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EMNLP
2010
13 years 1 months ago
Top-Down Nearly-Context-Sensitive Parsing
We present a new syntactic parser that works left-to-right and top down, thus maintaining a fully-connected parse tree for a few alternative parse hypotheses. All of the commonly ...
Eugene Charniak
EMNLP
2010
13 years 1 months ago
Collective Cross-Document Relation Extraction Without Labelled Data
We present a novel approach to relation extraction that integrates information across documents, performs global inference and requires no labelled text. In particular, we tackle ...
Limin Yao, Sebastian Riedel, Andrew McCallum
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Nouns are Vectors, Adjectives are Matrices: Representing Adjective-Noun Constructions in Semantic Space
We propose an approach to adjective-noun composition (AN) for corpus-based distributional semantics that, building on insights from theoretical linguistics, represents nouns as ve...
Marco Baroni, Roberto Zamparelli
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Multi-Level Structured Models for Document-Level Sentiment Classification
In this paper, we investigate structured models for document-level sentiment classification. When predicting the sentiment of a subjective document (e.g., as positive or negative)...
Ainur Yessenalina, Yisong Yue, Claire Cardie
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic Comma Insertion for Japanese Text Generation
This paper proposes a method for automatically inserting commas into Japanese texts. In Japanese sentences, commas play an important role in explicitly separating the constituents...
Masaki Murata, Tomohiro Ohno, Shigeki Matsubara
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Positional Language Models for Clinical Information Retrieval
The PECO framework is a knowledge representation for formulating clinical questions. Queries are decomposed into four aspects, which are Patient-Problem (P), Exposure (E), Compari...
Florian Boudin, Jian-Yun Nie, Martin Dawes
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Better Punctuation Prediction with Dynamic Conditional Random Fields
This paper focuses on the task of inserting punctuation symbols into transcribed conversational speech texts, without relying on prosodic cues. We investigate limitations associat...
Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Evaluating the Impact of Alternative Dependency Graph Encodings on Solving Event Extraction Tasks
In state-of-the-art approaches to information extraction (IE), dependency graphs constitute the fundamental data structure for syntactic structuring and subsequent knowledge elici...
Ekaterina Buyko, Udo Hahn
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Enhancing Mention Detection Using Projection via Aligned Corpora
The research question treated in this paper is centered on the idea of exploiting rich resources of one language to enhance the performance of a mention detection system of anothe...
Yassine Benajiba, Imed Zitouni
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Training Continuous Space Language Models: Some Practical Issues
Using multi-layer neural networks to estimate the probabilities of word sequences is a promising research area in statistical language modeling, with applications in speech recogn...
Hai Son Le, Alexandre Allauzen, Guillaume Wisniews...