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ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Demonstration of IlluMe: Creating Ambient According to Instant Message Logs
We present IlluMe, a software tool pack which creates a personalized ambient using the music and lighting. IlluMe includes an emotion analysis software, the small space ambient li...
Lun-Wei Ku, Cheng-Wei Sun, Ya-Hsin Hsueh
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervized Word Segmentation: the Case for Mandarin Chinese
In this paper, we present an unsupervized segmentation system tested on Mandarin Chinese. Following Harris's Hypothesis in Kempe (1999) and Tanaka-Ishii's (2005) reformu...
Pierre Magistry, Benoît Sagot
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Discriminative Strategies to Integrate Multiword Expression Recognition and Parsing
The integration of multiword expressions in a parsing procedure has been shown to improve accuracy in an artificial context where such expressions have been perfectly pre-identiļ...
Matthieu Constant, Anthony Sigogne, Patrick Watrin
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Finding Bursty Topics from Microblogs
Microblogs such as Twitter reflect the general public’s reactions to major events. Bursty topics from microblogs reveal what events have attracted the most online attention. Al...
Qiming Diao, Jing Jiang, Feida Zhu, Ee-Peng Lim
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Polarity Consistency Checking for Sentiment Dictionaries
Polarity classification of words is important for applications such as Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis. A number of sentiment word/sense dictionaries have been manually or ...
Eduard C. Dragut, Hong Wang, Clement T. Yu, A. Pra...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Detecting Semantic Equivalence and Information Disparity in Cross-lingual Documents
We address a core aspect of the multilingual content synchronization task: the identification of novel, more informative or semantically equivalent pieces of information in two d...
Yashar Mehdad, Matteo Negri, Marcello Federico
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Heuristic Cube Pruning in Linear Time
We propose a novel heuristic algorithm for Cube Pruning running in linear time in the beam size. Empirically, we show a gain in running time of a standard machine translation syst...
Andrea Gesmundo, Giorgio Satta, James Henderson
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Joint Evaluation of Morphological Segmentation and Syntactic Parsing
We present novel metrics for parse evaluation in joint segmentation and parsing scenarios where the gold sequence of terminals is not known in advance. The protocol uses distance-...
Reut Tsarfaty, Joakim Nivre, Evelina Andersson
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
A Topic Similarity Model for Hierarchical Phrase-based Translation
Previous work using topic model for statistical machine translation (SMT) explore topic information at the word level. However, SMT has been advanced from word-based paradigm to p...
Xinyan Xiao, Deyi Xiong, Min Zhang, Qun Liu, Shoux...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Fast and Robust Part-of-Speech Tagging Using Dynamic Model Selection
This paper presents a novel way of improving POS tagging on heterogeneous data. First, two separate models are trained (generalized and domain-specific) from the same data set by...
Jinho D. Choi, Martha Palmer