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ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
A Methodology for Evaluating Timeline Generation Algorithms based on Deep Semantic Units
Timeline generation is a summarisation task which transforms a narrative, roughly chronological input text into a set of timestamped summary sentences, each expressing an atomic h...
Sandro Bauer, Simone Teufel
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Transferring Coreference Resolvers with Posterior Regularization
We propose a cross-lingual framework for learning coreference resolvers for resource-poor target languages, given a resolver in a source language. Our method uses word-aligned bit...
André F. T. Martins
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Measuring idiosyncratic interests in children with autism
A defining symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the presence of restricted and repetitive activities and interests, which can surface in language as a perseverative focus...
Masoud Rouhizadeh, Emily Prud'hommeaux, Jan P. H. ...
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ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Multi-Pass Decoding With Complex Feature Guidance for Statistical Machine Translation
In Statistical Machine Translation, some complex features are still difficult to integrate during decoding and usually used through the reranking of the k-best hypotheses produce...
Benjamin Marie, Aurélien Max
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Question Answering over Freebase with Multi-Column Convolutional Neural Networks
Answering natural language questions over a knowledge base is an important and challenging task. Most of existing systems typically rely on hand-crafted features and rules to cond...
Li Dong, Furu Wei, Ming Zhou, Ke Xu
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ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
A System Demonstration of a Framework for Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training
In this paper, we demonstrate a system implementation of a framework for computer assisted pronunciation training for second language learner (L2). This framework supports an iter...
Renlong Ai, Feiyu Xu
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Learning Relational Features with Backward Random Walks
The path ranking algorithm (PRA) has been recently proposed to address relational classification and retrieval tasks at large scale. We describe Cor-PRA, an enhanced system that ...
Ni Lao, Einat Minkov, William W. Cohen
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Multi-level Translation Quality Prediction with QuEst++
This paper presents QUEST++ , an open source tool for quality estimation which can predict quality for texts at word, sentence and document level. It also provides pipelined proce...
Lucia Specia, Gustavo Paetzold, Carolina Scarton
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Inducing Word and Part-of-Speech with Pitman-Yor Hidden Semi-Markov Models
We propose a nonparametric Bayesian model for joint unsupervised word segmentation and part-of-speech tagging from raw strings. Extending a previous model for word segmentation, o...
Kei Uchiumi, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Daichi Mochihashi
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Sentiment-Aspect Extraction based on Restricted Boltzmann Machines
Aspect extraction and sentiment analysis of reviews are both important tasks in opinion mining. We propose a novel sentiment and aspect extraction model based on Restricted Boltzm...
Linlin Wang, Kang Liu, Zhu Cao, Jun Zhao 0001, Ger...