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NAACL
2010
14 years 7 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
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NAACL
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Tree Edit Models for Recognizing Textual Entailments, Paraphrases, and Answers to Questions
We describe tree edit models for representing sequences of tree transformations involving complex reordering phenomena and demonstrate that they offer a simple, intuitive, and eff...
Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith
NAACL
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Bayesian Inference for Finite-State Transducers
We describe a Bayesian inference algorithm that can be used to train any cascade of weighted finite-state transducers on end-toend data. We also investigate the problem of automat...
David Chiang, Jonathan Graehl, Kevin Knight, Adam ...
NAACL
2010
14 years 7 months ago
Good Question! Statistical Ranking for Question Generation
We address the challenge of automatically generating questions from reading materials for educational practice and assessment. Our approach is to overgenerate questions, then rank...
Michael Heilman, Noah A. Smith
ACL
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Paraphrase Identification as Probabilistic Quasi-Synchronous Recognition
We present a novel approach to deciding whether two sentences hold a paraphrase relationship. We employ a generative model that generates a paraphrase of a given sentence, and we ...
Dipanjan Das, Noah A. Smith