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2012
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Spectral Learning of Latent-Variable PCFGs
We introduce a spectral learning algorithm for latent-variable PCFGs (Petrov et al., 2006). Under a separability (singular value) condition, we prove that the method provides cons...
Shay B. Cohen, Karl Stratos, Michael Collins, Dean...
ACL
2012
13 years 15 days ago
A Context-sensitive, Multi-faceted Model of Lexico-Conceptual Affect
Since we can ‘spin’ words and concepts to suit our affective needs, context is a major determinant of the perceived affect of a word or concept. We view this re-profiling as a...
Tony Veale
ACL
2012
13 years 15 days ago
Unsupervised Semantic Role Induction with Global Role Ordering
We propose a probabilistic generative model for unsupervised semantic role induction, which integrates local role assignment decisions and a global role ordering decision in a uni...
Nikhil Garg, James Henserdon
ACL
2012
13 years 15 days ago
Extracting and modeling durations for habits and events from Twitter
We seek to automatically estimate typical durations for events and habits described in Twitter tweets. A corpus of more than 14 million tweets containing temporal duration informa...
Jennifer Williams, Graham Katz
ACL
2012
13 years 15 days ago
Combining Word-Level and Character-Level Models for Machine Translation Between Closely-Related Languages
We propose several techniques for improving statistical machine translation between closely-related languages with scarce resources. We use character-level translation trained on ...
Preslav Nakov, Jörg Tiedemann