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ACL
2015
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Semantic Role Labeling Improves Incremental Parsing
Incremental parsing is the task of assigning a syntactic structure to an input sentence as it unfolds word by word. Incremental parsing is more difficult than fullsentence parsin...
Ioannis Konstas, Frank Keller
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Towards Debugging Sentiment Lexicons
Central to many sentiment analysis tasks are sentiment lexicons (SLs). SLs exhibit polarity inconsistencies. Previous work studied the problem of checking the consistency of an SL...
Andrew Schneider, Eduard C. Dragut
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
IWNLP: Inverse Wiktionary for Natural Language Processing
Nowadays, there are a lot of natural language processing pipelines that are based on training data created by a few experts. This paper examines how the proliferation of the inter...
Matthias Liebeck, Stefan Conrad 0001
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
KB-LDA: Jointly Learning a Knowledge Base of Hierarchy, Relations, and Facts
Many existing knowledge bases (KBs), including Freebase, Yago, and NELL, rely on a fixed ontology, given as an input to the system, which defines the data to be cataloged in the...
Dana Movshovitz-Attias, William W. Cohen
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ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Non-distributional Word Vector Representations
Data-driven representation learning for words is a technique of central importance in NLP. While indisputably useful as a source of features in downstream tasks, such vectors tend...
Manaal Faruqui, Chris Dyer
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Learning Representations for Text-level Discourse Parsing
In the proposed doctoral work we will design an end-to-end approach for the challenging NLP task of text-level discourse parsing. Instead of depending on mostly hand-engineered sp...
Gregor Weiss
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Learning Lexical Embeddings with Syntactic and Lexicographic Knowledge
We propose two improvements on lexical association used in embedding learning: factorizing individual dependency relations and using lexicographic knowledge from monolingual dicti...
Tong Wang, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Graeme Hirst
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
An analysis of the user occupational class through Twitter content
Social media content can be used as a complementary source to the traditional methods for extracting and studying collective social attributes. This study focuses on the predictio...
Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro, Vasileios Lampos, Nikolaos...
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ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
Automatic Spontaneous Speech Grading: A Novel Feature Derivation Technique using the Crowd
In this paper, we address the problem of evaluating spontaneous speech using a combination of machine learning and crowdsourcing. Machine learning techniques inadequately solve th...
Vinay Shashidhar, Nishant Pandey, Varun Aggarwal
ACL
2015
9 years 11 months ago
End-to-end Argument Generation System in Debating
We introduce an argument generation system in debating, one that is based on sentence retrieval. Users can specify a motion such as This house should ban gambling, and a stance on...
Misa Sato, Kohsuke Yanai, Toshinori Miyoshi, Toshi...