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ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Classifying French Verbs Using French and English Lexical Resources
We present a novel approach to the automatic acquisition of a Verbnet like classification of French verbs which involves the use (i) of a neural clustering method which associate...
Ingrid Falk, Claire Gardent, Jean-Charles Lamirel
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Prediction of Learning Curves in Machine Translation
Parallel data in the domain of interest is the key resource when training a statistical machine translation (SMT) system for a specific purpose. Since ad-hoc manual translation c...
Prasanth Kolachina, Nicola Cancedda, Marc Dymetman...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Learning for Joint Template Filling
This paper presents a joint model for template filling, where the goal is to automatically specify the fields of target relations such as seminar announcements or corporate acqu...
Einat Minkov, Luke S. Zettlemoyer
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
A System for Real-time Twitter Sentiment Analysis of 2012 U.S. Presidential Election Cycle
This paper describes a system for real-time analysis of public sentiment toward presidential candidates in the 2012 U.S. election as expressed on Twitter, a microblogging service....
Hao Wang, Dogan Can, Abe Kazemzadeh, Franço...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Authorship Attribution with Author-aware Topic Models
Authorship attribution deals with identifying the authors of anonymous texts. Building on our earlier finding that the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic model can be used t...
Yanir Seroussi, Fabian Bohnert, Ingrid Zukerman
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Fast Syntactic Analysis for Statistical Language Modeling via Substructure Sharing and Uptraining
Long-span features, such as syntax, can improve language models for tasks such as speech recognition and machine translation. However, these language models can be difficult to u...
Ariya Rastrow, Mark Dredze, Sanjeev Khudanpur
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Aspect Extraction through Semi-Supervised Modeling
Aspect extraction is a central problem in sentiment analysis. Current methods either extract aspects without categorizing them, or extract and categorize them using unsupervised t...
Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu 0001
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
ACCURAT Toolkit for Multi-Level Alignment and Information Extraction from Comparable Corpora
The lack of parallel corpora and linguistic resources for many languages and domains is one of the major obstacles for the further advancement of automated translation. A possible...
Marcis Pinnis, Radu Ion, Dan Stefanescu, Fangzhong...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
IRIS: a Chat-oriented Dialogue System based on the Vector Space Model
This system demonstration paper presents IRIS (Informal Response Interactive System), a chat-oriented dialogue system based on the vector space model framework. The system belongs...
Rafael E. Banchs, Haizhou Li
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Sentence Dependency Tagging in Online Question Answering Forums
Online forums are becoming a popular resource in the state of the art question answering (QA) systems. Because of its nature as an online community, it contains more updated knowl...
Zhonghua Qu, Yang Liu