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ACL
2011
14 years 4 months ago
Event Discovery in Social Media Feeds
We present a novel method for record extraction from social streams such as Twitter. Unlike typical extraction setups, these environments are characterized by short, one sentence ...
Edward Benson, Aria Haghighi, Regina Barzilay
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EMNLP
2008
15 years 2 months ago
Latent-Variable Modeling of String Transductions with Finite-State Methods
String-to-string transduction is a central problem in computational linguistics and natural language processing. It occurs in tasks as diverse as name transliteration, spelling co...
Markus Dreyer, Jason Smith, Jason Eisner
80
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IJCNN
2006
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
Learning to Rank by Maximizing AUC with Linear Programming
— Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) is often used to evaluate ranking performance in binary classification problems. Several researchers have approached AUC optimization by approxi...
Kaan Ataman, W. Nick Street, Yi Zhang
98
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CIBCB
2005
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
The Homology Kernel: A Biologically Motivated Sequence Embedding into Euclidean Space
— Part of the challenge of modeling protein sequences is their discrete nature. Many of the most powerful statistical and learning techniques are applicable to points in a Euclid...
Eleazar Eskin, Sagi Snir
131
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PROPOR
2010
Springer
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15 years 7 months ago
Translating from Complex to Simplified Sentences
We address the problem of simplifying Portuguese texts at the sentence level treating it as a "translation task". We use the Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) framewo...
Lucia Specia