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ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
NiuTrans: An Open Source Toolkit for Phrase-based and Syntax-based Machine Translation
We present a new open source toolkit for phrase-based and syntax-based machine translation. The toolkit supports several state-of-the-art models developed in statistical machine t...
Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu, Hao Zhang, Qiang Li
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
UWN: A Large Multilingual Lexical Knowledge Base
We present UWN, a large multilingual lexical knowledge base that describes the meanings and relationships of words in over 200 languages. This paper explains how link prediction, ...
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Distributional Semantics in Technicolor
Our research aims at building computational models of word meaning that are perceptually grounded. Using computer vision techniques, we build visual and multimodal distributional ...
Elia Bruni, Gemma Boleda, Marco Baroni, Nam-Khanh ...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Subgroup Detector: A System for Detecting Subgroups in Online Discussions
We present Subgroup Detector, a system for analyzing threaded discussions and identifying the attitude of discussants towards one another and towards the discussion topic. The sys...
Amjad Abu-Jbara, Dragomir R. Radev
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Computational Approaches to Sentence Completion
This paper studies the problem of sentencelevel semantic coherence by answering SATstyle sentence completion questions. These questions test the ability of algorithms to distingui...
Geoffrey Zweig, John C. Platt, Christopher Meek, C...
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Specifying Viewpoint and Information Need with Affective Metaphors: A System Demonstration of the Metaphor-Magnet Web App/Servic
Metaphors pervade our language because they are elastic enough to allow a speaker to express an affective viewpoint on a topic without committing to a specific meaning. This balan...
Tony Veale, Guofu Li
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
An Exploration of Forest-to-String Translation: Does Translation Help or Hurt Parsing?
Syntax-based translation models that operate on the output of a source-language parser have been shown to perform better if allowed to choose from a set of possible parses. In thi...
Hui Zhang, David Chiang
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
A Graph-based Cross-lingual Projection Approach for Weakly Supervised Relation Extraction
Although researchers have conducted extensive studies on relation extraction in the last decade, supervised approaches are still limited because they require large amounts of trai...
Seokhwan Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
The Creation of a Corpus of English Metalanguage
Metalanguage is an essential linguistic mechanism which allows us to communicate explicit information about language itself. However, it has been underexamined in research in lang...
Shomir Wilson
ACL
2012
13 years 6 months ago
Syntactic Stylometry for Deception Detection
Most previous studies in computerized deception detection have relied only on shallow lexico-syntactic patterns. This paper investigates syntactic stylometry for deception detecti...
Song Feng, Ritwik Banerjee, Yejin Choi