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ACL
2015
10 years 5 days ago
Perceptually Grounded Selectional Preferences
Selectional preferences (SPs) are widely used in NLP as a rich source of semantic information. While SPs have been traditionally induced from textual data, human lexical acquisiti...
Ekaterina Shutova, Niket Tandon, Gerard de Melo
ACL
2015
10 years 5 days ago
Reducing infrequent-token perplexity via variational corpora
Recurrent neural network (RNN) is recognized as a powerful language model (LM). We investigate deeper into its performance portfolio, which performs well on frequent grammatical p...
Yusheng Xie, Pranjal Daga, Yu Cheng, Kunpeng Zhang...
ACL
2015
10 years 5 days ago
Modeling Argument Strength in Student Essays
While recent years have seen a surge of interest in automated essay grading, including work on grading essays with respect to particular dimensions such as prompt adherence, coher...
Isaac Persing, Vincent Ng
ACL
2015
10 years 5 days ago
Learning the Semantics of Manipulation Action
In this paper we present a formal computational framework for modeling manipulation actions. The introduced formalism leads to semantics of manipulation action and has application...
Yezhou Yang, Yiannis Aloimonos, Cornelia Fermü...
ACL
2015
10 years 5 days ago
NEED4Tweet: A Twitterbot for Tweets Named Entity Extraction and Disambiguation
In this demo paper, we present NEED4Tweet, a Twitterbot for named entity extraction (NEE) and disambiguation (NED) for Tweets. The straightforward application of state-of-the-art ...
Mena B. Habib, Maurice van Keulen