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ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Knowledge Portability with Semantic Expansion of Ontology Labels
Our research focuses on the multilingual enhancement of ontologies that, often represented only in English, need to be translated in different languages to enable knowledge access...
Mihael Arcan, Marco Turchi, Paul Buitelaar
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Environment-Driven Lexicon Induction for High-Level Instructions
We focus on the task of interpreting complex natural language instructions to a robot, in which we must ground high-level commands such as microwave the cup to low-level actions s...
Dipendra Kumar Misra, Kejia Tao, Percy Liang, Ashu...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Tackling Sparsity, the Achilles Heel of Social Networks: Language Model Smoothing via Social Regularization
Online social networks nowadays have the worldwide prosperity, as they have revolutionized the way for people to discover, to share, and to diffuse information. Social networks ar...
Rui Yan, Xiang Li, Mengwen Liu, Xiaohua Hu
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
An Effective Neural Network Model for Graph-based Dependency Parsing
Most existing graph-based parsing models rely on millions of hand-crafted features, which limits their generalization ability and slows down the parsing speed. In this paper, we p...
Wenzhe Pei, Tao Ge, Baobao Chang
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Multiple Many-to-Many Sequence Alignment for Combining String-Valued Variables: A G2P Experiment
We investigate multiple many-to-many alignments as a primary step in integrating supplemental information strings in string transduction. Besides outlining DP based solutions to t...
Steffen Eger
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Synthetic Word Parsing Improves Chinese Word Segmentation
We present a novel solution to improve the performance of Chinese word segmentation (CWS) using a synthetic word parser. The parser analyses the internal structure of words, and a...
Fei Cheng, Kevin Duh, Yuji Matsumoto
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Graph parsing with s-graph grammars
A key problem in semantic parsing with graph-based semantic representations is graph parsing, i.e. computing all possible analyses of a given graph according to a grammar. This pr...
Jonas Groschwitz, Alexander Koller, Christoph Teic...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Towards a Contextual Pragmatic Model to Detect Irony in Tweets
This paper proposes an approach to capture the pragmatic context needed to infer irony in tweets. We aim to test the validity of two main hypotheses: (1) the presence of negations...
Jihen Karoui, Farah Benamara, Véronique Mor...
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Feature Selection in Kernel Space: A Case Study on Dependency Parsing
Given a set of basic binary features, we propose a new L1 norm SVM based feature selection method that explicitly selects the features in their polynomial or tree kernel spaces. T...
Xian Qian, Yang Liu 0004
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Using Tweets to Help Sentence Compression for News Highlights Generation
We explore using relevant tweets of a given news article to help sentence compression for generating compressive news highlights. We extend an unsupervised dependency-tree based s...
Zhongyu Wei, Yang Liu 0033, Chen Li, Wei Gao