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We investigate the problem of ordering medical events in unstructured clinical narratives by learning to rank them based on their time of occurrence. We represent each medical eve...
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2012
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2012
This work presents a first step to a general implementation of the Semantic-Script Theory of Humor (SSTH). Of the scarce amount of research in computational humor, no research ha...
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2012
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2012
We investigate how novel English-derived words (anglicisms) are used in a Germanlanguage Internet hip hop forum, and what factors contribute to their uptake.
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2012
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Some Statistical Machine Translation systems never see the light because the owner of the appropriate training data cannot release them, and the potential user of the system canno...
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2012
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In social psychology, it is generally accepted that one discloses more of his/her personal information to someone in a strong relationship. We present a computational framework fo...
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2012
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Extracting sentiment and topic lexicons is important for opinion mining. Previous works have showed that supervised learning methods are superior for this task. However, the perfo...
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2012
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We investigate the consistency of human assessors involved in summarization evaluation to understand its effect on system ranking and automatic evaluation techniques. Using Text A...
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2012
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We propose a latent variable model to enhance historical analysis of large corpora. This work extends prior work in topic modelling by incorporating metadata, and the interactions...
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2012
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2012
The dominant practice of statistical machine translation (SMT) uses the same Chinese word segmentation specification in both alignment and translation rule induction steps in buil...
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2012
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2012
We present a system for cross-lingual parse disambiguation, exploiting the assumption that the meaning of a sentence remains unchanged during translation and the fact that differe...