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IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Nearest-Neighbor Method for Resolving PP-Attachment Ambiguity
We present a nearest-neighbor algorithm for resolving prepositional phrase attachment ambiguities. Its performance is significantly higher than previous corpus-based methods for P...
Shaojun Zhao, Dekang Lin
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Combining Labeled and Unlabeled Data for Learning Cross-Document Structural Relationships
Multi-document discourse analysis has emerged with the potential of improving various NLP applications. Based on the newly proposed Cross-document Structure Theory (CST), this pap...
Zhu Zhang, Dragomir R. Radev
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Statistical Substring Reduction in Linear Time
We study the problem of efficiently removing equal frequency n-gram substrings from an n-gram set, formally called Statistical Substring Reduction (SSR). SSR is a useful operatio...
Xueqiang Lü Le Zhang, Junfeng Hu
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Systematic Construction of Hierarchical Classifier in SVM-Based Text Categorization
In a text categorization task, classification on some hierarchy of classes shows better results than the case without the hierarchy. In current environments where large amount of ...
Yongwook Yoon, Changki Lee, Gary Geunbae Lee
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
SVM-Based Biological Named Entity Recognition Using Minimum Edit-Distance Feature Boosted by Virtual Examples
In this paper, we propose two indepentent solutions to resolve the problems of many different spelling variants and of lack of annotated corpus for training, which are two main di...
Eunji Yi, Gary Geunbae Lee, Yu Song, Soo-Jun Park
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Improving Noun Phrase Coreference Resolution by Matching Strings
In this paper we present a noun phrase coreference resolution system which aims to enhance the identification of the coreference realized by string matching. For this purpose, we ...
Xiaofeng Yang, Guodong Zhou, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Tagging Complex NEs with MaxEnt Models: Layered Structures Versus Extended Tagset
The paper discusses two policies for recognizing NEs with complex structures by maximum entropy models. One policy is to develop cascaded MaxEnt models at different levels. The ot...
Deyi Xiong, Hongkui Yu, Qun Liu
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Iterative CKY Parsing for Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars
This paper presents an iterative CKY parsing algorithm for probabilistic contextfree grammars (PCFG). This algorithm enables us to prune unnecessary edges produced during parsing,...
Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Jun-ichi Tsujii
IJCNLP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Window-Based Method for Information Retrieval
In this paper, a series of window-based methods is proposed for information retrieval. Compared with traditional tf-idf model, our approaches are based on two new key notions. The ...
Qianli Jin, Jun Zhao, Bo Xu