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EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
It's a Contradiction - no, it's not: A Case Study using Functional Relations
Contradiction Detection (CD) in text is a difficult NLP task. We investigate CD over functions (e.g., BornIn(Person)=Place), and present a domain-independent algorithm that automa...
Alan Ritter, Stephen Soderland, Doug Downey, Oren ...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 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
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Question Classification using Head Words and their Hypernyms
Question classification plays an important role in question answering. Features are the key to obtain an accurate question classifier. In contrast to Li and Roth (2002)'s app...
Zhiheng Huang, Marcus Thint, Zengchang Qin
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EMNLP
2008
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A Generative Model for Parsing Natural Language to Meaning Representations
In this paper, we present an algorithm for learning a generative model of natural language sentences together with their formal meaning representations with hierarchical structure...
Wei Lu, Hwee Tou Ng, Wee Sun Lee, Luke S. Zettlemo...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 11 months ago
Ranking Reader Emotions Using Pairwise Loss Minimization and Emotional Distribution Regression
This paper presents two approaches to ranking reader emotions of documents. Past studies assign a document to a single emotion category, so their methods cannot be applied directl...
Kevin Hsin-Yih Lin, Hsin-Hsi Chen