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NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Automatic Generation of Personalized Annotation Tags for Twitter Users
This paper introduces a system designed for automatically generating personalized annotation tags to label Twitter user's interests and concerns. We applied TFIDF ranking and...
Wei Wu, Bin Zhang, Mari Ostendorf
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Evaluation Metrics for the Lexical Substitution Task
We identify some problems of the evaluation metrics used for the English Lexical Substitution Task of SemEval-2007, and propose alternative metrics that avoid these problems, whic...
Sanaz Jabbari, Mark Hepple, Louise Guthrie
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Topic Models for Image Annotation and Text Illustration
Image annotation, the task of automatically generating description words for a picture, is a key component in various image search and retrieval applications. Creating image datab...
Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Improving the Multilingual User Experience of Wikipedia Using Cross-Language Name Search
Although Wikipedia has emerged as a powerful collaborative Encyclopedia on the Web, it is only partially multilingual as most of the content is in English and a small number of ot...
Raghavendra Udupa, Mitesh M. Khapra
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Unsupervised Model Adaptation using Information-Theoretic Criterion
In this paper we propose a novel general framework for unsupervised model adaptation. Our method is based on entropy which has been used previously as a regularizer in semi-superv...
Ariya Rastrow, Frederick Jelinek, Abhinav Sethy, B...
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Generating Expository Dialogue from Monologue: Motivation, Corpus and Preliminary Rules
Generating expository dialogue from monologue is a task that poses an interesting and rewarding challenge for Natural Language Processing. This short paper has three aims: firstly...
Paul Piwek, Svetlana Stoyanchev
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model
Coreference resolution is governed by syntactic, semantic, and discourse constraints. We present a generative, model-based approach in which each of these factors is modularly enc...
Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Interpretation and Transformation for Abstracting Conversations
Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Improving Phrase-Based Translation with Prototypes of Short Phrases
We investigate methods of generating additional bilingual phrase pairs for a phrasebased decoder by translating short sequences of source text. Because our translation task is mor...
Frank Liberato, Behrang Mohit, Rebecca Hwa
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech
Most work on language acquisition treats word segmentation--the identification of linguistic segments from continuous speech-and word learning--the mapping of those segments to me...
Bevan K. Jones, Mark Johnson, Michael C. Frank