A method for automatic plot analysis of narrative texts that uses components of both traditional symbolic analysis of natural language and statistical machine-learning is presente...
Active learning (AL) promises to reduce the cost of annotating labeled datasets for trainable human language technologies. Contrary to expectations, when creating labeled training...
We present a novel discriminative approach to parsing inspired by the large-margin criterion underlying support vector machines. Our formulation uses a factorization analogous to ...
Ben Taskar, Dan Klein, Mike Collins, Daphne Koller...
We present an approach for the joint extraction of entities and relations in the context of opinion recognition and analysis. We identify two types of opinion-related entities -- ...
Anticipating the availability of large questionanswer datasets, we propose a principled, datadriven Instance-Based approach to Question Answering. Most question answering systems ...