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EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
NLP on Spoken Documents Without ASR
There is considerable interest in interdisciplinary combinations of automatic speech recognition (ASR), machine learning, natural language processing, text classification and info...
Mark Dredze, Aren Jansen, Glen Coppersmith, Ken Wa...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Hashing-Based Approaches to Spelling Correction of Personal Names
We propose two hashing-based solutions to the problem of fast and effective personal names spelling correction in People Search applications. The key idea behind our methods is to...
Raghavendra Udupa, Shaishav Kumar
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Handling Noisy Queries in Cross Language FAQ Retrieval
Recent times have seen a tremendous growth in mobile based data services that allow people to use Short Message Service (SMS) to access these data services. In a multilingual soci...
Danish Contractor, Govind Kothari, Tanveer A. Faru...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Self-Training with Products of Latent Variable Grammars
We study self-training with products of latent variable grammars in this paper. We show that increasing the quality of the automatically parsed data used for self-training gives h...
Zhongqiang Huang, Mary P. Harper, Slav Petrov
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic Discovery of Manner Relations and its Applications
This paper presents a method for the automatic discovery of MANNER relations from text. An extended definition of MANNER is proposed, including restrictions on the sorts of concep...
Eduardo Blanco, Dan I. Moldovan
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Detecting Domain Changes in Streams
Domain adaptation, the problem of adapting a natural language processing system trained in one domain to perform well in a different domain, has received significant attention. Th...
Mark Dredze, Tim Oates, Christine D. Piatko
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Modeling Organization in Student Essays
Automated essay scoring is one of the most important educational applications of natural language processing. Recently, researchers have begun exploring methods of scoring essays ...
Isaac Persing, Alan Davis, Vincent Ng
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Jointly Modeling Aspects and Opinions with a MaxEnt-LDA Hybrid
Discovering and summarizing opinions from online reviews is an important and challenging task. A commonly-adopted framework generates structured review summaries with aspects and ...
Wayne Xin Zhao, Jing Jiang, Hongfei Yan, Xiaoming ...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
An Efficient Algorithm for Unsupervised Word Segmentation with Branching Entropy and MDL
This paper proposes a fast and simple unsupervised word segmentation algorithm that utilizes the local predictability of adjacent character sequences, while searching for a leaste...
Valentin Zhikov, Hiroya Takamura, Manabu Okumura
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Resolving Event Noun Phrases to Their Verbal Mentions
Event Anaphora Resolution is an important task for cascaded event template extraction and other NLP study. Previous study only touched on event pronoun resolution. In this paper, ...
Bin Chen, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan