EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Information-extraction (IE) research typically focuses on clean-text inputs. However, an IE engine serving real applications yields many false alarms due to less-well-formed input...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present the first evaluation of the utility of automatic evaluation metrics on surface realizations of Penn Treebank data. Using outputs of the OpenCCG and XLE realizers, along...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present three novel methods of compactly storing very large n-gram language models. These methods use substantially less space than all known approaches and allow n-gram probab...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
In this paper, we conducted a systematic comparative analysis of language in different contexts of bursty topics, including web search, news media, blogging, and social bookmarkin...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
This paper studies the problem of mining entity translation, specifically, mining English and Chinese name pairs. Existing efforts can be categorized into (a) a transliterationbas...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Models of latent document semantics such as the mixture of multinomials model and Latent Dirichlet Allocation have received substantial attention for their ability to discover top...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We address the modeling, parameter estimation and search challenges that arise from the
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We reveal a previously unnoticed connection between dependency parsing and statistical machine translation (SMT), by formulating the dependency parsing task as a problem of word a...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present a machine learning approach for the task of ranking previously answered questions in a question repository with respect to their relevance to a new, unanswered referenc...
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We present a novel approach to distributionalonly, fully unsupervised, POS tagging, based on an adaptation of the EM algorithm for the estimation of a Gaussian mixture. In this ap...