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EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Natural Language Generation with Tree Conditional Random Fields
This paper presents an effective method for generating natural language sentences from their underlying meaning representations. The method is built on top of a hybrid tree repres...
Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Joint Learning of Preposition Senses and Semantic Roles of Prepositional Phrases
The sense of a preposition is related to the semantics of its dominating prepositional phrase. Knowing the sense of a preposition could help to correctly classify the semantic rol...
Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng, Tanja Schultz
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Toward Completeness in Concept Extraction and Classification
Many algorithms extract terms from text together with some kind of taxonomic classification (is-a) link. However, the general approaches used today, and specifically the methods o...
Eduard H. Hovy, Zornitsa Kozareva, Ellen Riloff
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Human-competitive tagging using automatic keyphrase extraction
This paper connects two research areas: automatic tagging on the web and statistical keyphrase extraction. First, we analyze the quality of tags in a collaboratively created folks...
Olena Medelyan, Eibe Frank, Ian H. Witten
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Comparison of Model Free versus Model Intensive Approaches to Sentence Compression
This work introduces a model free approach to sentence compression, which grew out of ideas from Nomoto (2008), and examines how it compares to a state-of-art model intensive appr...
Tadashi Nomoto
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Sentiment Analysis of Conditional Sentences
This paper studies sentiment analysis of conditional sentences. The aim is to determine whether opinions expressed on different topics in a conditional sentence are positive, nega...
Ramanathan Narayanan, Bing Liu, Alok N. Choudhary
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Rich Feature Vector for Protein-Protein Interaction Extraction from Multiple Corpora
Because of the importance of proteinprotein interaction (PPI) extraction from text, many corpora have been proposed with slightly differing definitions of proteins and PPI. Since ...
Makoto Miwa, Rune Sætre, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-i...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
How well does active learning
Machine involvement has the potential to speed up language documentation. We assess this potential with timed annotation experiments that consider annotator expertise, example sel...
Jason Baldridge, Alexis Palmer
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Graphical Models over Multiple Strings
We study graphical modeling in the case of stringvalued random variables. Whereas a weighted finite-state transducer can model the probabilistic relationship between two strings, ...
Markus Dreyer, Jason Eisner
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Unsupervised Tokenization for Machine Translation
Training a statistical machine translation starts with tokenizing a parallel corpus. Some languages such as Chinese do not incorporate spacing in their writing system, which creat...
Tagyoung Chung, Daniel Gildea