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tnt a statistical partofspeech tagger trigramsntags is an efficient statistical partofspeech tagger contrary to claims found elsewhere in the literature we argue that a tagger based on markov models performs at least as well as other current approaches including the maximum entropy framework a recent comparison has e... | A00-1031 | tnt a statistical partofspeech taggertrigramsntags is an efficient statistical partofspeech taggercontrary to claims found elsewhere in the literature we argue that a tagger based on markov models performs at least as well as other current approaches including the maximum entropy frameworka recent comparison has even... |
sentence reduction for automatic text summarization figure 2 sample sentence and parse tree we have an input sentence t dg b4a because both the human and the program made decisions two out of the five decisions agree so the rate is 25 the rate defined as man and the program have made the same decision success rate t... | A00-1043 | sentence reduction for automatic text summarizationwe present a novel sentence reduction system for automatically removing extraneous phrases from sentences that are extracted from a document for summarization purposethe system uses multiple sources of knowledge to decide which phrases in an extracted sentence can be r... |
advances in domain independent linear text segmentation this paper describes a method for linear text segmentation which is twice as accurate and over seven times as fast as the stateoftheart intersentence similarity is replaced by rank in the local context boundary locations are discovered by divisive clustering even... | A00-2004 | advances in domain independent linear text segmentationthis paper describes a method for linear text segmentation which is twice as accurate and over seven times as fast as the stateoftheart intersentence similarity is replaced by rank in the local contextboundary locations are discovered by divisive clusteringwe desig... |
a simple approach to building ensembles of naive bayesian classifiers for word sense disambiguation this paper presents a corpusbased approach to word sense disambiguation that builds an ensemble of naive bayesian classifiers each of which is based on lexical features that represent cooccurring words in varying sized w... | A00-2009 | a simple approach to building ensembles of naive bayesian classifiers for word sense disambiguationthis paper presents a corpusbased approach to word sense disambiguation that builds an ensemble of naive bayesian classifiers each of which is based on lexical features that represent cooccurring words in varying sized wi... |
a maximumentropyinspired parser we present a new parser for parsing down to penn treebank style parse trees that achieves 901 average precisionrecall for sentences of 40 and less and for of length 100 and less when trained and tested on the previously established 59101517 quotstandardquot sections of the wall street jo... | A00-2018 | a maximumentropyinspired parserwe present a new parser for parsing down to penn treebank style parse trees that achieves 901 average precisionrecall for sentences of length 40 and less and 895 for sentences of length 100 and less when trained and tested on the previously established 59101517 standard sections of the wa... |
an unsupervised method for detecting grammatical errors we present an unsupervised method for detecting grammatical errors by inferring negative evidence from edited textual corpora the system was developed and tested using essaylength responses to prompts on the test of english as a foreign language the errorrecognit... | A00-2019 | an unsupervised method for detecting grammatical errorswe present an unsupervised method for detecting grammatical errors by inferring negative evidence from edited textual corporathe system was developed and tested using essaylength responses to prompts on the test of english as a foreign language the errorrecognition... |
cut and paste based text summarization we present a cut and paste based text summarizer which uses operations derived from an analysis of human written abstracts the summarizer edits extracted sentences using reduction to remove inessential phrases and combination to merge resulting phrases together as coherent sentenc... | A00-2024 | cut and paste based text summarizationwe present a cut and paste based text summarizer which uses operations derived from an analysis of human written abstractsthe summarizer edits extracted sentences using reduction to remove inessential phrases and combination to merge resuiting phrases together as coherent sentences... |
trainable methods for surface natural language generation we present three systems for surface natural language generation that are trainable from annotated corpora the first two systems called nlg1 and nlg2 require a corpus marked only with domainspecific semantic attributes while the last system called nlg3 requires ... | A00-2026 | trainable methods for surface natural language generationwe present three systems for surface natural language generation that are trainable from annotated corporathe first two systems called nlg1 and nlg2 require a corpus marked only with domainspecific semantic attributes while the last system called nlg3 requires a ... |
a novel use of statistical parsing to extract information from text since 1995 a few statistical parsing algorithms have demonstrated a breakthrough in parsing accuracy as measured against the upenn treebank as a gold standard in this paper we report adapting a lexic al ized probabilistic contextfree parser to informat... | A00-2030 | a novel use of statistical parsing to extract information from textsince 1995 a few statistical parsing algorithms have demonstrated a breakthrough in parsing accuracy as measured against the upenn treebank as a gold standardin this paper we report adapting a lexicalized probabilistic contextfree parser to information ... |
assigning function tags to parsed text and vincent j della pietra 1996 a maximum entropy approach to natural lanprocessing linguistics parsing sentences using statistical information gathered from a treebank was first examined a decade ago in and is by now a fairly wellstudied problem but to date the end product of ... | A00-2031 | assigning function tags to parsed textit is generally recognized that the common nonterminal labels for syntactic constituents do not exhaust the syntactic and semantic information one would like about parts of a syntactic treefor example the penn treebank gives each constituent zero or more function tags indicating s... |
using semantic preferences to identify verbal participation in role switching alternations we propose a method for identifying diathesis alternations where a particular argument type is seen in slots which have different grammatical roles in the alternating forms the method uses selectional preferences acquired as prob... | A00-2034 | using semantic preferences to identify verbal participation in role switching alternationswe propose a method for identifying diathesis alternations where a particular argument type is seen in slots which have different grammatical roles in the alternating formsthe method uses selectional preferences acquired as probab... |
a stochastic parts program and noun phrase parser for unrestricted text there are five missing brackets which are indicated as quotquot or quot1quot words with a second np tag were identified as proper nouns in a prepass aat formerap topnn aidenn toin attorneynpnp generalnpnp edwinnpnp meesenpnp intercededvbd toto exte... | A88-1019 | a stochastic parts program and noun phrase parser for unrestricted textour part of speech tagger can now input unrestricted text and assign each word with the most likely part of speech with fairly reasonable accuracy and efficiencyour partofspeech tagger performs not only partofspeech analysis but it also identities t... |
applied text generation this paper presents the joyce system as an example of a fullyimplemented applicationoriented text generation systemjoyce covers the whole range of tasks associated with text generation from content selection to morphological processingit was developped as part of the interface of the software d... | A92-1006 | applied text generationwe divide tasks in the generation process into three stages the text planner has access only to information about communicative goals the discourse context and semantics and generates a nonlinguistic representation of text structure and content the sentence planner chooses abstract linguistic res... |
a practical partofspeech tagger we present an implementation of a partofspeech tagger based on a hidden markov model the methodology enables robust and accurate tagging with few resource requirements only a lexicon and some unlabeled training text are required accuracy exceeds 96 we describe implementation strategies a... | A92-1018 | a practical partofspeech taggerwe present an implementation of a partofspeech tagger based on a hidden markov modelthe methodology enables robust and accurate tagging with few resource requirementsonly a lexicon and some unlabeled training text are requiredaccuracy exceeds 96we describe implementation strategies and op... |
a simple rulebased part of speech tagger automatic part of speech tagging is an area of natural language processing where statistical techniques have been more successful than rulebased methods in this paper we present a simple rulebased part of speech tagger which automatically acquires its rules and tags with accurac... | A92-1021 | a simple rulebased part of speech taggerautomatic part of speech tagging is an area of natural language processing where statistical techniques have been more successful than rulebased methodsin this paper we present a simple rulebased part of speech tagger which automatically acquires its rules and tags with accuracy ... |
termight identifying and translating technical terminology 1993 we that part of speech tagging and word alignment could have an important role in glossary construction for translation glossaries are extremely important for translation how would microsoft or some other software vendor want the term quotcharacter menuquo... | A94-1006 | termight identifying and translating technical terminologywe propose a semiautomatic tool termight that helps professional translators and terminologists identify technical terms and their translationsthe tool makes use of partofspeech tagging and wordalignment programs to extract candidate terms and their translations... |
does baumwelch reestimation help taggers in part of speech tagging by hidden markov model a statistical model is used to assign grammatical categories to words in a text early work in the field relied on a corpus which had been tagged by a human annotator to train the model recently cutting al suggest that training can... | A94-1009 | does baumwelch reestimation help taggersin part of speech tagging by hidden markov model a statistical model is used to assign grammatical categories to words in a textearly work in the field relied on a corpus which had been tagged by a human annotator to train the modelmore recently cutting et al suggest that traini... |
three heads are better than one machinereadable dictionary the lexicons used by the kbmt modules a large set of usergenerated bilingual glossaries as well as a gazetteer and a list of proper and organization namesthe outputs from these engines are recorded in a chart whose positions correspond to words in the source... | A94-1016 | three heads are better than onemachine translation systems do not currently achieve optimal quality translation on free text whatever translation method they employour hypothesis is that the quality of mt will improve if an mt environment uses output from a variety of mt systems working on the same textin the latest v... |
a maximum entropy approach to identifying sentence boundaries we present a trainable model for identifying sentence boundaries in raw text given a corpus annotated with sentence boundaries our model learns to classify each occurrence of and as either a valid or invalid sentence boundary the training procedure requires... | A97-1004 | a maximum entropy approach to identifying sentence boundarieswe present a trainable model for identify ing sentence boundaries in raw textgiven a corpus annotated with sentence boundaries our model learns to classify each occurrence of and as either a valid or invalid sentence boundarythe training procedure require... |
a nonprojective dependency parser we describe a practical parser for unrestricted dependencies the parser creates links between words and names the links according to their syntactic functions we first describe the older constraint grammar parser where many of the ideas come from then we proceed to describe the central... | A97-1011 | a nonprojective dependency parserwe describe a practical parser for unrestricted dependenciesthe parser creates links between words and names the links according to their syntactic functionswe first describe the older constraint grammar parser where many of the ideas come fromthen we proceed to describe the central ide... |
an annotation scheme for free word order languages we describe an annotation scheme and a tool developed for creating linguistically annotated corpora for nonconfigurational languages since the requirements for such a formalism differ from those posited for configurational languages several features have been added inf... | A97-1014 | an annotation scheme for free word order languageswe describe an annotation scheme and a tool developed for creating linguistically annotated corpora for nonconfigurational languagessince the requirements for such a formalism differ from those posited for configurational languages several features have been added influ... |
nymble a highperformance learning namefinder this paper presents a statistical learned approach to finding names and other nonrecursive entities in text using a variant of the standard hidden markov model we present our justification for the problem and our approach a detailed discussion of the model itself and finall... | A97-1029 | nymble a highperformance learning namefinderthis paper presents a statistical learned approach to finding names and other nonrecursive entities in text using a variant of the standard hidden markov modelwe present our justification for the problem and our approach a detailed discussion of the model itself and finally ... |
disambiguation of proper names in text trieving information from full text using linguisknowledge in of the fifteenth online meeting new york may text processing applications such as machine translation systems information retrieval systems or naturallanguage understanding systems need to identify multiword expressions... | A97-1030 | disambiguation of proper names in textidentifying the occurrences of proper names in text and the entities they refer to can be a difficult task because of the manytomany mapping between names and their referentswe analyze the types of ambiguity structural and semantic that make the discovery of proper names difficul... |
a fast and portable realizer for text generation systems systems that generate natural language output as part of their interaction with a user have become a major area of research and developmenttypically natural language generation is divided into several phases namely text planning sentence planning and realizati... | A97-1039 | a fast and portable realizer for text generation systemswe release a surface realizer realpro and it is intended as offtheshelf plugin realizerour realpro surface realizer which produces a surface linguistic utterance |
automatic extraction of subcategorization from corpora of the system that are new the extractor classifier and evaluator the grammar consists of 455 phrase structure rule schemata in the format accepted by the parser operators it is hallow in that no atof which thetempt is made to fully analyse unbounded dependencies ... | A97-1052 | automatic extraction of subcategorization from corporawe describe a novel technique and implemented system for constructing a subcategorization dictionary from textual corporaeach dictionary entry encodes the relative frequency of occurrence of a comprehensive set of subcategorization classes for englishan initial expe... |
base noun phrase translation using web data and the them algorithm we consider here the problem of base noun phrase translation we propose a new method to perform the task for a given base np we first search its translation candidates from the web we next determine the possible translation from among the candidates usi... | C02-1011 | base noun phrase translation using web data and the them algorithmwe consider here the problem of base noun phrase translationwe propose a new method to perform the taskfor a given base np we first search its translation candidates from the webwe next determine the possible translation from among the candidates using o... |
efficient support vector classifiers for named entity recognition named entity recognition is a task in whichproper nouns and numerical information are extracted from documents and are classified into cat egories such as person organization and date it is a key technology of information extraction and opendomain quest... | C02-1054 | efficient support vector classifiers for named entity recognitionnamed entity recognition is a task in which proper nouns and numerical information are extracted from documents and are classified into categories such as person organization and dateit is a key technology of information extraction and opendomain questio... |
a graph model for unsupervised lexical acquisition this paper presents an unsupervised method forassembling semantic knowledge from a partof speech tagged corpus using graph algorithms the graph model is built by linking pairs of words which participate in particular syntacticrelationships we focus on the symmetric rel... | C02-1114 | a graph model for unsupervised lexical acquisitionthis paper presents an unsupervised method for assembling semantic knowledge from a partofspeech tagged corpus using graph algorithmsthe graph model is built by linking pairs of words which participate in particular syntactic relationshipswe focus on the symmetric relat... |
concept discovery from text broadcoverage lexical resources such as wordnet are extremely useful however they often include many rare senses while missing domainspecific senses we present a clustering algorithm called cbc that automatically discovers concepts from text it initially discovers a set of tight clusters ca... | C02-1144 | concept discovery from textbroadcoverage lexical resources such as wordnet are extremely usefulhowever they often include many rare senses while missing domainspecific senseswe present a clustering algorithm called cbc that automatically discovers concepts from textit initially discovers a set of tight clusters called... |
building a largescale annotated chinese corpus in this paper we address issues related to building a largescale chinese corpus we try to answer four questions how to speed up annotation how to maintain high annotation quality for what purposes is the corpus applicable and finally what future work we anticipate the ... | C02-1145 | building a largescale annotated chinese corpusin this paper we address issues related to building a largescale chinese corpuswe try to answer four questions how to speed up annotation how to maintain high annotation quality for what purposes is the corpus applicable and finally what future work we anticipate |
learning question classifiers in order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of texts one needs to un derstand the question to a level that allows determiningsome of the constraints the question imposes on a pos sible answer these constraints may include a semantic classification... | C02-1150 | learning question classifiersin order to respond correctly to a free form factual question given a large collection of texts one needs to understand the question to a level that allows determining some of the constraints the question imposes on a possible answerthese constraints may include a semantic classification of... |
deterministic dependency parsing of english text this paper presents a deterministic dependency parser based on memorybased learning which parses english text in linear time when trainedand evaluated on the wall street journal sec tion of the penn treebank the parser achieves a maximum attachment score of 871 unlikemos... | C04-1010 | deterministic dependency parsing of english textthis paper presents a deterministic dependency parser based on memorybased learning which parses english text in linear timewhen trained and evaluated on the wall street journal section of the penn treebank the parser achieves a maximum attachment score of 871unlike most ... |
efficient parsing of highly ambiguous contextfree grammars with bit vectors an efficient bitvectorbased ckystyle parser for contextfree parsing is presented the parser computes a compact parse forest representation of the complete set of possible analyses forlarge treebank grammars and long input sen tences the parser ... | C04-1024 | efficient parsing of highly ambiguous contextfree grammars with bit vectorsan efficient bitvectorbased ckystyle parser for contextfree parsing is presentedthe parser computes a compact parse forest representation of the complete set of possible analyses for large treebank grammars and long input sentencesthe parser use... |
the importance of supertagging for widecoverage ccg parsing this paper describes the role of supertagging in a widecoverage ccg parser which uses a loglinear model to select an analysis the supertagger reduces the derivation space over which model estimation is performed reducing the space required for discriminative t... | C04-1041 | the importance of supertagging for widecoverage ccg parsingthis paper describes the role of supertagging in a widecoverage ccg parser which uses a loglinear model to select an analysisthe supertagger reduces the derivation space over which model estimation is performed reducing the space required for discriminative tra... |
unsupervised construction of large paraphrase corpora exploiting massively parallel news sources we investigate unsupervised techniques for acquiring monolingual sentencelevel paraphrases from a corpus of temporally and topically clustered news articles collected from thousands of webbased news sources two techniques a... | C04-1051 | unsupervised construction of large paraphrase corpora exploiting massively parallel news sourceswe investigate unsupervised techniques for acquiring monolingual sentencelevel paraphrases from a corpus of temporally and topically clustered news articles collected from thousands of webbased news sourcestwo techniques are... |
language model adaptation for statistical machine translation via structured query models we explore unsupervised language model adaptation techniques for statistical machine translation the hypotheses from the machine translation output are converted into queries at different levels of representation power and used to... | C04-1059 | language model adaptation for statistical machine translation via structured query modelswe explore unsupervised language model adaptation techniques for statistical machine translationthe hypotheses from the machine translation output are converted into queries at different levels of representation power and used to e... |
orange a method for evaluating automatic evaluation metrics for machine translation comparisons of automatic evaluation metrics for machine translation are usually conducted on corpus level using correlation statistics such as pearsons product moment correlation coefficient or spearmans rank order correlation coefficie... | C04-1072 | orange a method for evaluating automatic evaluation metrics for machine translationcomparisons of automatic evaluation metrics for machine translation are usually conducted on corpus level using correlation statistics such as pearsons product moment correlation coefficient or spearmans rank order correlation coefficie... |
partofspeech tagging in context we present a new hmm tagger that exploits context on both sides of a word to be tagged and evaluate it in both the unsupervised and supervised case along the way we present the first comprehensive comparison of unsupervised methods for partofspeech tagging noting that published results t... | C04-1080 | partofspeech tagging in contextwe present a new hmm tagger that exploits context on both sides of a word to be tagged and evaluate it in both the unsupervised and supervised casealong the way we present the first comprehensive comparison of unsupervised methods for partofspeech tagging noting that published results to ... |
chinese segmentation and new word detection using conditional random fields chinese word segmentation is a difficult i am portant and widelystudied sequence modelingproblem this paper demonstrates the abil ity of linearchain conditional random fields to perform robust and accurate chinese word segmentation by providing... | C04-1081 | chinese segmentation and new word detection using conditional random fieldschinese word segmentation is a difficult important and widelystudied sequence modeling problemthis paper demonstrates the ability of linearchain conditional random fields to perform robust and accurate chinese word segmentation by providing a p... |
towards terascale semantic acquisition although vast amounts of textual data are freely available many nlp algorithms exploit only a minute percentage of it in this paper we study the challenges of working at the terascale we present an algorithm designed for the terascale for mining isa relations that achieves similar... | C04-1111 | towards terascale semantic acquisitionalthough vast amounts of textual data are freely available many nlp algorithms exploit only a minute percentage of itin this paper we study the challenges of working at the terascalewe present an algorithm designed for the terascale for mining isa relations that achieves similar pe... |
characterising measures of lexical distributional similarity this work investigates the variation in a words dis tributionally nearest neighbours with respect to the similarity measure used we identify one type ofvariation as being the relative frequency of the neighbour words with respect to the frequency of the targe... | C04-1146 | characterising measures of lexical distributional similaritythis work investigates the variation in a word distributionally nearest neighbours with respect to the similarity measure usedwe identify one type of variation as being the relative frequency of the neighbour words with respect to the frequency of the target w... |
widecoverage semantic representations from a ccg parser this paper shows how to construct semantic representations from the derivations producedby a widecoverage ccg parser unlike the dependency structures returned by the parser itself these can be used directly for semantic in terpretation we demonstrate that wellform... | C04-1180 | widecoverage semantic representations from a ccg parserthis paper shows how to construct semantic representations from the derivations produced by a widecoverage ccg parserunlike the dependency structures returned by the parser itself these can be used directly for semantic interpretationwe demonstrate that wellformed ... |
semantic role labeling via integer linear programming inference we present a system for the semantic role la beling task the system combines a machine learning technique with an inference procedurebased on integer linear programming that supports the incorporation of linguistic and struc tural constraints into the deci... | C04-1197 | semantic role labeling via integer linear programming inferencewe present a system for the semantic role labeling taskthe system combines a machine learning technique with an inference procedure based on integer linear programming that supports the incorporation of linguistic and structural constraints into the decisio... |
determining the sentiment of opinions identifying sentiments is a challenging problem we present a system that given a topic automatically finds the people who hold opinions about that topic and the sentiment of each opinion the system contains a module for determining word sentiment and another for combining sentimen... | C04-1200 | determining the sentiment of opinionsidentifying sentiments is a challenging problemwe present a system that given a topic automatically finds the people who hold opinions about that topic and the sentiment of each opinionthe system contains a module for determining word sentiment and another for combining sentiments ... |
sentence compression beyond word deletion in this paper we generalise the sentence compression task rather than sim ply shorten a sentence by deleting words or constituents as in previous work we rewrite it using additional operations such as substitution reordering and insertion we present a new corpus that is suitedt... | C08-1018 | sentence compression beyond word deletionin this paper we generalise the sentence compression taskrather than simply shorten a sentence by deleting words or constituents as in previous work we rewrite it using additional operations such as substitution reordering and insertionwe present a new corpus that is suited to o... |
a classifierbased approach to preposition and determiner error correction in l2 english in this paper we present an approach to the automatic identification and correction ofpreposition and determiner errors in non native english writing we show that models of use for these parts of speech can be learned with an accur... | C08-1022 | a classifierbased approach to preposition and determiner error correction in l2 englishin this paper we present an approach to the automatic identification and correction of preposition and determiner errors in nonnative english writingwe show that models of use for these parts of speech can be learned with an accurac... |
estimation of conditional probabilities with decision trees and an application to finegrained pos tagging we present a hmm partofspeech tag ging method which is particularly suited for pos tagsets with a large number of finegrained tags it is based on three ideas splitting of the pos tags into attributevectors and dec... | C08-1098 | estimation of conditional probabilities with decision trees and an application to finegrained pos taggingwe present a hmm partofspeech tagging method which is particularly suitedfor pos tagsets with a large number of finegrained tagsit is based on three ideas splitting of the pos tags into attribute vectors and decomp... |
learning entailment rules for unary templates most work on unsupervised entailment rule acquisition focused on rules between templates with two variables ignoring unary rules entailment rules betweentemplates with a single variable in this paper we investigate two approaches for unsupervised learning of such rules and... | C08-1107 | learning entailment rules for unary templatesmost work on unsupervised entailment rule acquisition focused on rules between templates with two variables ignoring unary rules entailment rules between templates with a single variablein this paper we investigate two approaches for unsupervised learning of such rules and ... |
the ups and downs of preposition error detection in esl writing in this paper we describe a methodologyfor detecting preposition errors in the writ ing of nonnative english speakers our system performs at 84 precision andclose to 19 recall on a large set of stu dent essays in addition we address the problem of annotati... | C08-1109 | the ups and downs of preposition error detection in esl writingin this paper we describe a methodology for detecting preposition errors in the writing of nonnative english speakersour system performs at 84 precision and close to 19 recall on a large set of student essaysin addition we address the problem of annotation ... |
a uniform approach to analogies synonyms antonyms and associations recognizing analogies synonyms anto nyms and associations appear to be fourdistinct tasks requiring distinct nlp al gorithms in the past the four tasks have been treated independently using a widevariety of algorithms these four seman tic classes howeve... | C08-1114 | a uniform approach to analogies synonyms antonyms and associationsrecognizing analogies synonyms antonyms and associations appear to be four distinct tasks requiring distinct nlp algorithmsin the past the four tasks have been treated independently using a wide variety of algorithmsthese four semantic classes however ar... |
top accuracy and fast dependency parsing is not a contradiction in addition to a high accuracy short parsing and training times are the most important properties of a parser however pars ing and training times are still relatively long to determine why we analyzed thetime usage of a dependency parser we il lustrate tha... | C10-1011 | top accuracy and fast dependency parsing is not a contradictionin addition to a high accuracy short parsing and training times are the most important properties of a parser however parsing and training times are still relatively longto determine why we analyzed the time usage of a dependency parserwe illustrate that th... |
a monolingual treebased translation model for sentence simplification in this paper we consider sentence sim plification as a special form of translation with the complex sentence as the source and the simple sentence as the target we propose a treebased simplification model which to our knowledge is the first statist... | C10-1152 | a monolingual treebased translation model for sentence simplificationin this paper we consider sentence simplification as a special form of translation with the complex sentence as the source and the simple sentence as the targetwe propose a treebased simplification model which to our knowledge is the first statistica... |
robust sentiment detection on twitter from biased and noisy data in this paper we propose an approach toautomatically detect sentiments on twit ter messages that explores some characteristics of how tweets are written and metainformation of the words that compose these messages moreover we leverage sources of noisy la... | C10-2005 | robust sentiment detection on twitter from biased and noisy datain this paper we propose an approach to automatically detect sentiments on twitter messages that explores some characteristics of how tweets are written and metainformation of the words that compose these messages moreover we leverage sources of noisy lab... |
enhanced sentiment learning using twitter hashtags and smileys automated identification of diverse sen timent types can be beneficial for manynlp systems such as review summariza tion and public media analysis in some ofthese systems there is an option of assign ing a sentiment value to a single sentence or a very shor... | C10-2028 | enhanced sentiment learning using twitter hashtags and smileysautomated identification of diverse sentiment types can be beneficial for many nlp systems such as review summarization and public media analysisin some of these systems there is an option of assigning a sentiment value to a single sentence or a very short t... |
categorial unification grammars categorial unification grammars embody the essential properties of both unification and categorial grammar formalisms their efficient and uniform way of encoding linguistic knowledge in wellunderstood and widely used representations makes them attractive for computational applications a... | C86-1045 | categorial unification grammarscategorial unification grammars embody the essential properties of both unification and categorial grammar formalismstheir efficient and uniform way of encoding linguistic knowledge in wellunderstood and widely used representations makes them attractive for computational applications and... |
word sense disambiguation with very large neural networks extracted from machine readable dictionaries in this paper we describe a means for automatically building very large neural networks from definition texts in machinereadable dictionaries and demonslrate he use of these networks for word sense disambiguation our... | C90-2067 | word sense disambiguation with very large neural networks extracted from machine readable dictionariesin this paper we describe a means for automatically building very large neural networks from definition texts in machinereadable dictionaries and demonstrate the use of these networks for word sense disambiguationour ... |
synchronous treeadjoining grammars the unique properties of lreeadjoining grammars present a challenge for the application of fags beyond the limited confines of syntax for instance to the task of semantic interpretation or automatic translation of nat ural hmguage we present a variant of fags called synchronous tags ... | C90-3045 | synchronous treeadjoining grammarsthe unique properties of treeadjoining grammars present a challenge for the application of tags beyond the limited confines of syntax for instance to the task of semantic interpretation or automatic translation of natural languagewe present a variant of tags called synchronous tags wh... |
word identification for mandarin chinese sentences keh j iann chen sh ing l luan liu institute of lnflrmation science academia sinica chinese sentences are composed with string of characters without blanks to mark words however the basic unit for sentence parsing and understanding is word therefore the first step of pr... | C92-1019 | word identification for mandarin chinese sentenceschinese sentences are composed with string of characters without blanks to mark wordshowever the basic unit for sentence parsing and understanding is wordtherefore the first step of processing chinese sentences is to identify the wordsthe difficulties of identifying wor... |
stochastic lexicalized treeadjoining grammars aho a v 1968 lndexed grammars an extension to context free grammars j acm 15647671 baker jk 1979 trainable grammars tbr speech recognition in jared j wolf and dennis h klatt editors speech communication papers presentacd at the 97 h meeting of the acoustical society of ame... | C92-2066 | stochastic lexicalized treeadjoining grammarsthe notion of stochastic lexicalized treeadjoining grammar is formally definedthe parameters of a sltag correspond to the probability of combining two structures each one associated with a wordthe characteristics of sltag are unique and novel since it is lexically sensitive... |
principar an efficient broadcoverage principlebased parser we present an eficient broadcoverage principlebased parser for english the parser has been implemented in c and runs on sun sparcstations with xwindows it con rains a lexicon with over 90000 entries con structed automatically b applying a set of ex traction an... | C94-1079 | principar an efficient broadcoverage principlebased parserwe present an efficient broadcoverage principlebased parser for englishthe parser has been implemented in c and runs on sun sparcstations with xwindowsit contains a lexicon with over 90000 entries constructed automatically by applying a set of extraction and co... |
kvec a new approach for aligning parallel texts various methods have been proposed for aligning texts in two or more languages such as the canadian parliamentary debates some of these methods generate a bilingual lexicon as a byproduct we present an alternative alignment strategy which we call kvec that starts by esti... | C94-2178 | kvec a new approach for aligning parallel textsvarious methods have been proposed for aligning texts in two or more languages such as the canadian parliamentary debates some of these methods generate a bilingual lexicon as a byproductwe present an alternative alignment strategy which we call kvec that starts by estimat... |
a rulebased approach to prepositional phrase attachment disambiguation in this paper we describe a new corpusbased ap proach to prepositional phrase attachment disam biguation and present results colnparing peffo mange of this algorithm with other corpusbased approaches to this problem prelositioual phrase attachment d... | C94-2195 | a rulebased approach to prepositional phrase attachment disambiguationin this paper we describe a new corpusbased approach to prepositional phrase attachment disambiguation and present results comparing performance of this algorithm with other corpusbased approaches to this problemwe train a transformationbased learnin... |
anaphora for everyone pronominal anaphora resolution without a parser we present an algorithm for anaphora res olutkm which is a modified and extended version of that developed by in contrast to that work our al gorithm does not require indepth full syn tactic parsing of text instead with minimal compromise in output ... | C96-1021 | anaphora for everyone pronominal anaphora resolution without a parserwe present an algorithm for anaphora resolution which is a modified and extended version of that developed by in contrast to that work our algorithm does not require indepth full syntactic parsing of textinstead with minimal compromise in output quali... |
hmmbased word alignment in statistical translation in this paper we describe a new model for word alignment in statistical trans lation and present experimental results the idea of the model is to make the alignment probabilities dependent on the differences in the alignment positions rather than on the absolute positi... | C96-2141 | hmmbased word alignment in statistical translationin this paper we describe a new model for word alignment in statistical translation and present experimental resultsthe idea of the model is to make the alignment probabilities dependent on the differences in the alignment positions rather than on the absolute positions... |
using semantic roles to improve question answering shallow semantic parsing the automaticidentification and labeling of sentential constituents has recently received much attention our work examines whether seman tic role information is beneficial to questionanswering we introduce a general frame work for answer extrac... | D07-1002 | using semantic roles to improve question answeringshallow semantic parsing the automatic identification and labeling of sentential constituents has recently received much attentionour work examines whether semantic role information is beneficial to question answeringwe introduce a general framework for answer extractio... |
what is the jeopardy model a quasisynchronous grammar for qa this paper presents a syntaxdriven ap proach to question answering specifically the answersentence selection problem forshortanswer questions rather than using syntactic features to augment exist ing statistical classifiers we build on the idea that ques tio... | D07-1003 | what is the jeopardy model a quasisynchronous grammar for qathis paper presents a syntaxdriven approach to question answering specifically the answersentence selection problem for shortanswer questionsrather than using syntactic features to augment existing statistical classifiers we build on the idea that questions a... |
improving statistical machine translation using word sense disambiguation we show for the first time that incorporatingthe predictions of a word sense disambigua tion system within a typical phrasebased statistical machine translation model consistently improves translation qualityacross all three different iwslt chin... | D07-1007 | improving statistical machine translation using word sense disambiguationwe show for the first time that incorporating the predictions of a word sense disambiguation system within a typical phrasebased statistical machine translation model consistently improves translation quality across all three different iwslt chin... |
why does not them find good hmm postaggers this paper investigates why the hmms es timated by expectationmaximization produce such poor results as partofspeech taggers we find that the hmms es timated by them generally assign a roughlyequal number of word tokens to each hid den state while the empirical distribution o... | D07-1031 | why does not them find good hmm postaggersthis paper investigates why the hmms estimated by expectationmaximization produce such poor results as partofspeech taggerswe find that the hmms estimated by them generally assign a roughly equal number of word tokens to each hidden state while the empirical distribution of t... |
vmeasure a conditional entropybased external cluster evaluation measure we present vmeasure an external entropybased cluster evaluation measure v measure provides an elegant solution tomany problems that affect previously defined cluster evaluation measures includ ing 1 dependence on clustering algorithm or data set 2 ... | D07-1043 | vmeasure a conditional entropybased external cluster evaluation measurewe present vmeasure an external entropybased cluster evaluation measurevmeasure provides an elegant solution to many problems that affect previously defined cluster evaluation measures including 1 dependence on clustering algorithm or data set 2 the... |
lexical semantic relatedness with random graph walks many systems for tasks such as question answering multidocument summarization and infor mation retrieval need robust numerical measures of lexical relatedness standard thesaurusbased measures of word pair similarity are based on only a single path between those words... | D07-1061 | lexical semantic relatedness with random graph walksmany systems for tasks such as question answering multidocument summarization and information retrieval need robust numerical measures of lexical relatednessstandard thesaurusbased measures of word pair similarity are based on only a single path between those words in... |
online learning of relaxed ccg grammars for parsing to logical form we consider the problem of learning toparse sentences to lambdacalculus repre sentations of their underlying semantics and present an algorithm that learns a weighted combinatory categorial grammar a key idea is to introduce nonstandard ccg combinator... | D07-1071 | online learning of relaxed ccg grammars for parsing to logical formwe consider the problem of learning to parse sentences to lambdacalculus representations of their underlying semantics and present an algorithm that learns a weighted combinatory categorial grammar a key idea is to introduce nonstandard ccg combinators ... |
the infinite pcfg using hierarchical dirichlet processes we present a nonparametric bayesian model of tree structures based on the hierarchical dirichlet process our hdppcfg model allows the complexity of the grammar to grow as more training data is available in addition to presenting a fully bayesianmodel for the pcf... | D07-1072 | the infinite pcfg using hierarchical dirichlet processeswe present a nonparametric bayesian model of tree structures based on the hierarchical dirichlet process our hdppcfg model allows the complexity of the grammar to grow as more training data is availablein addition to presenting a fully bayesian model for the pcfg ... |
tree kernelbased relation extraction with contextsensitive structured parse tree information this paper proposes a tree kernel with contextsensitive structured parse tree information for re lation extraction it resolves two critical problems in previous tree kernels for relation extraction in two ways first it automati... | D07-1076 | tree kernelbased relation extraction with contextsensitive structured parse tree informationthis paper proposes a tree kernel with contextsensitive structured parse tree information for relation extractionit resolves two critical problems in previous tree kernels for relation extraction in two waysfirst it automaticall... |
chinese syntactic reordering for statistical machine translation syntactic reordering approaches are an effective method for handling wordorder differences between source and target lan guages in statistical machine translation systems this paper introduces a reordering approach for translation from chinese to english ... | D07-1077 | chinese syntactic reordering for statistical machine translationsyntactic reordering approaches are an effective method for handling wordorder differences between source and target languages in statistical machine translation systemsthis paper introduces a reordering approach for translation from chinese to englishwe ... |
online largemargin training for statistical machine translation we achieved a state of the art performance in statistical machine translation by using a large number of features with an onlinelargemargin training algorithm the mil lions of parameters were tuned only on a small development set consisting of less than1k ... | D07-1080 | online largemargin training for statistical machine translationwe achieved a state of the art performance in statistical machine translation by using a large number of features with an online largemargin training algorithmthe millions of parameters were tuned only on a small development set consisting of less than 1k s... |
large language models in machine translation this paper reports on the benefits of largescale statistical language modeling in machine translation a distributed infrastruc ture is proposed which we use to train on up to 2 trillion tokens resulting in language models having up to 300 billion ngrams itis capable of provi... | D07-1090 | large language models in machine translationthis paper reports on the benefits of largescale statistical language modeling in machine translationa distributed infrastructure is proposed which we use to train on up to 2 trillion tokens resulting in language models having up to 300 billion ngramsit is capable of providin... |
factored translation models we present an extension of phrasebased statistical machine translation models that enables the straightforward integration of additional annotation at the wordlevel may it be linguistic markup or automatically generated word classes in a num ber of experiments we show that factoredtranslatio... | D07-1091 | factored translation modelswe present an extension of phrasebased statistical machine translation models that enables the straightforward integration of additional annotation at the wordlevel may it be linguistic markup or automatically generated word classesin a number of experiments we show that factored translation... |
the conll 2007 shared task on dependency parsing the conference on computational natural language learning features a shared task inwhich participants train and test their learn ing systems on the same data sets in 2007 as in 2006 the shared task has been devoted to dependency parsing this year with both a multilingual... | D07-1096 | the conll 2007 shared task on dependency parsingthe conference on computational natural language learning features a shared task in which participants train and test their learning systems on the same data setsin 2007 as in 2006 the shared task has been devoted to dependency parsing this year with both a multilingual t... |
single malt or blended a study in multilingual parser optimization we describe a twostage optimization of the maltparser system for the ten languages in the multilingual track of the conll 2007 shared task on dependency parsing the first stage consists in tuning a singleparsersystem for each language by optimizing para... | D07-1097 | single malt or blended a study in multilingual parser optimizationwe describe a twostage optimization of the maltparser system for the ten languages in the multilingual track of the conll 2007 shared task on dependency parsingthe first stage consists in tuning a singleparser system for each language by optimizing param... |
experiments with a higherorder projective dependency parser we present experiments with a dependency parsing model defined on rich factors ourmodel represents dependency trees with factors that include three types of relations be tween the tokens of a dependency and theirchildren we extend the projective pars ing algor... | D07-1101 | experiments with a higherorder projective dependency parserwe present experiments with a dependency parsing model defined on rich factorsour model represents dependency trees with factors that include three types of relations between the tokens of a dependency and their childrenwe extend the projective parsing algorith... |
improving translation quality by discarding most of the phrasetable it is possible to reduce the bulk of phrasetables for statistical machine translation us ing a technique based on the significance testing of phrase pair cooccurrence in the parallel corpus the savings can be quitesubstantial and because no reduction ... | D07-1103 | improving translation quality by discarding most of the phrasetableit is possible to reduce the bulk of phrasetables for statistical machine translation using a technique based on the significance testing of phrase pair cooccurrence in the parallel corpusthe savings can be quite substantial and because no reduction in... |
hierarchical phrasebased translation with suffix arrays a major engineering challenge in statistical machine translation systems is the efficient representation of extremely large translationrulesets in phrasebased models this prob lem can be addressed by storing the training data in memory and using a suffix array asa... | D07-1104 | hierarchical phrasebased translation with suffix arraysa major engineering challenge in statistical machine translation systems is the efficient representation of extremely large translation rulesetsin phrasebased models this problem can be addressed by storing the training data in memory and using a suffix array as an... |
a topic model for word sense disambiguation we develop latent dirichlet alocation with wordnet an unsupervised probabilistic topic model that includes word sense as a hidden variable we develop a probabilistic posterior inference algorithm for simultaneously disambiguating a corpusand learning the domains in which to ... | D07-1109 | a topic model for word sense disambiguationwe develop latent dirichlet allocation with wordnet an unsupervised probabilistic topic model that includes word sense as a hidden variablewe develop a probabilistic posterior inference algorithm for simultaneously disambiguating a corpus and learning the domains in which to ... |
dependency parsing and domain adaptation with lr models and parser ensembles we present a datadriven variant of the lr algorithm for dependency parsing and extend it with a bestfirst search for probabil istic generalized lr dependency parsing parser actions are determined by a classifier based on features that represen... | D07-1111 | dependency parsing and domain adaptation with lr models and parser ensembleswe present a datadriven variant of the lr algorithm for dependency parsing and extend it with a bestfirst search for probabilistic generalized lr dependency parsingparser actions are determined by a classifier based on features that represent t... |
extracting aspectevaluation and aspectof relations in opinion mining the technology of opinion extraction allowsusers to retrieve and analyze peoples opinions scattered over web documents we define an opinion unit as a quadruple consist ing of the opinion holder the subject being evaluated the part or the attribute in ... | D07-1114 | extracting aspectevaluation and aspectof relations in opinion miningthe technology of opinion extraction allows users to retrieve and analyze people opinions scattered over web documentswe define an opinion unit as a quadruple consisting of the opinion holder the subject being evaluated the part or the attribute in whi... |
indirecthmmbased hypothesis alignment for combining outputs from machine translation systems this paper presents a new hypothesis alignment method for combining outputs of multiple machine translation systems an indirect hidden markov model is proposed to address the synonym matching and word ordering issues in hypot... | D08-1011 | indirecthmmbased hypothesis alignment for combining outputs from machine translation systemsthis paper presents a new hypothesis alignment method for combining outputs of multiple machine translation systemsan indirect hidden markov model is proposed to address the synonym matching and word ordering issues in hypothe... |
multilingual subjectivity analysis using machine translation although research in other languages is increasing much of the work in subjectivity analysis has been applied to english data mainly due to the large body of electronic resources and tools that are available for this language in this paper we propose and eval... | D08-1014 | multilingual subjectivity analysis using machine translationalthough research in other languages is increasing much of the work in subjectivity analysis has been applied to english data mainly due to the large body of electronic resources and tools that are available for this languagein this paper we propose and evalua... |
dependency parsing by belief propagation we formulate dependency parsing as a graphical model with the novel ingredient of global constraints we show how to apply loopy belief propagation a simple and tool for and inference as a parsing algorithm bp is both asymptotically and empirically efficient even with secondorde... | D08-1016 | dependency parsing by belief propagationwe formulate dependency parsing as a graphical model with the novel ingredient of global constraintswe show how to apply loopy belief propagation a simple and effective tool for approximate learning and inferenceas a parsing algorithm bp is both asymptotically and empirically ef... |
revisiting readability a unified framework for predicting text quality we combine lexical syntactic and discourse features to produce a highly predictive model of human readers judgments of text readability this is the first study to take into account such a variety of linguistic factors and the first to empirically de... | D08-1020 | revisiting readability a unified framework for predicting text qualitywe combine lexical syntactic and discourse features to produce a highly predictive modelof human readers judgments of text readabilitythis is the first study to take into account such a variety of linguistic factors andthe first to empirically demons... |
syntactic constraints on paraphrases extracted from parallel corpora we improve the quality of paraphrases extracted from parallel corpora by requiring that phrases and their paraphrases be the same syntactic type this is achieved by parsing the english side of a parallel corpus and altering the phrase extraction algor... | D08-1021 | syntactic constraints on paraphrases extracted from parallel corporawe improve the quality of paraphrases extracted from parallel corpora by requiring thatphrases and their paraphrases be the same syntactic typethis is achieved by parsing the english side of a parallel corpus and altering the phrase extraction algorith... |
forestbased translation rule extraction examples target treetotree ding and palmer translation rule extraction is a fundamental problem in machine translation especially for syntaxbased that need parse trees from either or both sides of the bitext the current dominant practice only uses 1best trees which adversely af... | D08-1022 | forestbased translation rule extractiontranslation rule extraction is a fundamental problem in machine translation especially for linguistically syntaxbased systems that need parse trees from either or both sides of the bitextthe current dominant practice only uses 1best trees which adversely affects the rule set quali... |
online largemargin training of syntactic and structural translation features minimumerrorrate training is a bottleneck for current development in statistical machine translation because it is limited in the number of weights it can reliably optimize building on the work of watanabe et al we explore the use of the mira... | D08-1024 | online largemargin training of syntactic and structural translation featuresminimumerrorrate training is a bottleneck for current development in statistical machine translation because it is limited in the number of weights it can reliably optimizebuilding on the work of watanabe et al we explore the use of the mira a... |
cheap and fast â but is it good evaluating nonexpert annotations for natural language tasks human linguistic annotation is crucial for many natural language processing tasks but can be expensive and timeconsuming we explore the use of amazons mechanical turk system a significantly cheaper and faster method for collecti... | D08-1027 | cheap and fast â but is it good evaluating nonexpert annotations for natural language taskshuman linguistic annotation is crucial for many natural language processing tasks but can be expensive and timeconsumingwe explore the use of amazons mechanical turk system a significantly cheaper and faster method for collecting... |
understanding the value of features for coreference resolution in recent years there has been substantial work on the important problem of coreference resolution most of which has concentrated on the development of new models and algorithmic techniques these works often show that complex models improve over a weak pair... | D08-1031 | understanding the value of features for coreference resolutionin recent years there has been substantial work on the important problem of coreference resolution most of which has concentrated on the development of new models and algorithmic techniquesthese works often show that complex models improve over a weak pairwi... |
bayesian unsupervised topic segmentation this paper describes a novel bayesian approach to unsupervised topic segmentation unsupervised systems for this task are driven the tendency of wellformed segments to induce a compact and consistent lexical distribution we show that lexical cohesion can be placed in a bayesian c... | D08-1035 | bayesian unsupervised topic segmentationthis paper describes a novel bayesian approach to unsupervised topic segmentationunsupervised systems for this task are driven by lexical cohesion the tendency of wellformed segments to induce a compact and consistent lexical distributionwe show that lexical cohesion can be place... |
a comparison of bayesian estimators for unsupervised hidden markov model pos taggers there is growing interest in applying bayesian techniques to nlp problems there are a number of different estimators for bayesian models and it is useful to know what kinds of tasks each does well on this paper compares a variety of di... | D08-1036 | a comparison of bayesian estimators for unsupervised hidden markov model pos taggersthere is growing interest in applying bayesian techniques to nlp problemsthere are a number of different estimators for bayesian models and it is useful to know what kinds of tasks each does well onthis paper compares a variety of diffe... |
a tale of two parsers investigating and combining graphbased and transitionbased dependency parsing graphbased and transitionbased approaches to dependency parsing adopt very different views of the problem each view having its own strengths and limitations we study both approaches under the framework of beamsearch by d... | D08-1059 | a tale of two parsers investigating and combining graphbased and transitionbased dependency parsinggraphbased and transitionbased approaches to dependency parsing adopt very different views of the problem each view having its own strengths and limitationswe study both approaches under the framework of beamsearchby deve... |
lattice minimum bayesrisk decoding for statistical machine translation we present minimum bayesrisk decoding over translation lattices that compactly encode a huge number of translation hypotheses we describe conditions on the loss function that will enable efficient implementation of mbr decoders on lattices we intro... | D08-1065 | lattice minimum bayesrisk decoding for statistical machine translationwe present minimum bayesrisk decoding over translation lattices that compactly encode a huge number of translation hypotheseswe describe conditions on the loss function that will enable efficient implementation of mbr decoders on latticeswe introduc... |
joint unsupervised coreference resolution with markov logic machine learning approaches to coreference resolution are typically supervised and require expensive labeled data some unsupervised approaches have been proposed but they are less accurate in this paper we present the first unsupervised approach that is compe... | D08-1068 | joint unsupervised coreference resolution with markov logicmachine learning approaches to coreference resolution are typically supervised and require expensive labeled datasome unsupervised approaches have been proposed but they are less accuratein this paper we present the first unsupervised approach that is competit... |
latticebased minimum error rate training for statistical machine translation minimum error rate training is an effective means to estimate the feature function weights of a linear model such that an automated evaluation criterion for measuring system performance can directly be optimized in training to accomplish this... | D08-1076 | latticebased minimum error rate training for statistical machine translationminimum error rate training is an effective means to estimate the feature function weights of a linear model such that an automated evaluation criterion for measuring system performance can directly be optimized in trainingto accomplish this t... |
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