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candido-etal-2009-supporting | https://aclanthology.org/W09-2105 | Supporting the Adaptation of Texts for Poor Literacy Readers: a Text Simplification Editor for Brazilian Portuguese | In this paper we investigate the task of text simplification for Brazilian Portuguese. Our purpose is threefold: to introduce a simplification tool for such language and its underlying development methodology, to present an on-line authoring system of simplified text based on the previous tool, and finally to discuss t... | true | [] | [] | Reduced Inequalities | Quality Education | null | We thank the Brazilian Science Foundation FAPESP and Microsoft Research for financial support. | 2009 | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
obamuyide-vlachos-2019-model | https://aclanthology.org/P19-1589 | Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Relation Classification with Limited Supervision | In this paper we frame the task of supervised relation classification as an instance of metalearning. We propose a model-agnostic metalearning protocol for training relation classifiers to achieve enhanced predictive performance in limited supervision settings. During training, we aim to not only learn good parameters ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors acknowledge support from the EU H2020 SUMMA project (grant agreement number 688139). We are grateful to Yuhao Zhang for sharing his data with us. | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
lehman-etal-2019-inferring | https://aclanthology.org/N19-1371 | Inferring Which Medical Treatments Work from Reports of Clinical Trials | How do we know if a particular medical treatment actually works? Ideally one would consult all available evidence from relevant clinical trials. Unfortunately, such results are primarily disseminated in natural language scientific articles, imposing substantial burden on those trying to make sense of them. In this pape... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | This work was supported by NSF CAREER Award 1750978.We also acknowledge ITS at Northeastern for providing high performance computing resources that have supported this research. | 2019 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
knorz-1982-recognition | https://aclanthology.org/C82-1026 | Recognition of Abstract Objects - A Decision Theory Approach Within Natural Language Processing | The DAISY/ALIBABA-system developed within the WAl-project represents both a specific solution to the automatic indexing problem and a general framework for problems in the field of natural language processing, characterized by fuzziness and uncertainty• The WAI approach to the indexing problem has already been publishe... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Abstracts (FSTA 71/72) containing about 33.000 documents were used as a basis for dictionary.construction. | 1982 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
becker-1975-phrasal | https://aclanthology.org/T75-2013 | The Phrasal Lexicon | to understand the workings of these systems without vainly pretending that they can be reduced to pristine-pure mathematical formulations.
I I I t I 1 t ! 1 | ! I ! | | ! ! Let's Face Facts | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1975 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
loveys-etal-2017-small | https://aclanthology.org/W17-3110 | Small but Mighty: Affective Micropatterns for Quantifying Mental Health from Social Media Language | Many psychological phenomena occur in small time windows, measured in minutes or hours. However, most computational linguistic techniques look at data on the order of weeks, months, or years. We explore micropatterns in sequences of messages occurring over a short time window for their prevalence and power for quantify... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | The authors would like ackowledge the support of the 2016 Jelinek Memorial Workshop on Speech and Language Technology, at Johns Hopkins University, for providing the concerted time to perform this research. The authors would like to especially thank Craig and Annabelle Bryan for the inspiration for this work and the ge... | 2017 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
avvaru-vobilisetty-2020-bert | https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.144 | BERT at SemEval-2020 Task 8: Using BERT to Analyse Meme Emotions | Sentiment analysis, being one of the most sought after research problems within Natural Language Processing (NLP) researchers. The range of problems being addressed by sentiment analysis is ever increasing. Till now, most of the research focuses on predicting sentiment, or sentiment categories like sarcasm, humor, offe... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
adam-etal-2017-zikahack | https://aclanthology.org/W17-5806 | ZikaHack 2016: A digital disease detection competition | Effective response to infectious diseases outbreaks relies on the rapid and early detection of those outbreaks. Invalidated, yet timely and openly available digital information can be used for the early detection of outbreaks. Public health surveillance authorities can exploit these early warnings to plan and coordinat... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | Funding for this competition was provided by the National health and medical research council's | 2017 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
martinez-etal-2002-syntactic | https://aclanthology.org/C02-1112 | Syntactic Features for High Precision Word Sense Disambiguation | This paper explores the contribution of a broad range of syntactic features to WSD: grammatical relations coded as the presence of adjuncts/arguments in isolation or as subcategorization frames, and instantiated grammatical relations between words. We have tested the performance of syntactic features using two differen... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research has been partially funded by McyT (Hermes project TIC-2000-0335-C03-03). David Martinez was funded by the Basque Government, grant AE-BFI:01.245). | 2002 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
martinez-alonso-etal-2013-annotation | https://aclanthology.org/P13-2127 | Annotation of regular polysemy and underspecification | We present the result of an annotation task on regular polysemy for a series of semantic classes or dot types in English, Danish and Spanish. This article describes the annotation process, the results in terms of inter-encoder agreement, and the sense distributions obtained with two methods: majority voting with a theo... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The research leading to these results has been funded by the European Commission's 7th Framework Program under grant agreement 238405 (CLARA). | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
agrawal-carpuat-2020-generating | https://aclanthology.org/2020.ngt-1.21 | Generating Diverse Translations via Weighted Fine-tuning and Hypotheses Filtering for the Duolingo STAPLE Task | This paper describes the University of Maryland's submission to the Duolingo Shared Task on Simultaneous Translation And Paraphrase for Language Education (STAPLE). Unlike the standard machine translation task, STAPLE requires generating a set of outputs for a given input sequence, aiming to cover the space of translat... | true | [] | [] | Quality Education | null | null | null | 2020 | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yang-etal-2008-chinese | https://aclanthology.org/C08-1130 | Chinese Term Extraction Using Minimal Resources | This pap term extraction nimal resources. A term candidate extraction algorithm is proposed to i tures of the 1 Ter st fun domain. Term | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was done while the first author was working at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University supported by CERG Grant B-Q941 and Central Research Grant: G-U297. | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
goldberg-etal-2013-efficient | https://aclanthology.org/P13-2111 | Efficient Implementation of Beam-Search Incremental Parsers | Beam search incremental parsers are accurate, but not as fast as they could be. We demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, most current implementations of beam parsers in fact run in O(n 2), rather than linear time, because each statetransition is actually implemented as an O(n) operation. We present an improved ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
nissim-etal-2013-cross | https://aclanthology.org/W13-0501 | Cross-linguistic annotation of modality: a data-driven hierarchical model | We present an annotation model of modality which is (i) cross-linguistic, relying on a wide, strongly typologically motivated approach, and (ii) hierarchical and layered, accounting for both factuality and speaker's attitude, while modelling these two aspects through separate annotation schemes. Modality is defined thr... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
jauregi-unanue-etal-2020-leveraging | https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.395 | Leveraging Discourse Rewards for Document-Level Neural Machine Translation | Document-level machine translation focuses on the translation of entire documents from a source to a target language. It is widely regarded as a challenging task since the translation of the individual sentences in the document needs to retain aspects of the discourse at document level. However, document-level translat... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors would like to thank the RoZetta Institute (formerly CMCRC) for providing financial support to this research. Warmest thanks also go to Dr. Sameen Maruf for her feedback on an early version of this paper. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
alonso-etal-2000-redefinition | https://aclanthology.org/W00-2002 | A redefinition of Embedded Push-Down Automata | A new definition of Embedded Push-Down Automata is provided. We prove this new definition. •. resen1es the equivalence with tree adjoining languages and we provide a tabulationframework to execute any automaton in polynomial time with respect to the length of the input string. | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2000 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
lafourcade-1996-structured | https://aclanthology.org/C96-2199 | Structured lexical data: how to make them widely available, useful and reasonably protected? A practicalexample with a trilingual dictionary | We are studying under which constraints structured lexical data can bemade, at the same time, widely available to the general public (freely ornot), electronically supported, published and reasonably protected frompiracy? A three facet approach-with dictionary tools, web servers and e-mail servers-seems to be effective... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | My gratefulness goes to the staff of theUTMK and USM, the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka and the French Embassy at KualaLumpur. I do not forget the staff of the GETA-CLIPS-IMAG laboratory forsupporting this project and the reviewers of this paper, namely H. Blanchon,Ch. Boitet, J. Gaschler and G. Sdrasset. Of course, all err... | 1996 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
grenager-etal-2005-unsupervised | https://aclanthology.org/P05-1046 | Unsupervised Learning of Field Segmentation Models for Information Extraction | The applicability of many current information extraction techniques is severely limited by the need for supervised training data. We demonstrate that for certain field structured extraction tasks, such as classified advertisements and bibliographic citations, small amounts of prior knowledge can be used to learn effect... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the reviewers for their consideration and insightful comments. | 2005 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
mencarini-2018-potential | https://aclanthology.org/W18-1109 | The Potential of the Computational Linguistic Analysis of Social Media for Population Studies | The paper provides an outline of the scope for synergy between computational linguistic analysis and population studies. It first reviews where population studies stand in terms of using social media data. Demographers are entering the realm of big data in force. But, this paper argues, population studies have much to ... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | null | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
liu-etal-2017-generating | https://aclanthology.org/P17-1010 | Generating and Exploiting Large-scale Pseudo Training Data for Zero Pronoun Resolution | Most existing approaches for zero pronoun resolution are heavily relying on annotated data, which is often released by shared task organizers. Therefore, the lack of annotated data becomes a major obstacle in the progress of zero pronoun resolution task. Also, it is expensive to spend manpower on labeling the data for ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their thorough reviewing and proposing thoughtful comments to improve our paper. This work was supported by the National 863 Leading Technology Research Project via grant 2015AA015407, Key Projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China via grant 61632011, | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kuhn-etal-2006-segment | https://aclanthology.org/N06-1004 | Segment Choice Models: Feature-Rich Models for Global Distortion in Statistical Machine Translation | This paper presents a new approach to distortion (phrase reordering) in phrasebased machine translation (MT). Distortion is modeled as a sequence of choices during translation. The approach yields trainable, probabilistic distortion models that are global: they assign a probability to each possible phrase reordering. T... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2006 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
gnehm-clematide-2020-text | https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcss-1.10 | Text Zoning and Classification for Job Advertisements in German, French and English | We present experiments to structure job ads into text zones and classify them into professions, industries and management functions, thereby facilitating social science analyses on labor marked demand. Our main contribution are empirical findings on the benefits of contextualized embeddings and the potential of multi-t... | true | [] | [] | Decent Work and Economic Growth | null | null | We thank Dong Nguyen and the anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of this article and their helpful comments and suggestions, and Helen Buchs for her efforts in post-evaluation. This work is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation under grant number 407740 187333. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yu-etal-2018-device | https://aclanthology.org/C18-2028 | On-Device Neural Language Model Based Word Prediction | Recent developments in deep learning with application to language modeling have led to success in tasks of text processing, summarizing and machine translation. However, deploying huge language models on mobile devices for on-device keyboards poses computation as a bottleneck due to their puny computation capacities. I... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
chen-etal-2013-identifying | https://aclanthology.org/N13-1124 | Identifying Intention Posts in Discussion Forums | This paper proposes to study the problem of identifying intention posts in online discussion forums. For example, in a discussion forum, a user wrote "I plan to buy a camera," which indicates a buying intention. This intention can be easily exploited by advertisers. To the best of our knowledge, there is still no repor... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported in part by a grant from National Science Foundation (NSF) under grant no. IIS-1111092, and a grant from HP Labs Innovation Research Program. | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
nguyen-verspoor-2018-improved | https://aclanthology.org/K18-2008 | An Improved Neural Network Model for Joint POS Tagging and Dependency Parsing | We propose a novel neural network model for joint part-of-speech (POS) tagging and dependency parsing. Our model extends the well-known BIST graph-based dependency parser (Kiperwasser and Goldberg, 2016) by incorporating a BiLSTM-based tagging component to produce automatically predicted POS tags for the parser. On the... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported by the ARC Discovery Project DP150101550 and ARC Linkage Project LP160101469. | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
hsu-2014-frequency | https://aclanthology.org/W14-4714 | When Frequency Data Meet Dispersion Data in the Extraction of Multi-word Units from a Corpus: A Study of Trigrams in Chinese | One of the main approaches to extract multi-word units is the frequency threshold approach, but the way this approach considers dispersion data still leaves a lot to be desired. This study adopts Gries's (2008) dispersion measure to extract trigrams from a Chinese corpus, and the results are compared with those of the ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
vijay-shanker-etal-1987-characterizing | https://aclanthology.org/P87-1015 | Characterizing Structural Descriptions Produced by Various Grammatical Formalisms | We consider the structural descriptions produced by various grammatical formalisms in ~ of the complexity of the paths and the relationship between paths in the sets of structural descriptions that each system can generate. In considering the relationship between formalisms, we show that it is useful to abstract away f... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1987 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bos-etal-2003-dipper | https://aclanthology.org/W03-2123 | DIPPER: Description and Formalisation of an Information-State Update Dialogue System Architecture | The DIPPER architecture is a collection of software agents for prototyping spoken dialogue systems. Implemented on top of the Open Agent Architecture (OAA), it comprises agents for speech input and output, dialogue management, and further supporting agents. We define a formal syntax and semantics for the DIP-PER inform... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Part of this work was supported by the EU Project MagiCster (IST 1999-29078). We thank Nuance for permission to use their software and tools. | 2003 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
fort-etal-2012-modeling | https://aclanthology.org/C12-1055 | Modeling the Complexity of Manual Annotation Tasks: a Grid of Analysis | Manual corpus annotation is getting widely used in Natural Language Processing (NLP). While being recognized as a difficult task, no in-depth analysis of its complexity has been performed yet. We provide in this article a grid of analysis of the different complexity dimensions of an annotation task, which helps estimat... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was realized as part of the Quaero Programme 12 , funded by OSEO, French State agency for innovation. | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
wilson-etal-2009-articles | https://aclanthology.org/J09-3003 | Articles: Recognizing Contextual Polarity: An Exploration of Features for Phrase-Level Sentiment Analysis | Many approaches to automatic sentiment analysis begin with a large lexicon of words marked with their prior polarity (also called semantic orientation). However, the contextual polarity of the phrase in which a particular instance of a word appears may be quite different from the word's prior polarity. Positive words a... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions. This work was supported in part by an Andrew Mellow Predoctoral Fellowship, by the NSF under grant IIS-0208798, by the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA), and by the European IST Programme through the AMIDA Integr... | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
konig-1990-complexity | https://aclanthology.org/C90-2041 | The Complexity of Parsing With Extended Categorial Grammars | Instead of incorporating a gap-percolation mechanism for handling certain "movement" phenomena, the extended categorial grammars contain special inference rules for treating these problems. The Lambek categorial grammar is one representative of the grammar family under consideration. It allows for a restricted use of h... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The research reported in this paper is supported by the LILOG project, and a doctoral fellowship, both from IBM Deutschland OmbH, and by the Esprit Basic Research Action Project 3175 (DYANA). I thank Andreas Eisele for discussion. The responsibility for errors resides with me. | 1990 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
sharma-etal-2021-lrg | https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.21 | LRG at SemEval-2021 Task 4: Improving Reading Comprehension with Abstract Words using Augmentation, Linguistic Features and Voting | In this article, we present our methodologies for SemEval-2021 Task-4: Reading Comprehension of Abstract Meaning. Given a fill-inthe-blank-type question and a corresponding context, the task is to predict the most suitable word from a list of 5 options. There are three sub-tasks within this task: Imperceptibility (subt... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Rajaswa Patil 1 and Somesh Singh 2 for their support. We would also like to express our gratitude to our colleagues at the Language Research Group (LRG) 3 , who have been with us at every stepping stone. | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
liberman-2009-annotation | https://aclanthology.org/W09-0102 | The Annotation Conundrum | Without lengthy, iterative refinement of guidelines, and equally lengthy and iterative training of annotators, the level of inter-subjective agreement on simple tasks of phonetic, phonological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic annotation is shockingly low. This is a significant practical problem in speech and languag... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
indurthi-etal-2019-fermi | https://aclanthology.org/S19-2009 | FERMI at SemEval-2019 Task 5: Using Sentence embeddings to Identify Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women in Twitter | This paper describes our system (Fermi) for Task 5 of SemEval-2019: HatEval: Multilingual Detection of Hate Speech Against Immigrants and Women on Twitter. We participated in the subtask A for English and ranked first in the evaluation on the test set. We evaluate the quality of multiple sentence embeddings and explore... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | Reduced Inequalities | Gender Equality | null | 2019 | false | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
lewin-2007-basenps | https://aclanthology.org/W07-1022 | BaseNPs that contain gene names: domain specificity and genericity | The names of named entities very often occur as constituents of larger noun phrases which denote different types of entity. Understanding the structure of the embedding phrase can be an enormously beneficial first step to enhancing whatever processing is intended to follow the named entity recognition in the first plac... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | null | 2007 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
cieri-etal-2012-twenty | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/1117_Paper.pdf | Twenty Years of Language Resource Development and Distribution: A Progress Report on LDC Activities | On the Linguistic Data Consortium's (LDC) 20th anniversary, this paper describes the changes to the language resource landscape over the past two decades, how LDC has adjusted its practice to adapt to them and how the business model continues to grow. Specifically, we will discuss LDC's evolving roles and changes in th... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
lee-haug-2010-porting | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/631_Paper.pdf | Porting an Ancient Greek and Latin Treebank | We have recently converted a dependency treebank, consisting of ancient Greek and Latin texts, from one annotation scheme to another that was independently designed. This paper makes two observations about this conversion process. First, we show that, despite significant surface differences between the two treebanks, a... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank the Perseus Project, Tufts University, for providing the Greek test set. The first author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Oslo, where he conducted part of this research. | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
shelmanov-etal-2021-certain | https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.157 | How Certain is Your Transformer? | In this work, we consider the problem of uncertainty estimation for Transformer-based models. We investigate the applicability of uncertainty estimates based on dropout usage at the inference stage (Monte Carlo dropout). The series of experiments on natural language understanding tasks shows that the resulting uncertai... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank the reviewers for their valuable feedback. The development of uncertainty estimation algorithms for Transformer models (Section 3) was supported by the joint MTS-Skoltech lab. The development of a software system for the experimental study of uncertainty estimation methods and its application to NLP tasks (Sec... | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
hernandez-calvo-2014-conll | https://aclanthology.org/W14-1707 | CoNLL 2014 Shared Task: Grammatical Error Correction with a Syntactic N-gram Language Model from a Big Corpora | We describe our approach to grammatical error correction presented in the CoNLL Shared Task 2014. Our work is focused on error detection in sentences with a language model based on syntactic tri-grams and bi-grams extracted from dependency trees generated from 90% of the English Wikipedia. Also, we add a naïve module t... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Work done under partial support of Mexican Government (CONACYT, SNI) and Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México (SIP-IPN, COFAA-IPN, PIFI-IPN). | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ayari-etal-2010-fine | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/520_Paper.pdf | Fine-grained Linguistic Evaluation of Question Answering Systems | Question answering systems are complex systems using natural language processing. Some evaluation campaigns are organized to evaluate such systems in order to propose a classification of systems based on final results (number of correct answers). Nevertheless, teams need to evaluate more precisely the results obtained ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
swanson-charniak-2014-data | https://aclanthology.org/E14-4033 | Data Driven Language Transfer Hypotheses | Language transfer, the preferential second language behavior caused by similarities to the speaker's native language, requires considerable expertise to be detected by humans alone. Our goal in this work is to replace expert intervention by data-driven methods wherever possible. We define a computational methodology th... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ruder-plank-2017-learning | https://aclanthology.org/D17-1038 | Learning to select data for transfer learning with Bayesian Optimization | Domain similarity measures can be used to gauge adaptability and select suitable data for transfer learning, but existing approaches define ad hoc measures that are deemed suitable for respective tasks. Inspired by work on curriculum learning, we propose to learn data selection measures using Bayesian Optimization and ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback. Sebastian is supported by Irish Research Council Grant Number EBPPG/2014/30 and Science Foundation Ireland Grant Number SFI/12/RC/2289. Barbara is supported by NVIDIA corporation and the Computing Center of the University of Groningen. | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ogbuju-onyesolu-2019-development | https://aclanthology.org/W19-3601 | Development of a General Purpose Sentiment Lexicon for Igbo Language | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yates-etal-2016-effects | https://aclanthology.org/L16-1479 | Effects of Sampling on Twitter Trend Detection | Much research has focused on detecting trends on Twitter, including health-related trends such as mentions of Influenza-like illnesses or their symptoms. The majority of this research has been conducted using Twitter's public feed, which includes only about 1% of all public tweets. It is unclear if, when, and how using... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | null | 2016 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
hubert-etal-2016-training | https://aclanthology.org/L16-1514 | Training \& Quality Assessment of an Optical Character Recognition Model for Northern Haida | In this paper, we are presenting our work on the creation of the first optical character recognition (OCR) model for Northern Haida, also known as Masset or Xaad Kil, a nearly extinct First Nations language spoken in the Haida Gwaii archipelago in British Columbia, Canada. We are addressing the challenges of training a... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
segond-etal-2005-situational | https://aclanthology.org/W05-0213 | Situational Language Training for Hotel Receptionists | This paper presents the lessons learned in experimenting with Thetis 1 , an EC project focusing on the creation and localization of enhanced on-line pedagogical content for language learning in tourism industry. It is based on a general innovative approach to language learning that allows employees to acquire practical... | true | [] | [] | Decent Work and Economic Growth | null | null | null | 2005 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tiedemann-2008-synchronizing | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/484_paper.pdf | Synchronizing Translated Movie Subtitles | This paper addresses the problem of synchronizing movie subtitles, which is necessary to improve alignment quality when building a parallel corpus out of translated subtitles. In particular, synchronization is done on the basis of aligned anchor points. Previous studies have shown that cognate filters are useful for th... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
hsiao-etal-2017-integrating | https://aclanthology.org/I17-1098 | Integrating Subject, Type, and Property Identification for Simple Question Answering over Knowledge Base | This paper presents an approach to identify subject, type and property from knowledge base for answering simple questions. We propose new features to rank entity candidates in KB. Besides, we split a relation in KB into type and property. Each of them is modeled by a bi-directional LSTM. Experimental results show that ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kwong-2001-forming | https://aclanthology.org/Y01-1010 | Forming an Integrated Lexical Resource for Word Sense Disambiguation | This paper reports a full-scale linkage of noun senses between two existing lexical resources, namely WordNet and Roget's Thesaurus, to form an Integrated Lexical Resource (ILR) for use in natural language processing (NLP). The linkage was founded on a structurally-based sense-mapping algorithm. About 18,000 nouns with... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was done at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. The author would like to thank Prof. Karen Sparck Jones for her advice and comments. The work was financially supported by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom, the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust,... | 2001 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
hirasawa-komachi-2019-debiasing | https://aclanthology.org/W19-6604 | Debiasing Word Embeddings Improves Multimodal Machine Translation | In recent years, pretrained word embeddings have proved useful for multimodal neural machine translation (NMT) models to address the shortage of available datasets. However, the integration of pretrained word embeddings has not yet been explored extensively. Further, pretrained word embeddings in high dimensional space... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was partially supported by JSPS Grantin-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Grant Number JP19K12099. | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
van-deemter-etal-2017-investigating | https://aclanthology.org/W17-3532 | Investigating the content and form of referring expressions in Mandarin: introducing the Mtuna corpus | East Asian languages are thought to handle reference differently from English, particularly in terms of the marking of definiteness and number. We present the first Data-Text corpus for Referring Expressions in Mandarin, and we use this corpus to test some initial hypotheses inspired by the theoretical linguistics lite... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work is partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant no. 61433015. We thank Stephen Matthews, University of Hong Kong, for comments, and Albert Gatt, University of Malta, for access to Dutch TUNA. | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ruan-etal-2016-finding | https://aclanthology.org/P16-2052 | Finding Optimists and Pessimists on Twitter | Optimism is linked to various personality factors as well as both psychological and physical health, but how does it relate to the way a person tweets? We analyze the online activity of a set of Twitter users in order to determine how well machine learning algorithms can detect a person's outlook on life by reading the... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | We would like to thank Seong Ju Park, Tian Bao, and Yihan Li for their assistance in the initial project that led to this work. This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation award #1344257 and by grant #48503 from the John Templeton Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclus... | 2016 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
mirzaei-etal-2016-automatic | https://aclanthology.org/W16-4122 | Automatic Speech Recognition Errors as a Predictor of L2 Listening Difficulties | This paper investigates the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) errors as indicators of the second language (L2) learners' listening difficulties and in doing so strives to overcome the shortcomings of Partial and Synchronized Caption (PSC) system. PSC is a system that generates a partial caption including diffic... | true | [] | [] | Quality Education | null | null | null | 2016 | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
forcada-2000-learning | https://aclanthology.org/2000.bcs-1.7 | Learning machine translation strategies using commercial systems: discovering word reordering rules | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2000 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
patankar-etal-2022-optimize | https://aclanthology.org/2022.dravidianlangtech-1.36 | Optimize\_Prime@DravidianLangTech-ACL2022: Abusive Comment Detection in Tamil | This paper tries to address the problem of abusive comment detection in low-resource indic languages. Abusive comments are statements that are offensive to a person or a group of people. These comments are targeted toward individuals belonging to specific ethnicities, genders, caste, race, sexuality, etc. Abusive Comme... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | null | 2022 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
cieri-etal-2004-fisher | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2004/pdf/767.pdf | The Fisher Corpus: a Resource for the Next Generations of Speech-to-Text | This paper describes, within the context of the DARPA EARS program, the design and implementation of the Fisher protocol for collecting conversational telephone speech which has yielded more than 16,000 English conversations. It also discusses the Quick Transcription specification that allowed 2000 hours of Fisher audi... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhang-etal-2020-query | https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-industry.4 | Query Distillation: BERT-based Distillation for Ensemble Ranking | Recent years have witnessed substantial progress in the development of neural ranking networks, but also an increasingly heavy computational burden due to growing numbers of parameters and the adoption of model ensembles. Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a common solution to balance the effectiveness and efficiency. Howe... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
liu-etal-2016-agreement | https://aclanthology.org/N16-1046 | Agreement on Target-bidirectional Neural Machine Translation | Neural machine translation (NMT) with recurrent neural networks, has proven to be an effective technique for end-to-end machine translation. However, in spite of its promising advances over traditional translation methods, it typically suffers from an issue of unbalanced outputs, that arise from both the nature of recu... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions. In addition, we would like to thank Rico Sennrich for fruitful discussions. | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
rapp-2006-exploring | https://aclanthology.org/E06-2018 | Exploring the Sense Distributions of Homographs | This paper quantitatively investigates in how far local context is useful to disambiguate the senses of an ambiguous word. This is done by comparing the co-occurrence frequencies of particular context words. First, one context word representing a certain sense is chosen, and then the co-occurrence frequencies with two ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | I would like to thank the three anonymous reviewers for their detailed and helpful comments. | 2006 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ding-etal-2020-coupling | https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.595 | Coupling Distant Annotation and Adversarial Training for Cross-Domain Chinese Word Segmentation | Fully supervised neural approaches have achieved significant progress in the task of Chinese word segmentation (CWS). Nevertheless, the performance of supervised models tends to drop dramatically when they are applied to outof-domain data. Performance degradation is caused by the distribution gap across domains and the... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We sincerely thank all the reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions. This research is partially supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61773229 and 61972219), the Basic Research Fund of Shenzhen City (Grand No. JCYJ20190813165003837), and Overseas Cooperation Research Fund o... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
broeder-etal-2010-data | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/163_Paper.pdf | A Data Category Registry- and Component-based Metadata Framework | We describe our computer-supported framework to overcome the rule of metadata schism. It combines the use of controlled vocabularies, managed by a data category registry, with a component-based approach, where the categories can be combined to yield complex metadata structures. A metadata scheme devised in this way wil... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
sinclair-etal-2018-ability | https://aclanthology.org/W18-5005 | Does Ability Affect Alignment in Second Language Tutorial Dialogue? | The role of alignment between interlocutors in second language learning is different to that in fluent conversational dialogue. Learners gain linguistic skill through increased alignment, yet the extent to which they can align will be constrained by their ability. Tutors may use alignment to teach and encourage the stu... | true | [] | [] | Quality Education | null | null | Thanks to Amy Isard, Maria Gorinova, Maria Wolters, Federico Fancellu, Sorcha Gilroy, Clara Vania and Marco Damonte as well as the three anonymous reviewers for their useful comments in relation to this paper. A. Sinclair especially acknowledges the help and support of Jon Oberlander during the early development of thi... | 2018 | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
shudo-etal-2000-collocations | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2000/pdf/2.pdf | Collocations as Word Co-ocurrence Restriction Data - An Application to Japanese Word Processor - | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2000 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
khlyzova-etal-2022-complementarity | https://aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.1 | On the Complementarity of Images and Text for the Expression of Emotions in Social Media | Authors of posts in social media communicate their emotions and what causes them with text and images. While there is work on emotion and stimulus detection for each modality separately, it is yet unknown if the modalities contain complementary emotion information in social media. We aim at filling this research gap an... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (project CEAT, KL 2869/1-2). | 2022 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
juhasz-etal-2019-tuefact | https://aclanthology.org/S19-2206 | TueFact at SemEval 2019 Task 8: Fact checking in community question answering forums: context matters | The SemEval 2019 Task 8 on Fact-Checking in community question answering forums aimed to classify questions into categories and verify the correctness of answers given on the QatarLiving public forum. The task was divided into two subtasks: the first classifying the question, the second the answers. The Tue-Fact system... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | null | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
carreras-padro-2002-flexible | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2002/pdf/243.pdf | A Flexible Distributed Architecture for Natural Language Analyzers | Many modern NLP applications require basic language processors such as POS taggers, parsers, etc. All these tools are usually preexisting, and must be adapted to fit in the requirements of the application to be developed. This adaptation procedure is usually time consuming and increases the application development cost... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2002 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
meerkamp-zhou-2017-boosting | https://aclanthology.org/W17-4307 | Boosting Information Extraction Systems with Character-level Neural Networks and Free Noisy Supervision | We present an architecture to boost the precision of existing information extraction systems. This is achieved by augmenting the existing parser, which may be constraint-based or hybrid statistical, with a character-level neural network. Our architecture combines the ability of constraint-based or hybrid extraction sys... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank my managers Alex Bozic, Tim Phelan, and Joshwini Pereira for supporting this project, as well as David Rosenberg from the CTO's office for providing access to GPU infrastructure. | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
meng-wang-2009-mining | https://aclanthology.org/P09-2045 | Mining User Reviews: from Specification to Summarization | This paper proposes a method to extract product features from user reviews and generate a review summary. This method only relies on product specifications, which usually are easy to obtain. Other resources like segmenter, POS tagger or parser are not required. At feature extraction stage, multiple specifications are c... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of Chinese (No.60675035) and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (No.4072012). | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
mahata-etal-2017-bucc2017 | https://aclanthology.org/W17-2511 | BUCC2017: A Hybrid Approach for Identifying Parallel Sentences in Comparable Corpora | A Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) system is always trained using large parallel corpus to produce effective translation. Not only is the corpus scarce, it also involves a lot of manual labor and cost. Parallel corpus can be prepared by employing comparable corpora where a pair of corpora is in two different langu... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yokoyama-2013-analysis | https://aclanthology.org/2013.mtsummit-wpt.3 | Analysis of parallel structures in patent sentences, focusing on the head words | One of the characteristics of patent sentences is long, complicated modifications. A modification is identified by the presence of a head word in the modifier. We extracted head words with a high occurrence frequency from about 1 million patent sentences. Based on the results, we constructed a modifier correcting syste... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Japio and the committee members for supporting this research and supplying the patent database. | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
schulze-2001-loom | https://aclanthology.org/Y02-1039 | The Loom-LAG for Syntax Analysis : Adding a Language-independent Level to LAG | The left-associative grammar model (LAG) has been applied successfully to the morphologic and syntactic analysis of various european and asian languages. The algebraic definition of the LAG is very well suited for the application to natural language processing as it inherently obeys de Saussure's second law (de Saussur... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2001 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
balahur-turchi-2013-improving | https://aclanthology.org/R13-1007 | Improving Sentiment Analysis in Twitter Using Multilingual Machine Translated Data | Sentiment analysis is currently a very dynamic field in Computational Linguistics. Research herein has concentrated on the development of methods and resources for different types of texts and various languages. Nonetheless, the implementation of a multilingual system that is able to classify sentiment expressed in var... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
lai-etal-2021-supervised | https://aclanthology.org/2021.paclic-1.62 | Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation on Taiwan Hakka Polysemy with Neural Network Models: A Case Study of BUN, TUNG and LAU | This research aims to explore an optimal model for automatic word sense disambiguation for highly polysemous markers BUN, TUNG and LAU in Taiwan Hakka, a low-resource language. The performance of word sense disambiguation tasks is carried out by examining DNN, BiLSTM and CNN models under different window spans. The res... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the PACLIC 2021 anonymous reviewers for the valuable comments on this paper and MOST grant (MOST-108-2410-H-004-050-MY3) for supporting the research discussed herein. | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
abdul-mageed-etal-2020-nadi | https://aclanthology.org/2020.wanlp-1.9 | NADI 2020: The First Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task | We present the results and findings of the First Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task (NADI). This Shared Task includes two subtasks: country-level dialect identification (Subtask 1) and province-level sub-dialect identification (Subtask 2). The data for the shared task covers a total of 100 provinces from... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and Compute Canada (www.computecanada.ca). We thank AbdelRahim Elmadany for assisting with dataset preparation, setting up the Codalab for the shared ... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
chen-kit-2012-higher | https://aclanthology.org/P12-2001 | Higher-order Constituent Parsing and Parser Combination | This paper presents a higher-order model for constituent parsing aimed at utilizing more local structural context to decide the score of a grammar rule instance in a parse tree. Experiments on English and Chinese treebanks confirm its advantage over its first-order version. It achieves its best F1 scores of 91.86% and ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
siddharthan-etal-2011-information | https://aclanthology.org/J11-4007 | Information Status Distinctions and Referring Expressions: An Empirical Study of References to People in News Summaries | Although there has been much theoretical work on using various information status distinctions to explain the form of references in written text, there have been few studies that attempt to automatically learn these distinctions for generating references in the context of computerregenerated text. In this article, we p... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Approaches to Reference (PRE-CogSci 2009). Grice, Paul. 1975. Logic and conversation. In P. Cole and J. L. Morgan, editors, Syntax and Semantics, volume 3. Academic Press, New York, pages 43-58. Grosz, Barbara, Aravind Joshi, and Scott Weinstein. 1995 | 2011 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
cer-etal-2010-best | https://aclanthology.org/N10-1080 | The Best Lexical Metric for Phrase-Based Statistical MT System Optimization | Translation systems are generally trained to optimize BLEU, but many alternative metrics are available. We explore how optimizing toward various automatic evaluation metrics (BLEU, METEOR, NIST, TER) affects the resulting model. We train a state-of-the-art MT system using MERT on many parameterizations of each metric a... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors thank Alon Lavie for suggesting setting α to 0.5 when training to METEOR. This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency through IBM. The content does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred. | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
moran-etal-2018-cross | https://aclanthology.org/L18-1646 | Cross-linguistically Small World Networks are Ubiquitous in Child-directed Speech | In this paper we use network theory to model graphs of child-directed speech from caregivers of children from nine typologically and morphologically diverse languages. With the resulting lexical adjacency graphs, we calculate the network statistics N, E, <k>, L, C and compare them against the standard baseline of the s... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 615988 (PI Sabine Stoll). We gratefully acknowledge Shanley Allen, Aylin Küntay, and Barbara Pfeiler, who provided the Inuktitut, Turkish, and Yucatec data for our an... | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
wittmann-etal-2014-automatic | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/574_Paper.pdf | Automatic Extraction of Synonyms for German Particle Verbs from Parallel Data with Distributional Similarity as a Re-Ranking Feature | We present a method for the extraction of synonyms for German particle verbs based on a word-aligned German-English parallel corpus: by translating the particle verb to a pivot, which is then translated back, a set of synonym candidates can be extracted and ranked according to the respective translation probabilities. ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was funded by the DFG Research Project "Distributional Approaches to Semantic Relatedness" (Moritz Wittmann, Marion Weller) and the DFG Heisenberg Fellowship SCHU-2580/1-1 (Sabine Schulte im Walde). | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
shioda-etal-2017-suggesting | https://aclanthology.org/W17-5911 | Suggesting Sentences for ESL using Kernel Embeddings | Sentence retrieval is an important NLP application for English as a Second Language (ESL) learners. ESL learners are familiar with web search engines, but generic web search results may not be adequate for composing documents in a specific domain. However, if we build our own search system specialized to a domain, it m... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bonin-etal-2020-hbcp | https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.242 | HBCP Corpus: A New Resource for the Analysis of Behavioural Change Intervention Reports | Due to the fast pace at which research reports in behaviour change are published, researchers, consultants and policymakers would benefit from more automatic ways to process these reports. Automatic extraction of the reports' intervention content, population, settings and their results etc. are essential in synthesisin... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | null | 2020 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tauchmann-mieskes-2020-language | https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.822 | Language Agnostic Automatic Summarization Evaluation | So far work on automatic summarization has dealt primarily with English data. Accordingly, evaluation methods were primarily developed with this language in mind. In our work, we present experiments of adapting available evaluation methods such as ROUGE and PYRAMID to non-English data. We base our experiments on variou... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank Yanjun Gao and Rebecca Passonneau for providing the PyrEval code as well as kindly assisting with related questions. This work has been supported by the research center for Digital Communication and Media Innovation (DKMI) and the Institute for Communication and Media (IKUM) at the University of ... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
moreau-vogel-2014-limitations | https://aclanthology.org/C14-1208 | Limitations of MT Quality Estimation Supervised Systems: The Tails Prediction Problem | In this paper we address the question of the reliability of the predictions made by MT Quality Estimation (QE) systems. In particular, we show that standard supervised QE systems, usually trained to minimize MAE, make serious mistakes at predicting the quality of the sentences in the tails of the quality range. We desc... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We are grateful to Lucia Specia, Radu Soricut and Christian Buck, the organizers of the WMT 2012 and 2013 Shared Task on Quality Estimation, for releasing all the data related to the competition, including post-edited sentences, features sets, etc.This research is supported by Science Foundation Ireland (Grant 12/CE/I2... | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ejerhed-1990-swedish | https://aclanthology.org/W89-0102 | A Swedish Clause Grammar And Its Implementation | The paper is concerned with the notion of clause as a basic, minimal unit for the segmentation and processing of natural language. The first part of the paper surveys various criteria for clausehood that have been proposed in theoretical linguistics and computational linguistics, cind pro poses that a clause in English... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1990 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
rubin-vashchilko-2012-identification | https://aclanthology.org/W12-0415 | Identification of Truth and Deception in Text: Application of Vector Space Model to Rhetorical Structure Theory | The paper proposes to use Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) analytic framework to identify systematic differences between deceptive and truthful stories in terms of their coherence and structure. A sample of 36 elicited personal stories, self-ranked as completely truthful or completely deceptive, is manually analyzed b... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | This research is funded by the New Research and Scholarly Initiative Award (10-303) from the Academic Development Fund at Western. | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
venturott-mitkov-2021-fake | https://aclanthology.org/2021.triton-1.16 | Fake News Detection for Portuguese with Deep Learning | The exponential growth of the internet and social media in the past decade gave way to the increase in dissemination of false or misleading information. Since the 2016 US presidential election, the term "fake news" became increasingly popular and this phenomenon has received more attention. In the past years several fa... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | null | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
miao-etal-2020-diverse | https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.92 | A Diverse Corpus for Evaluating and Developing English Math Word Problem Solvers | We present ASDiv (Academia Sinica Diverse MWP Dataset), a diverse (in terms of both language patterns and problem types) English math word problem (MWP) corpus for evaluating the capability of various MWP solvers. Existing MWP corpora for studying AI progress remain limited either in language usage patterns or in probl... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
moreno-ortiz-etal-2002-new | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2002/pdf/181.pdf | New Developments in Ontological Semantics | In this paper we discuss ongoing activity within the approach to natural language processing known as ontological semantics, as defined in Nirenburg and Raskin (forthcoming). After a brief discussion of the principal tenets on which this approach is built, and a revision of extant implementations that have led toward i... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2002 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
guo-etal-2014-crab | https://aclanthology.org/C14-2017 | CRAB 2.0: A text mining tool for supporting literature review in chemical cancer risk assessment | Chemical cancer risk assessment is a literature-dependent task which could greatly benefit from text mining support. In this paper we describe CRAB-the first publicly available tool for supporting the risk assessment workflow. CRAB, currently at version 2.0, facilitates the gathering of relevant literature via PubMed q... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | This work was supported by the Royal Society, Vinnova and the Swedish Research Council. | 2014 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
sun-grishman-2010-semi | https://aclanthology.org/C10-2137 | Semi-supervised Semantic Pattern Discovery with Guidance from Unsupervised Pattern Clusters | We present a simple algorithm for clustering semantic patterns based on distributional similarity and use cluster memberships to guide semi-supervised pattern discovery. We apply this approach to the task of relation extraction. The evaluation results demonstrate that our novel bootstrapping procedure significantly out... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank Prof. Satoshi Sekine for his useful suggestions. | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
nayan-etal-2008-named | https://aclanthology.org/I08-5014 | Named Entity Recognition for Indian Languages | Stub This paper talks about a new approach to recognize named entities for Indian languages. Phonetic matching technique is used to match the strings of different languages on the basis of their similar sounding property. We have tested our system with a comparable corpus of English and Hindi language data. This approa... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors gratefully acknowledge financial assistance from TDIL, MCIT (Govt. of India). | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
mori-2002-stochastic | https://aclanthology.org/C02-1157 | A Stochastic Parser Based on an SLM with Arboreal Context Trees | In this paper, we present a parser based on a stochastic structured language model (SLM) with a exible history reference mechanism. An SLM is an alternative t o a n n-gram model as a language model for a speech recognizer. The advantage of an SLM against an n-gram model is the ability to return the structure of a given... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2002 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
seyffarth-2019-identifying | https://aclanthology.org/W19-0115 | Identifying Participation of Individual Verbs or VerbNet Classes in the Causative Alternation | Verbs that participate in diathesis alternations have different semantics in their different syntactic environments, which need to be distinguished in order to process these verbs and their contexts correctly. We design and implement 8 approaches to the automatic identification of the causative alternation in English (... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The work presented in this paper was financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the CRC 991 "The Structure of Representations in Language, Cognition, and Science". The author wishes to thank Laura Kallmeyer, Kilian Evang, Jakub Waszczuk, and three anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback and he... | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
brooke-etal-2012-building | https://aclanthology.org/W12-2205 | Building Readability Lexicons with Unannotated Corpora | Lexicons of word difficulty are useful for various educational applications, including readability classification and text simplification. In this work, we explore automatic creation of these lexicons using methods which go beyond simple term frequency, but without relying on age-graded texts. In particular, we derive ... | true | [] | [] | Quality Education | null | null | This work was financially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. | 2012 | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhou-etal-2019-unsupervised | https://aclanthology.org/D19-1192 | Unsupervised Context Rewriting for Open Domain Conversation | Context modeling has a pivotal role in open domain conversation. Existing works either use heuristic methods or jointly learn context modeling and response generation with an encoder-decoder framework. This paper proposes an explicit context rewriting method, which rewrites the last utterance by considering context his... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We are thankful to Yue Liu, Sawyer Zeng and Libin Shi for their supportive work. We also gratefully thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
merchant-1993-tipster | https://aclanthology.org/X93-1001 | TIPSTER Program Overview | The task of TIPSTER Phase I was to advance the state of the art in two language technologies, Document Detection and Information Extraction. Document Detection includes two subtasks, routing (running static queries against a stream of new data), and retrieval (running ad hoc queries against archival data). | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1993 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kilgarriff-1997-using | https://aclanthology.org/W97-0122 | Using Word Frequency Lists to Measure Corpus Homogeneity and Similarity between Corpora | How similar are two corpora? A measure of corpus similarity would be very useful for lexicography and language engineering. Word frequency lists are cheap and easy to generate so a measure based on them would be of use as a quick guide in many circumstances; for example, to judge how a newly available corpus related to... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1997 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
song-lee-2017-learning | https://aclanthology.org/E17-2116 | Learning User Embeddings from Emails | Many important email-related tasks, such as email classification or search, highly rely on building quality document representations (e.g., bag-of-words or key phrases) to assist matching and understanding. Despite prior success on representing textual messages, creating quality user representations from emails was ove... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
xiong-etal-2019-open | https://aclanthology.org/D19-1521 | Open Domain Web Keyphrase Extraction Beyond Language Modeling | This paper studies keyphrase extraction in real-world scenarios where documents are from diverse domains and have variant content quality. We curate and release OpenKP, a large scale open domain keyphrase extraction dataset with near one hundred thousand web documents and expert keyphrase annotations. To handle the var... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yu-kubler-2011-filling | https://aclanthology.org/W11-0323 | Filling the Gap: Semi-Supervised Learning for Opinion Detection Across Domains | We investigate the use of Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) in opinion detection both in sparse data situations and for domain adaptation. We show that co-training reaches the best results in an in-domain setting with small labeled data sets, with a maximum absolute gain of 33.5%. For domain transfer, we show that self-tr... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2011 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
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