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ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Automatic disambiguation of English puns
Traditional approaches to word sense disambiguation (WSD) rest on the assumption that there exists a single, unambiguous communicative intention underlying every word in a documen...
Tristan Miller, Iryna Gurevych
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Transition-based Neural Constituent Parsing
Constituent parsing is typically modeled by a chart-based algorithm under probabilistic context-free grammars or by a transition-based algorithm with rich features. Previous model...
Taro Watanabe, Eiichiro Sumita
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Learning Cross-lingual Word Embeddings via Matrix Co-factorization
A joint-space model for cross-lingual distributed representations generalizes language-invariant semantic features. In this paper, we present a matrix cofactorization framework fo...
Tianze Shi, Zhiyuan Liu, Yang Liu, Maosong Sun
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
SOLAR: Scalable Online Learning Algorithms for Ranking
Traditional learning to rank methods learn ranking models from training data in a batch and offline learning mode, which suffers from some critical limitations, e.g., poor scalab...
Jialei Wang, Ji Wan, Yongdong Zhang, Steven C. H. ...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Detecting Deceptive Groups Using Conversations and Network Analysis
Deception detection has been formulated as a supervised binary classification problem on single documents. However, in daily life, millions of fraud cases involve detailed conver...
Dian Yu, Yulia Tyshchuk, Heng Ji, William A. Walla...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Using prosodic annotations to improve coreference resolution of spoken text
This paper is the first to examine the effect of prosodic features on coreference resolution in spoken discourse. We test features from different prosodic levels and investigate ...
Ina Roesiger, Arndt Riester
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Linguistic Template Extraction for Recognizing Reader-Emotion and Emotional Resonance Writing Assistance
In this paper, we propose a flexible principle-based approach (PBA) for reader-emotion classification and writing assistance. PBA is a highly automated process that learns emoti...
Yung-Chun Chang, Cen-Chieh Chen, Yu-Lun Hsieh, Chi...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Bring you to the past: Automatic Generation of Topically Relevant Event Chronicles
An event chronicle provides people with an easy and fast access to learn the past. In this paper, we propose the first novel approach to automatically generate a topically releva...
Tao Ge, Wenzhe Pei, Heng Ji, Sujian Li, Baobao Cha...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
A Strategic Reasoning Model for Generating Alternative Answers
We characterize a class of indirect answers to yes/no questions, alternative answers, where information is given that is not directly asked about, but which might nonetheless addr...
Jon Scott Stevens, Anton Benz, Sebastian Reuß...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Point Process Modelling of Rumour Dynamics in Social Media
Rumours on social media exhibit complex temporal patterns. This paper develops a model of rumour prevalence using a point process, namely a log-Gaussian Cox process, to infer an u...
Michal Lukasik, Trevor Cohn, Kalina Bontcheva