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ACL
2015
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Harnessing Context Incongruity for Sarcasm Detection
The relationship between context incongruity and sarcasm has been studied in linguistics. We present a computational system that harnesses context incongruity as a basis for sarca...
Aditya Joshi, Vinita Sharma, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
A Context-Aware Topic Model for Statistical Machine Translation
Lexical selection is crucial for statistical machine translation. Previous studies separately exploit sentence-level contexts and documentlevel topics for lexical selection, negle...
Jinsong Su, Deyi Xiong, Yang Liu 0005, Xianpei Han...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Inverted indexing for cross-lingual NLP
We present a novel, count-based approach to obtaining inter-lingual word representations based on inverted indexing of Wikipedia. We present experiments applying these representat...
Anders Søgaard, Zeljko Agic, Héctor ...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
WA-Continuum: Visualising Word Alignments across Multiple Parallel Sentences Simultaneously
Word alignment (WA) between a pair of sentences in the same or different languages is a key component of many natural language processing tasks. It is commonly used for identifyin...
David Steele, Lucia Specia
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Joint Models of Disagreement and Stance in Online Debate
Online debate forums present a valuable opportunity for the understanding and modeling of dialogue. To understand these debates, a key challenge is inferring the stances of the pa...
Dhanya Sridhar, James R. Foulds, Bert Huang, Lise ...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Weakly Supervised Models of Aspect-Sentiment for Online Course Discussion Forums
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are redefining the education system and transcending boundaries posed by traditional courses. With the increase in popularity of online course...
Arti Ramesh, Shachi H. Kumar, James R. Foulds, Lis...
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ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
A Neural Probabilistic Structured-Prediction Model for Transition-Based Dependency Parsing
Neural probabilistic parsers are attractive for their capability of automatic feature combination and small data sizes. A transition-based greedy neural parser has given better ac...
Hao Zhou, Yue Zhang, Shujian Huang, Jiajun Chen
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
A Simultaneous Recognition Framework for the Spoken Language Understanding Module of Intelligent Personal Assistant Software on
The intelligent personal assistant software such as the Apple’s Siri and Samsung’s S-Voice has been issued these days. This paper introduces a novel Spoken Language Understand...
Changsu Lee, Youngjoong Ko, Jungyun Seo
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Unifying Bayesian Inference and Vector Space Models for Improved Decipherment
We introduce into Bayesian decipherment a base distribution derived from similarities of word embeddings. We use Dirichlet multinomial regression (Mimno and McCallum, 2012) to lea...
Qing Dou, Ashish Vaswani, Kevin Knight, Chris Dyer