entity Extraction via Ensemble Semantics
Combining information extraction systems yields significantly higher quality resources than each system in isolation. In this paper, we generalize such a mixing of sources and fea...
Marco Pennacchiotti, Patrick Pantel