Abbreviated words carry critical information in the literature of many special domains. This paper reports our research in recognizing dotted abbreviations with MaxEnt model. The k...
The most critical issue in generating and recognizing paraphrases is development of wide-coverage paraphrase knowledge. Previous work on paraphrase acquisition has collected lexic...
Identifying discourse relations in a text is essential for various tasks in Natural Language Processing, such as automatic text summarization, question-answering, and dialogue gene...
Hugo Hernault, Danushka Bollegala, Mitsuru Ishizuk...
This paper presents a novel statistical model for automatic identification of English baseNP. It uses two steps: the Nbest Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagging and baseNP identification g...
Strong indications of perspective can often come from collocations of arbitrary length; for example, someone writing get the government out of my X is typically expressing a conse...
Eric Hardisty, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Philip Resni...