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NAACL
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Automatic Generation of Personalized Annotation Tags for Twitter Users
This paper introduces a system designed for automatically generating personalized annotation tags to label Twitter user's interests and concerns. We applied TFIDF ranking and...
Wei Wu, Bin Zhang, Mari Ostendorf
NAACL
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Evaluation Metrics for the Lexical Substitution Task
We identify some problems of the evaluation metrics used for the English Lexical Substitution Task of SemEval-2007, and propose alternative metrics that avoid these problems, whic...
Sanaz Jabbari, Mark Hepple, Louise Guthrie
NAACL
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Topic Models for Image Annotation and Text Illustration
Image annotation, the task of automatically generating description words for a picture, is a key component in various image search and retrieval applications. Creating image datab...
Yansong Feng, Mirella Lapata
NAACL
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Improving the Multilingual User Experience of Wikipedia Using Cross-Language Name Search
Although Wikipedia has emerged as a powerful collaborative Encyclopedia on the Web, it is only partially multilingual as most of the content is in English and a small number of ot...
Raghavendra Udupa, Mitesh M. Khapra
NAACL
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Unsupervised Model Adaptation using Information-Theoretic Criterion
In this paper we propose a novel general framework for unsupervised model adaptation. Our method is based on entropy which has been used previously as a regularizer in semi-superv...
Ariya Rastrow, Frederick Jelinek, Abhinav Sethy, B...
NAACL
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Generating Expository Dialogue from Monologue: Motivation, Corpus and Preliminary Rules
Generating expository dialogue from monologue is a task that poses an interesting and rewarding challenge for Natural Language Processing. This short paper has three aims: firstly...
Paul Piwek, Svetlana Stoyanchev
NAACL
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Coreference Resolution in a Modular, Entity-Centered Model
Coreference resolution is governed by syntactic, semantic, and discourse constraints. We present a generative, model-based approach in which each of these factors is modularly enc...
Aria Haghighi, Dan Klein
NAACL
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Interpretation and Transformation for Abstracting Conversations
Gabriel Murray, Giuseppe Carenini, Raymond T. Ng
NAACL
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Improving Phrase-Based Translation with Prototypes of Short Phrases
We investigate methods of generating additional bilingual phrase pairs for a phrasebased decoder by translating short sequences of source text. Because our translation task is mor...
Frank Liberato, Behrang Mohit, Rebecca Hwa
NAACL
2010
14 years 10 months ago
Learning Words and Their Meanings from Unsegmented Child-directed Speech
Most work on language acquisition treats word segmentation--the identification of linguistic segments from continuous speech-and word learning--the mapping of those segments to me...
Bevan K. Jones, Mark Johnson, Michael C. Frank