Statistical models in machine translation exhibit spurious ambiguity. That is, the probability of an output string is split among many distinct derivations (e.g., trees or segment...
Mining bilingual data (including bilingual sentences and terms1 ) from the Web can benefit many NLP applications, such as machine translation and cross language information retrie...
Long Jiang, Shiquan Yang, Ming Zhou, Xiaohua Liu, ...
In this paper we present a simplified shallow semantic parsing approach to learning the scope of negation (SoN). This is done by formulating it as a shallow semantic parsing probl...
We present novel kernels based on structured and unstructured features for reranking the N-best hypotheses of conditional random fields (CRFs) applied to entity extraction. The fo...
Truc-Vien T. Nguyen, Alessandro Moschitti, Giusepp...
Nested event structures are a common occurrence in both open domain and domain specific extraction tasks, e.g., a “crime” event can cause a “investigation” event, which c...
David McClosky, Mihai Surdeanu, Christopher D. Man...