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ACL
2015
10 years 6 days ago
Non-distributional Word Vector Representations
Data-driven representation learning for words is a technique of central importance in NLP. While indisputably useful as a source of features in downstream tasks, such vectors tend...
Manaal Faruqui, Chris Dyer
ACL
2015
10 years 6 days ago
Learning Representations for Text-level Discourse Parsing
In the proposed doctoral work we will design an end-to-end approach for the challenging NLP task of text-level discourse parsing. Instead of depending on mostly hand-engineered sp...
Gregor Weiss
ACL
2015
10 years 6 days ago
Learning Lexical Embeddings with Syntactic and Lexicographic Knowledge
We propose two improvements on lexical association used in embedding learning: factorizing individual dependency relations and using lexicographic knowledge from monolingual dicti...
Tong Wang, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Graeme Hirst
ACL
2015
10 years 6 days ago
An analysis of the user occupational class through Twitter content
Social media content can be used as a complementary source to the traditional methods for extracting and studying collective social attributes. This study focuses on the predictio...
Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Vasileios Lampos, Nikolaos...
ACL
2015
10 years 6 days ago
Automatic Spontaneous Speech Grading: A Novel Feature Derivation Technique using the Crowd
In this paper, we address the problem of evaluating spontaneous speech using a combination of machine learning and crowdsourcing. Machine learning techniques inadequately solve th...
Vinay Shashidhar, Nishant Pandey, Varun Aggarwal