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ACL
2015
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How Far are We from Fully Automatic High Quality Grammatical Error Correction?
In this paper, we first explore the role of inter-annotator agreement statistics in grammatical error correction and conclude that they are less informative in fields where ther...
Christopher Bryant, Hwee Tou Ng
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ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Semantic Interpretation of Superlative Expressions via Structured Knowledge Bases
This paper addresses a novel task of semantically analyzing the comparative constructions inherent in attributive superlative expressions against structured knowledge bases (KBs)....
Sheng Zhang, Yansong Feng, Songfang Huang, Kun Xu,...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
A Hierarchical Knowledge Representation for Expert Finding on Social Media
Expert finding on social media benefits both individuals and commercial services. In this paper, we exploit a 5-level tree representation to model the posts on social media and ...
Yanran Li, Wenjie Li, Sujian Li
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Predicting Valence-Arousal Ratings of Words Using a Weighted Graph Method
Compared to the categorical approach that represents affective states as several discrete classes (e.g., positive and negative), the dimensional approach represents affective stat...
Liang-Chih Yu, Jin Wang, K. Robert Lai, Xue-jie Zh...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Structured Training for Neural Network Transition-Based Parsing
We present structured perceptron training for neural network transition-based dependency parsing. We learn the neural network representation using a gold corpus augmented by a lar...
David Weiss, Chris Alberti, Michael Collins, Slav ...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
TR9856: A Multi-word Term Relatedness Benchmark
Measuring word relatedness is an important ingredient of many NLP applications. Several datasets have been developed in order to evaluate such measures. The main drawback of exist...
Ran Levy, Liat Ein-Dor, Shay Hummel, Ruty Rinott, ...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Text to 3D Scene Generation with Rich Lexical Grounding
The ability to map descriptions of scenes to 3D geometric representations has many applications in areas such as art, education, and robotics. However, prior work on the text to 3...
Angel X. Chang, Will Monroe, Manolis Savva, Christ...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Feature Optimization for Constituent Parsing via Neural Networks
The performance of discriminative constituent parsing relies crucially on feature engineering, and effective features usually have to be carefully selected through a painful manua...
Zhiguo Wang, Haitao Mi, Nianwen Xue
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Learning Dynamic Feature Selection for Fast Sequential Prediction
We present paired learning and inference algorithms for significantly reducing computation and increasing speed of the vector dot products in the classifiers that are at the hea...
Emma Strubell, Luke Vilnis, Kate Silverstein, Andr...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Building a Semantic Parser Overnight
How do we build a semantic parser in a new domain starting with zero training examples? We introduce a new methodology for this setting: First, we use a simple grammar to generate...
Yushi Wang, Jonathan Berant, Percy Liang