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IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Chunking Strategy Towards Unknown Word Detection in Chinese Word Segmentation
This paper proposes a chunking strategy to detect unknown words in Chinese word segmentation. First, a raw sentence is pre-segmented into a sequence of word atoms 1 using a maximum...
Guodong Zhou
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Using Multiple Discriminant Analysis Approach for Linear Text Segmentation
Research on linear text segmentation has been an on-going focus in NLP for the last decade, and it has great potential for a wide range of applications such as document summarizati...
Jingbo Zhu, Na Ye, Xinzhi Chang, Wenliang Chen, Be...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Answering Definition Questions Using Web Knowledge Bases
This paper presents a definition question answering approach, which is capable of mining textual definitions from large collections of documents. In order to automatically identify...
Zhushuo Zhang, Yaqian Zhou, Xuanjing Huang, Lide W...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Mining Inter-Entity Semantic Relations Using Improved Transductive Learning
This paper studies the problem of mining relational data hidden in natural language text. In particular, it approaches the relation classification problem with the strategy of tra...
Zhu Zhang
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
An Empirical Study on Language Model Adaptation Using a Metric of Domain Similarity
Abstract. This paper presents an empirical study on four techniques of language model adaptation, including a maximum a posteriori (MAP) method and three discriminative training mo...
Wei Yuan, Jianfeng Gao, Hisami Suzuki
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Term Extraction Based on Perplexity of Compound Words
Many methods of term extraction have been discussed in terms of their accuracy on huge corpora. However, when we try to apply various methods that derive from frequency to a small ...
Minoru Yoshida, Hiroshi Nakagawa
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Parsing the Penn Chinese Treebank with Semantic Knowledge
Abstract. We build a class-based selection preference sub-model to incorporate external semantic knowledge from two Chinese electronic semantic dictionaries. This sub-model is comb...
Deyi Xiong, Shuanglong Li, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin, Y...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Machine Translation Based on Constraint-Based Synchronous Grammar
This paper proposes a variation of synchronous grammar based on the formalism of context-free grammar by generalizing the first component of productions that models the source text...
Fai Wong, Dong-Cheng Hu, Yu-Hang Mao, Ming-Chui Do...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Rule Based Syllabification Algorithm for Sinhala
This paper presents a study of Sinhala syllable structure and an algorithm for identifying syllables in Sinhala words. After a thorough study of the Syllable structure and linguis...
Ruvan Weerasinghe, Asanka Wasala, Kumudu Gamage
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
PP-Attachment Disambiguation Boosted by a Gigantic Volume of Unambiguous Examples
We present a PP-attachment disambiguation method based on a gigantic volume of unambiguous examples extracted from raw corpus. The unambiguous examples are utilized to acquire prec...
Daisuke Kawahara, Sadao Kurohashi