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NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Dialogue-Oriented Review Summary Generation for Spoken Dialogue Recommendation Systems
In this paper we present an opinion summarization technique in spoken dialogue systems. Opinion mining has been well studied for years, but very few have considered its applicatio...
Jingjing Liu, Stephanie Seneff, Victor Zue
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Joint Inference for Knowledge Extraction from Biomedical Literature
Knowledge extraction from online repositories such as PubMed holds the promise of dramatically speeding up biomedical research and drug design. After initially focusing on recogni...
Hoifung Poon, Lucy Vanderwende
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Distributed Training Strategies for the Structured Perceptron
Perceptron training is widely applied in the natural language processing community for learning complex structured models. Like all structured prediction learning frameworks, the ...
Ryan T. McDonald, Keith Hall, Gideon Mann
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Word Sense Subjectivity for Cross-lingual Lexical Substitution
We explore the relation between word sense subjectivity and cross-lingual lexical substitution, following the intuition that good substitutions will transfer a word's (contex...
Fangzhong Su, Katja Markert
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Stream-based Translation Models for Statistical Machine Translation
Typical statistical machine translation systems are trained with static parallel corpora. Here we account for scenarios with a continuous incoming stream of parallel training data...
Abby Levenberg, Chris Callison-Burch, Miles Osborn...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Streaming First Story Detection with application to Twitter
With the recent rise in popularity and size of social media, there is a growing need for systems that can extract useful information from this amount of data. We address the probl...
Sasa Petrovic, Miles Osborne, Victor Lavrenko
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Extracting Glosses to Disambiguate Word Senses
Like most natural language disambiguation tasks, word sense disambiguation (WSD) requires world knowledge for accurate predictions. Several proxies for this knowledge have been in...
Weisi Duan, Alexander Yates
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Hitting the Right Paraphrases in Good Time
We present a random-walk-based approach to learning paraphrases from bilingual parallel corpora. The corpora are represented as a graph in which a node corresponds to a phrase, an...
Stanley Kok, Chris Brockett
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Subword Variation in Text Message Classification
For millions of people in less resourced regions of the world, text messages (SMS) provide the only regular contact with their doctor. Classifying messages by medical labels suppo...
Robert Munro, Christopher D. Manning
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Testing a Grammar Customization System with Sahaptin
I briefly describe a system for automatically creating an implemented grammar of a natural language based on answers to a web-based questionnaire, then present a grammar of Sahapt...
Scott Drellishak