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EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
What's in a name? In some languages, grammatical gender
This paper presents an investigation of the relation between words and their gender in two gendered languages: German and Romanian. Gender is an issue that has long preoccupied li...
Vivi Nastase, Marius Popescu
EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Combining Collocations, Lexical and Encyclopedic Knowledge for Metonymy Resolution
This paper presents a supervised method for resolving metonymies. We enhance a commonly used feature set with features extracted based on collocation information from corpora, gen...
Vivi Nastase, Michael Strube
EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
A Compact Forest for Scalable Inference over Entailment and Paraphrase Rules
A large body of recent research has been investigating the acquisition and application of applied inference knowledge. Such knowledge may be typically captured as entailment rules...
Roy Bar-Haim, Jonathan Berant, Ido Dagan
EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Improved Statistical Machine Translation for Resource-Poor Languages Using Related Resource-Rich Languages
We propose a novel language-independent approach for improving statistical machine translation for resource-poor languages by exploiting their similarity to resource-rich ones. Mo...
Preslav Nakov, Hwee Tou Ng
EMNLP
2009
14 years 7 months ago
Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation
This paper investigates a new task, subjectivity word sense disambiguation (SWSD), which is to automatically determine which word instances in a corpus are being used with subject...
Cem Akkaya, Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea