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NAACL
2003
13 years 4 months ago
Building lexical semantic representations for Natural Language instructions
We report on our work to automatically build a corpus of instructional text annotated with lexical semantics information. We have coupled the parser LCFLEX with a lexicon and onto...
Elena Terenzi, Barbara Di Eugenio
NAACL
2003
13 years 4 months ago
Automatically Predicting Information Quality in News Documents
We report here empirical results of a series of studies aimed at automatically predicting information quality in news documents. Multiple research methods and data analysis techni...
Rong Tang, Kwong Bor Ng, Tomek Strzalkowski, Paul ...
NAACL
2003
13 years 4 months ago
pre-CODIE--Crosslingual On-Demand Information Extraction
Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman
NAACL
2003
13 years 4 months ago
Example Selection for Bootstrapping Statistical Parsers
This paper investigates bootstrapping for statistical parsers to reduce their reliance on manually annotated training data. We consider both a mostly-unsupervised approach, co-tra...
Mark Steedman, Rebecca Hwa, Stephen Clark, Miles O...
NAACL
2003
13 years 4 months ago
Sentence Level Discourse Parsing using Syntactic and Lexical Information
We introduce two probabilistic models that can be used to identify elementary discourse units and build sentence-level discourse parse trees. The models use syntactic and lexical ...
Radu Soricut, Daniel Marcu
NAACL
2003
13 years 4 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Semantic Networks from Text using Leximancer
Leximancer is a software system for performing conceptual analysis of text data in a largely language independent manner. The system is modelled on Content Analysis and provides u...
Andrew E. Smith
NAACL
2003
13 years 4 months ago
Comma Restoration Using Constituency Information
Automatic restoration of punctuation from unpunctuated text has application in improving the fluency and applicability of speech recognition systems. We explore the possibility t...
Stuart M. Shieber, Xiaopeng Tao
NAACL
2003
13 years 4 months ago
Shallow Parsing with Conditional Random Fields
Conditional random fields for sequence labeling offer advantages over both generative models like HMMs and classifiers applied at each sequence position. Among sequence labeling...
Fei Sha, Fernando C. N. Pereira
NAACL
2003
13 years 4 months ago
A low-complexity, broad-coverage probabilistic Dependency Parser for English
Large-scale parsing is still a complex and timeconsuming process, often so much that it is infeasible in real-world applications. The parsing system described here addresses this ...
Gerold Schneider
NAACL
2003
13 years 4 months ago
A Hybrid Approach to Content Analysis for Automatic Essay Grading
We present CarmelTC, a novel hybrid text classification approach for automatic essay grading. Our evaluation demonstrates that the hybrid CarmelTC approach outperforms two “bag...
Carolyn Penstein Rosé, Antonio Roque, Dumis...