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rinsche-2004-ltc | https://aclanthology.org/2004.eamt-1.18 | LTC Communicator -- a web-based e-communication tool | Software vendors operating in international markets face two problems: first, products must be localised to meet the requirements of each target country; then there is the need to support diverse customers, where end-users may not speak the same language as the helpdesk. Localisation (new versions of screens, help text... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
mehri-eskenazi-2021-gensf | https://aclanthology.org/2021.sigdial-1.51 | GenSF: Simultaneous Adaptation of Generative Pre-trained Models and Slot Filling | In transfer learning, it is imperative to achieve strong alignment between a pre-trained model and a downstream task. Prior work has done this by proposing task-specific pre-training objectives, which sacrifices the inherent scalability of the transfer learning paradigm. We instead achieve strong alignment by simultane... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ustun-etal-2019-cross | https://aclanthology.org/R19-1140 | Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings for Morphologically Rich Languages | Cross-lingual word embedding models learn a shared vector space for two or more languages so that words with similar meaning are represented by similar vectors regardless of their language. Although the existing models achieve high performance on pairs of morphologically simple languages, they perform very poorly on mo... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
antoine-1996-parsing | https://aclanthology.org/C96-1010 | Parsing spoken language without syntax | Parsing spontaneous speech is a difficult task because of the ungrammatical nature of most spoken utterances. To overpass this problem, we propose in this paper to handle the spoken language without considering syntax. We describe thus a microsemantic parser which is uniquely based on an associative network of semantic... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1996 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
chiang-etal-1995-robust | https://aclanthology.org/J95-3002 | Robust Learning, Smoothing, and Parameter Tying on Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution | Statistical approaches to natural language processing generally obtain the parameters by using the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method. The MLE approaches, however, may fail to achieve good performance in difficult tasks, because the discrimination and robustness issues are not taken into consideration in the es... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research is supported by the R.O.C. National Science Council under NSC 82-0408-E-007-059 project. We would like to thank the Behavior Design Corporation (BDC) for providing us with the parsed corpus. Jing-Shin Chang has given valuable suggestions for writing this paper, in particular for the comparison with Brisco... | 1995 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
gerber-etal-2010-open | https://aclanthology.org/W10-0906 | Open-domain Commonsense Reasoning Using Discourse Relations from a Corpus of Weblog Stories | We present a method of extracting opendomain commonsense knowledge by applying discourse parsing to a large corpus of personal stories written by Internet authors. We demonstrate the use of a linear-time, joint syntax/discourse dependency parser for this purpose, and we show how the extracted discourse relations can be... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. The project or effort described here has been sponsored by the U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM). Statements and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of... | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
martin-1991-conventional | https://aclanthology.org/W91-0206 | Conventional Metaphor and the Lexicon | Metaphor and other forms of non-literal language are essential parts of language which have direct bearing on theories of lexical semantics. Neither narrow theories of lexical semantics, nor theories relying solely on world knowledge are sufficient to account for our ability to generate and interpret non-literal langua... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1991 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
park-etal-2021-blames | https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.358 | Who Blames or Endorses Whom? Entity-to-Entity Directed Sentiment Extraction in News Text | Understanding who blames or supports whom in news text is a critical research question in computational social science. Traditional methods and datasets for sentiment analysis are, however, not suitable for the domain of political text as they do not consider the direction of sentiments expressed between entities. In t... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | We thank anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This work was supported by NSF SBE/SMA #1831848 "RIDIR: Integrated Communication Database and Computational Tools". | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
lee-etal-1990-logic | https://aclanthology.org/O90-1003 | A Logic-based Temporal Knowledge Representation in Mandarin Chinese | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1990 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
hellman-etal-2020-multiple | https://aclanthology.org/2020.bea-1.3 | Multiple Instance Learning for Content Feedback Localization without Annotation | Automated Essay Scoring (AES) can be used to automatically generate holistic scores with reliability comparable to human scoring. In addition, AES systems can provide formative feedback to learners, typically at the essay level. In contrast, we are interested in providing feedback specialized to the content of the essa... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank Alok Baikadi, Julio Bradford, Jill Budden, Amy Burkhardt, Dave Farnham, Andrew Gorman and Jorge Roccatagliata for their efforts in collecting the annotated dataset used in this work. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
stanojevic-simaan-2014-beer | https://aclanthology.org/W14-3354 | BEER: BEtter Evaluation as Ranking | We present the UvA-ILLC submission of the BEER metric to WMT 14 metrics task. BEER is a sentence level metric that can incorporate a large number of features combined in a linear model. Novel contributions are (1) efficient tuning of a large number of features for maximizing correlation with human system ranking, and (... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work is supported by STW grant nr. 12271 and NWO VICI grant nr. 277-89-002. | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ruangrajitpakorn-etal-2009-syntactic | https://aclanthology.org/W09-3414 | A Syntactic Resource for Thai: CG Treebank | This paper presents Thai syntactic resource: Thai CG treebank, a categorial approach of language resources. Since there are very few Thai syntactic resources, we designed to create treebank based on CG formalism. Thai corpus was parsed with existing CG syntactic dictionary and LALR parser. The correct parsed trees were... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ruppenhofer-etal-2020-fine | https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.566 | Fine-grained Named Entity Annotations for German Biographic Interviews | We present a fine-grained NER annotations scheme with 30 labels and apply it to German data. Building on the OntoNotes 5.0 NER inventory, our scheme is adapted for a corpus of transcripts of biographic interviews by adding categories for AGE and LAN(guage) and also adding label classes for various numeric and temporal ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank Hanna Strub for her support in performing the annotations. . and Du-Nour, M. (2004). Wir sind die Letzten. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tanaka-1995-edr | https://aclanthology.org/1995.mtsummit-1.17 | The EDR Electronic Dictionary as information infrastructure | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1995 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
devault-etal-2009-finish | https://aclanthology.org/W09-3902 | Can I Finish? Learning When to Respond to Incremental Interpretation Results in Interactive Dialogue | We investigate novel approaches to responsive overlap behaviors in dialogue systems, opening possibilities for systems to interrupt, acknowledge or complete a user's utterance while it is still in progress. Our specific contributions are a method for determining when a system has reached a point of maximal understandin... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The project or effort described here has been sponsored by the U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM). Statements and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the United States Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred. We would also like to... | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
lembersky-etal-2012-adapting | https://aclanthology.org/E12-1026 | Adapting Translation Models to Translationese Improves SMT | Translation models used for statistical machine translation are compiled from parallel corpora; such corpora are manually translated, but the direction of translation is usually unknown, and is consequently ignored. However, much research in Translation Studies indicates that the direction of translation matters, as tr... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We are grateful to Cyril Goutte, George Foster and Pierre Isabelle for providing us with an annotated version of the Hansard corpus. This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 137/06) and by a grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology. | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yencken-baldwin-2008-measuring | https://aclanthology.org/C08-1131 | Measuring and Predicting Orthographic Associations: Modelling the Similarity of Japanese Kanji | As human beings, our mental processes for recognising linguistic symbols generate perceptual neighbourhoods around such symbols where confusion errors occur. Such neighbourhoods also provide us with conscious mental associations between symbols. This paper formalises orthographic models for similarity of Japanese kanji... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
liu-etal-2019-knowledge-augmented | https://aclanthology.org/N19-1117 | Knowledge-Augmented Language Model and Its Application to Unsupervised Named-Entity Recognition | Traditional language models are unable to efficiently model entity names observed in text. All but the most popular named entities appear infrequently in text providing insufficient context. Recent efforts have recognized that context can be generalized between entity names that share the same type (e.g., person or loc... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
amigo-etal-2004-empirical | https://aclanthology.org/P04-1027 | An Empirical Study of Information Synthesis Task | This paper describes an empirical study of the "Information Synthesis" task, defined as the process of (given a complex information need) extracting, organizing and interrelating the pieces of information contained in a set of relevant documents, in order to obtain a comprehensive, non redundant report that satisfies t... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research has been partially supported by a grant of the Spanish Government, project HERMES (TIC-2000-0335-C03-01). We are indebted to E. Hovy for his comments on an earlier version of this paper, and C. Y. Lin for his assistance with the ROUGE measure. Thanks also to our volunteers for their valuable cooperation. | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
meng-etal-2022-rewire | https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.329 | Rewire-then-Probe: A Contrastive Recipe for Probing Biomedical Knowledge of Pre-trained Language Models | Knowledge probing is crucial for understanding the knowledge transfer mechanism behind the pre-trained language models (PLMs). Despite the growing progress of probing knowledge for PLMs in the general domain, specialised areas such as biomedical domain are vastly under-explored. To facilitate this, we release a well-cu... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | Nigel Collier and Zaiqiao Meng kindly acknowledges grant-in-aid support from the UK ESRC for project EPI-AI (ES/T012277/1). | 2022 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
vincze-2014-uncertainty | https://aclanthology.org/C14-1174 | Uncertainty Detection in Hungarian Texts | Uncertainty detection is essential for many NLP applications. For instance, in information retrieval, it is of primary importance to distinguish among factual, negated and uncertain information. Current research on uncertainty detection has mostly focused on the English language, in contrast, here we present the first ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was supported by the European Union and the State of Hungary, co-financed by the European Social Fund in the framework of TÁMOP-4.2.4.A/2-11/1-2012-0001 "National Excellence Program". | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ferret-1998-thematically-segment | https://aclanthology.org/P98-2243 | How to Thematically Segment Texts by using Lexical Cohesion? | This article outlines a quantitative method for segmenting texts into thematically coherent units. This method relies on a network of lexical collocations to compute the thematic coherence of the different parts of a text from the lexical cohesiveness of their words. We also present the results of an experiment about l... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1998 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
seon-etal-2008-information | https://aclanthology.org/W08-0803 | Information extraction using finite state automata and syllable n-grams in a mobile environment | We propose an information extraction system that is designed for mobile devices with low hardware resources. The proposed system extracts temporal instances (dates and times) and named instances (locations and topics) from Korean short messages in an appointment management domain. To efficiently extract temporal instan... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research (paper) was funded by Samsung Electronics. | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhang-kordoni-2010-discriminant | https://aclanthology.org/C10-2166 | Discriminant Ranking for Efficient Treebanking | Treebank annotation is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task. In this paper, we show that a simple statistical ranking model can significantly improve treebanking efficiency by prompting human annotators, well-trained in disambiguation tasks for treebanking but not necessarily grammar experts, to the most relevant ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tatman-etal-2017-non | https://aclanthology.org/W17-2909 | Non-lexical Features Encode Political Affiliation on Twitter | Previous work on classifying Twitter users' political alignment has mainly focused on lexical and social network features. This study provides evidence that political affiliation is also reflected in features which have been previously overlooked: users' discourse patterns (proportion of Tweets that are retweets or rep... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | null | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
choi-etal-1996-logical | https://aclanthology.org/Y96-1014 | A Logical Structure for the Construction of Machine Readable Dictionaries | During the last 10 years, there have been many efforts in some areas of Natural Language Processing to encode the normal text or documents into machine readable form. If we encode written data using a canonical form which can be recognized by a computer, we can extract needed information and process and utilize it for ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The research described here was undertaken as a part of the project 'Korea Information Base System' by the support of Ministry of Science & Technology and Ministry of Culture & Sports in Korea and the project 'Multimedia Hangeul Engineering' supported by Samsung Co.. | 1996 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
brody-2007-clustering | https://aclanthology.org/P07-1057 | Clustering Clauses for High-Level Relation Detection: An Information-theoretic Approach | Recently, there has been a rise of interest in unsupervised detection of highlevel semantic relations involving complex units, such as phrases and whole sentences. Typically such approaches are faced with two main obstacles: data sparseness and correctly generalizing from the examples. In this work, we describe the Clu... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The author acknowledges the support of EPSRC grant EP/C538447/1. The author would like to thank Naftali Tishby and Mirella Lapata for their supervision and assistance on large portions of the work presented here. I would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers and my friends and colleagues for their helpful comments... | 2007 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
husain-etal-2013-towards | https://aclanthology.org/W13-3713 | Towards a Psycholinguistically Motivated Dependency Grammar for Hindi | The overall goal of our work is to build a dependency grammar-based human sentence processor for Hindi. As a first step towards this end, in this paper we present a dependency grammar that is motivated by psycholinguistic concerns. We describe the components of the grammar that have been automatically induced using a H... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
hassan-etal-2010-whats | https://aclanthology.org/D10-1121 | What's with the Attitude? Identifying Sentences with Attitude in Online Discussions | Mining sentiment from user generated content is a very important task in Natural Language Processing. An example of such content is threaded discussions which act as a very important tool for communication and collaboration in the Web. Threaded discussions include e-mails, e-mail lists, bulletin boards, newsgroups, and... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was funded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), through the U.S. Army Research Lab. All statements of fact, opinion or conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be construed as representing the o... | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
gaskill-2014-reducing | https://aclanthology.org/2014.amta-users.2 | Reducing time and tedium with translation technology: the six-pound challenge | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
woods-fernando-2018-improving | https://aclanthology.org/W18-4709 | Improving String Processing for Temporal Relations | This paper presents a refinement of the superposition operation on strings which are used to represent temporal relation information such as is found in documents annotated with TimeML. Superposition is made demonstrably more efficient by interleaving generation with testing, rather than generating and then testing. Th... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research is supported by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) through the CNGL Programme (Grant 12/CE/I2267) in the ADAPT Centre (https://www.adaptcentre.ie) at Trinity College Dublin. The ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology is funded under the SFI Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106) and is co-funded... | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kehler-etal-2004-non | https://aclanthology.org/N04-1037 | The (Non)Utility of Predicate-Argument Frequencies for Pronoun Interpretation | State-of-the-art pronoun interpretation systems rely predominantly on morphosyntactic contextual features. While the use of deep knowledge and inference to improve these models would appear technically infeasible, previous work has suggested that predicate-argument statistics mined from naturally-occurring data could p... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported by the ACE program (www.nist.gov/speech/tests/ACE/). | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
sandrini-etal-2006-maximum | https://aclanthology.org/W06-2601 | Maximum Entropy Tagging with Binary and Real-Valued Features | Recent literature on text-tagging reported successful results by applying Maximum Entropy (ME) models. In general, ME taggers rely on carefully selected binary features, which try to capture discriminant information from the training data. This paper introduces a standard setting of binary features, inspired by the lit... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was partially financed by the European Commission under the project FAME (IST-2000-29323), and by the Autonomous Province of Trento under the the FU-PAT project WebFaq. | 2006 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
thompson-1981-chart | https://aclanthology.org/P81-1036 | Chart Parsing and Rule Schemata in PSG | MCHART is a flexible, modular chart parsing framework I have been developing (in Lisp) at Edinburgh, whose initial design characteristics were largely determined by pedagogical needs.
PSG is a gr---n-tical theory developed by Gerald Gazdar at Sussex, in collaboration with others in both the US and Britain, most notably... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1981 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
mutal-etal-2020-copeco | https://aclanthology.org/2020.amta-pemdt.5 | COPECO: a Collaborative Post-Editing Corpus in Pedagogical Context | null | true | [] | [] | Quality Education | null | null | null | 2020 | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
li-etal-2021-ease | https://aclanthology.org/2021.newsum-1.10 | EASE: Extractive-Abstractive Summarization End-to-End using the Information Bottleneck Principle | Current abstractive summarization systems outperform their extractive counterparts, but their widespread adoption is inhibited by the inherent lack of interpretability. Extractive summarization systems, though interpretable, suffer from redundancy and possible lack of coherence. To achieve the best of both worlds, we p... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kane-etal-2020-nubia | https://aclanthology.org/2020.evalnlgeval-1.4 | NUBIA: NeUral Based Interchangeability Assessor for Text Generation | We present NUBIA, a methodology to build automatic evaluation metrics for text generation using only machine learning models as core components. A typical NUBIA model is composed of three modules: a neural feature extractor, an aggregator and a calibrator. We demonstrate an implementation of NUBIA showing competitive p... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
florian-yarowsky-1999-dynamic | https://aclanthology.org/P99-1022 | Dynamic Nonlocal Language Modeling via Hierarchical Topic-Based Adaptation | This paper presents a novel method of generating and applying hierarchical, dynamic topic-based language models. It proposes and evaluates new cluster generation, hierarchical smoothing and adaptive topic-probability estimation techniques. These combined models help capture long-distance lexical dependencies. °Experime... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The research reported here was sponsored by National Science Foundation Grant IRI-9618874. The authors would like to thank Eric Brill, Eugene Charniak, Ciprian Chelba, Fred Jelinek, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Lidia Mangu and Jun Wu for suggestions and feedback during the progress of this work, and Andreas Stolcke for use of hi... | 1999 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
coling-2008-coling-2008 | https://aclanthology.org/C08-3000 | Coling 2008: Companion volume: Demonstrations | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhang-etal-2018-neural-coreference | https://aclanthology.org/P18-2017 | Neural Coreference Resolution with Deep Biaffine Attention by Joint Mention Detection and Mention Clustering | Coreference resolution aims to identify in a text all mentions that refer to the same real-world entity. The state-of-the-art endto-end neural coreference model considers all text spans in a document as potential mentions and learns to link an antecedent for each possible mention. In this paper, we propose to improve t... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Kenton Lee and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful discussion and feedback. | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
litman-forbes-riley-2004-predicting | https://aclanthology.org/P04-1045 | Predicting Student Emotions in Computer-Human Tutoring Dialogues | We examine the utility of speech and lexical features for predicting student emotions in computerhuman spoken tutoring dialogues. We first annotate student turns for negative, neutral, positive and mixed emotions. We then extract acoustic-prosodic features from the speech signal, and lexical items from the transcribed ... | true | [] | [] | Quality Education | null | null | This research is supported by NSF Grants 9720359 & 0328431. Thanks to the Why2-Atlas team and S. Silliman for system design and data collection. | 2004 | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhao-etal-2019-embedding | https://aclanthology.org/D19-1669 | Embedding Lexical Features via Tensor Decomposition for Small Sample Humor Recognition | We propose a novel tensor embedding method that can effectively extract lexical features for humor recognition. Specifically, we use wordword co-occurrence to encode the contextual content of documents, and then decompose the tensor to get corresponding vector representations. We show that this simple method can captur... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
saxon-etal-2021-modeling | https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.153 | Modeling Disclosive Transparency in NLP Application Descriptions | Broader disclosive transparency-truth and clarity in communication regarding the function of AI systems-is widely considered desirable. Unfortunately, it is a nebulous concept, difficult to both define and quantify. This is problematic, as previous work has demonstrated possible trade-offs and negative consequences to ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. 1650114. We would also like to | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
udagawa-etal-2020-linguistic | https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.67 | A Linguistic Analysis of Visually Grounded Dialogues Based on Spatial Expressions | Recent models achieve promising results in visually grounded dialogues. However, existing datasets often contain undesirable biases and lack sophisticated linguistic analyses, which make it difficult to understand how well current models recognize their precise linguistic structures. To address this problem, we make tw... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18H03297 and NEDO SIP-2 "Bigdata and AI-enabled Cyberspace Technologies." We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions and comments. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
sazzed-2021-hybrid | https://aclanthology.org/2021.ranlp-1.144 | A Hybrid Approach of Opinion Mining and Comparative Linguistic Analysis of Restaurant Reviews | The existing research on sentiment analysis mainly utilized data curated in limited geographical regions and demography (e.g., USA, UK, China) due to commercial interest and availability of review data. Since the user's attitudes and preferences can be affected by numerous sociocultural factors and demographic characte... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The author likes to thank Md. Samiul Basir Tasin and MD Shafin Islam Rudro for collecting BanglaRestaurant review data. The conference registration fee was supported by the ISAB VISA Scholarship of Old Dominion University. | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
liu-etal-2021-quadrupletbert | https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.292 | QuadrupletBERT: An Efficient Model For Embedding-Based Large-Scale Retrieval | The embedding-based large-scale querydocument retrieval problem is a hot topic in the information retrieval (IR) field. Considering that pre-trained language models like BERT have achieved great success in a wide variety of NLP tasks, we present a Quadru-pletBERT model for effective and efficient retrieval in this pape... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ircing-etal-2017-combining | https://aclanthology.org/W17-5021 | Combining Textual and Speech Features in the NLI Task Using State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Techniques | We summarize the involvement of our CEMI team in the "NLI Shared Task 2017", which deals with both textual and speech input data. We submitted the results achieved by using three different system architectures; each of them combines multiple supervised learning models trained on various feature sets. As expected, bette... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
richardson-kuhn-2012-light | https://aclanthology.org/C12-2098 | Light Textual Inference for Semantic Parsing | There has been a lot of recent interest in Semantic Parsing, centering on using data-driven techniques for mapping natural language to full semantic representations (Mooney, 2007). One particular focus has been on learning with ambiguous supervision (Chen and Mooney, 2008; Kim and Mooney, 2012), where the goal is to mo... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) on the project SFB 732, "Incremental Specification in Context". We thank Sina Zarriess for useful suggestions and discussions, and Annie Zaenen and Cleo Condoravdi for earlier discussions about the overall idea and method. | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
jin-aletras-2020-complaint | https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.157 | Complaint Identification in Social Media with Transformer Networks | Complaining is a speech act extensively used by humans to communicate a negative inconsistency between reality and expectations. Previous work on automatically identifying complaints in social media has focused on using feature-based and task-specific neural network models. Adapting state-of-the-art pre-trained neural ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Nikolaos Aletras is supported by ESRC grant ES/T012714/1. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bojar-etal-2012-joy | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/645_Paper.pdf | The Joy of Parallelism with CzEng 1.0 | CzEng 1.0 is an updated release of our Czech-English parallel corpus, freely available for non-commercial research or educational purposes. In this release, we approximately doubled the corpus size, reaching 15 million sentence pairs (about 200 million tokens per language). More importantly, we carefully filtered the d... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The work on this project was supported by the project EuroMatrixPlus (FP7-ICT-2007-3-231720 of the EU and 7E09003+7E11051 of the Czech Republic), Czech Science Foundation grants P406/10/P259 and 201/09/H057, GAUK 4226/2011, 116310, and the FAUST project (FP7-ICT-2009-4-247762 of the EU and 7E11041 of the Czech Republic... | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
vilain-2004-building | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2004/pdf/763.pdf | Building part-of-speech Corpora Through Histogram Hopping | This paper are concerned with lowering the cost of producing training resources for part-of-speech taggers. We focus primarily on the resource needs of unsupervised taggers, as these can be trained with simpler resources than their supervised counterparts. We introduce histogram hopping, a new approach for developing t... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhou-etal-2020-improving-candidate | https://aclanthology.org/2020.tacl-1.8 | Improving Candidate Generation for Low-resource Cross-lingual Entity Linking | Cross-lingual entity linking (XEL) is the task of finding referents in a target-language knowledge base (KB) for mentions extracted from source-language texts. The first step of (X)EL is candidate generation, which retrieves a list of plausible candidate entities from the target-language KB for each mention. Approaches... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank Radu Florian and the anonymous reviewers for their useful feedback. This material is based on work supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Information Innovation Office (I2O) Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents (LORELEI) program under contract no. HR0011-15-C0... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
john-vechtomova-2017-uwat | https://aclanthology.org/W17-5235 | UWat-Emote at EmoInt-2017: Emotion Intensity Detection using Affect Clues, Sentiment Polarity and Word Embeddings | This paper describes the UWaterloo affect prediction system developed for EmoInt-2017. We delve into our feature selection approach for affect intensity, affect presence, sentiment intensity and sentiment presence lexica alongside pretrained word embeddings, which are utilized to extract emotion intensity signals from ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to acknowledge the organizers of this shared task, Saif M. Mohammad and Felipe Bravo-Marquez for their support.We would also like to thank Saif M. Mohammad and Pierre Charron for permitting access to the NRC emotion and sentiment lexicons for this task. | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
crego-marino-2006-integration | https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.4 | Integration of POStag-based Source Reordering into SMT Decoding by an Extended Search Graph | This paper presents a reordering framework for statistical machine translation (SMT) where source-side reorderings are integrated into SMT decoding, allowing for a highly constrained reordered search graph. The monotone search is extended by means of a set of reordering patterns (linguistically motivated rewrite patter... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work has been partially funded by the European Union under the integrated project TC-STAR -Technology and Corpora for Speech to Speech Translation -(IST-2002-FP6-506738, http://www.tc-star.org), and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya under UPC-RECERCA grant. | 2006 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
badr-etal-2008-segmentation | https://aclanthology.org/P08-2039 | Segmentation for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation | In this paper, we report on a set of initial results for English-to-Arabic Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We show that morphological decomposition of the Arabic source is beneficial, especially for smaller-size corpora, and investigate different recombination techniques. We also report on the use of Factored Tr... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank Ali Mohammad, Michael Collins and Stephanie Seneff for their valuable comments. | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
gaiffe-romary-1997-constraints | https://aclanthology.org/W97-1413 | Constraints on the Use of Language, Gesture and Speech for Multimodal Dialogues | In the domain of natural language understanding and more precisely manmachine dialogue design, there are usually two trends of research which seem to be rather differentiated. On the one hand, many studies have tackled the problem of interpreting spatial references expressed in verbal utterances, focusing in particular... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1997 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
feng-etal-2021-alpha | https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.8 | Alpha at SemEval-2021 Task 6: Transformer Based Propaganda Classification | This paper describes our system participated in Task 6 of SemEval-2021: this task focuses on multimodal propaganda technique classification and it aims to classify given image and text into 22 classes. In this paper, we propose to use transformer-based (Vaswani et al., 2017) architecture to fuse the clues from both ima... | 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 |
pettersson-megyesi-2019-matching | https://aclanthology.org/W19-6126 | Matching Keys and Encrypted Manuscripts | Historical cryptology is the study of historical encrypted messages aiming at their decryption by analyzing the mathematical, linguistic and other coding patterns and their historical context. In libraries and archives we can find quite a lot of ciphers, as well as keys describing the method used to transform the plain... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work has been supported by the Swedish Research Council, grant 2018-06074: DECRYPT -Decryption of historical manuscripts. | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bjorkelund-nugues-2011-exploring | https://aclanthology.org/W11-1905 | Exploring Lexicalized Features for Coreference Resolution | In this paper, we describe a coreference solver based on the extensive use of lexical features and features extracted from dependency graphs of the sentences. The solver uses Soon et al. (2001)'s classical resolution algorithm based on a pairwise classification of the mentions. We applied this solver to the closed trac... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was supported by Vetenskapsrådet, the Swedish research council, under grant 621-2010-4800. | 2011 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
richardson-etal-2001-overcoming | https://aclanthology.org/W01-1402 | Overcoming the customization bottleneck using example-based MT | We describe MSR-MT, a large-scale hybrid machine translation system under development for several language pairs. This system's ability to acquire its primary translation knowledge automatically by parsing a bilingual corpus of hundreds of thousands of sentence pairs and aligning resulting logical forms demonstrates tr... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to acknowledge the efforts of the MSR NLP group in carrying out this work. | 2001 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
manino-etal-2022-systematicity | https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.185 | Systematicity, Compositionality and Transitivity of Deep NLP Models: a Metamorphic Testing Perspective | Metamorphic testing has recently been used to check the safety of neural NLP models. Its main advantage is that it does not rely on a ground truth to generate test cases. However, existing studies are mostly concerned with robustness-like metamorphic relations, limiting the scope of linguistic properties they can test.... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The work is funded by the EPSRC grant EP/T026995/1 entitled "EnnCore: End-to-End Conceptual Guarding of Neural Architectures" under Security for all in an AI enabled society. | 2022 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zoltan-1969-problems | https://aclanthology.org/C69-5901 | Some Problems of Word-Formation Within the Framework of a Generative Grammar | Word-formation has not yet received due attention in ~enerative grammars, probably becal~se it is an interim problem between that of the more-or-less clearly established ~orpho-phonological possibilities and the problem of the lexicon, which h~s not yet been worked out (re~ardin~ wor@formation see the productive attemp... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1969 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
evang-2020-configurable | https://aclanthology.org/2020.udw-1.10 | Configurable Dependency Tree Extraction from CCG Derivations | We revisit the problem of extracting dependency structures from the derivation structures of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG). Previous approaches are often restricted to a narrow subset of CCG or support only one flavor of dependency tree. Our approach is more general and easily configurable, so that multiple styl... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The author would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for helpful feedback. This research was carried out within the TreeGraSP project, funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kis-etal-2004-new | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2004/pdf/441.pdf | A New Approach to the Corpus-based Statistical Investigation of Hungarian Multi-word Lexemes | We apply statistical methods to perform automatic extraction of Hungarian collocations from corpora. Due to the complexity of Hungarian morphology, a complex resource preparation tool chain has been developed. This tool chain implements a reusable and, in principle, language independent framework. In the first part, th... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work has been carried out in parallel with similar work on Dutch corpora by a joint Dutch-Hungarian research group supported by NWO-OTKA under grant number 048.011.040. | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
babych-etal-2007-dynamic | https://aclanthology.org/2007.tc-1.3 | A dynamic dictionary for discovering indirect translation equivalents | We present the design and evaluation of a novel software application intended to help translators with rendering problematic expressions from the general lexicon. It does this dynamically by first generalising the problem expression in the source language and then searching for possible translations in a large comparab... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the professional translators who kindly participated in our evaluation trials. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/C005902/1 and was conducted jointly with Paul Rayson. Olga Moudraya and Scott Piao of Lancaster University InfoLab. | 2007 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
gorrell-etal-2013-finding | https://aclanthology.org/W13-5102 | Finding Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia in Patient Records | This paper reports the automatic extraction of eleven negative symptoms of schizophrenia from patient medical records. The task offers a range of difficulties depending on the consistency and complexity with which mental health professionals describe each. In order to reduce the cost of system development, rapid protot... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | null | 2013 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
akiba-etal-2008-statistical | https://aclanthology.org/I08-2104 | Statistical Machine Translation based Passage Retrieval for Cross-Lingual Question Answering | In this paper, we propose a novel approach for Cross-Lingual Question Answering (CLQA). In the proposed method, the statistical machine translation (SMT) is deeply incorporated into the question answering process, instead of using it as the pre-processing of the mono-lingual QA process as in the previous work. The prop... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
pasca-harabagiu-2001-answer | https://aclanthology.org/W01-1206 | Answer Mining from On-Line Documents | Mining the answer of a natural language open-domain question in a large collection of on-line documents is made possible by the recognition of the expected answer type in relevant text passages. If the technology of retrieving texts where the answer might be found is well developed, few studies have been devoted to the... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was supported in part by the Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) grant 2001*H238400*000 and by the National Science Foundation CAREER grant CCR-9983600. | 2001 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
chang-etal-1992-statistical | https://aclanthology.org/C92-3139 | A Statistical Approach to Machine Aided Translation of Terminology Banks | "l]fis paper reports on a new statistical approach to machine aided translation of terminology bank. The text in the bank is hyphenated and then dissected into roots of 1 to 3 syllables. Both hyphenation and dissection are done with a set of initial probabilities of syllables and roots. The probabilities are repeatedly... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was supported by the National Science Council, Taiwan, under Contracts NSC 81-0408-E007-13 and -529. | 1992 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
handler-oconnor-2019-query | https://aclanthology.org/D19-1612 | Query-focused Sentence Compression in Linear Time | Search applications often display shortened sentences which must contain certain query terms and must fit within the space constraints of a user interface. This work introduces a new transition-based sentence compression technique developed for such settings. Our query-focused method constructs length and lexically con... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Thanks to Javier Burroni and Nick Eubank for suggesting ways to optimize and measure performance of Python code. Thanks to Jeffrey Flanigan, Katie Keith and the UMass NLP reading group for feedback. This work was partially supported by IIS-1814955. | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
viegas-etal-1998-computational-lexical | https://aclanthology.org/P98-2216 | The Computational Lexical Semantics of Syntagmatic Expressions | In this paper, we address the issue of syntagmatic expressions from a computational lexical semantic perspective. From a representational viewpoint, we argue for a hybrid approach combining linguistic and conceptual paradigms, in order to account for the continuum we find in natural languages from free combining words ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work has been supported in part by DoD under contract number MDA-904-92-C-5189. We would like to thank Pierrette Bouillon, L~o Wanner and R~mi Zajac for helpful discussions and the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments. | 1998 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tanveer-ture-2018-syntaviz | https://aclanthology.org/D18-2001 | SyntaViz: Visualizing Voice Queries through a Syntax-Driven Hierarchical Ontology | This paper describes SYNTAVIZ, a visualization interface specifically designed for analyzing natural-language queries that were created by users of a voice-enabled product. SYN-TAVIZ provides a platform for browsing the ontology of user queries from a syntax-driven perspective, providing quick access to highimpact fail... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
pajas-stepanek-2009-system | https://aclanthology.org/P09-4009 | System for Querying Syntactically Annotated Corpora | This paper presents a system for querying treebanks. The system consists of a powerful query language with natural support for cross-layer queries, a client interface with a graphical query builder and visualizer of the results, a command-line client interface, and two substitutable query engines: a very efficient engi... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This paper as well as the development of the system is supported by the grant Information Society of GA AVČR under contract 1ET101120503 and by the grant GAUK No. 22908. | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
shwartz-etal-2017-hypernyms | https://aclanthology.org/E17-1007 | Hypernyms under Siege: Linguistically-motivated Artillery for Hypernymy Detection | The fundamental role of hypernymy in NLP has motivated the development of many methods for the automatic identification of this relation, most of which rely on word distribution. We investigate an extensive number of such unsupervised measures, using several distributional semantic models that differ by context type an... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors would like to thank Ido Dagan, Alessandro Lenci, and Yuji Matsumoto for their help and advice. Vered Shwartz is partially supported by an Intel ICRI-CI grant, the Israel Science Foundation grant 880/12, and the German Research Foundation through the German-Israeli Project Cooperation (DIP, grant DA 1600/1-1... | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
mendes-etal-2010-named | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/pdf/97_Paper.pdf | Named Entity Recognition in Questions: Towards a Golden Collection | Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a relevant role in several Natural Language Processing tasks. Question-Answering (QA) is an example of such, since answers are frequently named entities in agreement with the semantic category expected by a given question. In this context, the recognition of named entities is usuall... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
li-etal-2010-transferring | https://aclanthology.org/2010.amta-papers.26 | Transferring Syntactic Relations of Subject-Verb-Object Pattern in Chinese-to-Korean SMT | Since most Korean postpositions signal grammatical functions such as syntactic relations, generation of incorrect Korean postpositions results in producing ungrammatical outputs in machine translations targeting Korean. Chinese and Korean belong to morphosyntactically divergent language pairs, and usually Korean postpo... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work is supported in part by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) (2009-0075211), in part by the BK 21 project in 2010, and in part by the POSTECH Information Research Laboratories (PIRL) project. | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhang-etal-2021-textoir | https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-demo.20 | TEXTOIR: An Integrated and Visualized Platform for Text Open Intent Recognition | TEXTOIR is the first integrated and visualized platform for text open intent recognition. It is composed of two main modules: open intent detection and open intent discovery. Each module integrates most of the state-of-the-art algorithms and benchmark intent datasets. It also contains an overall framework connecting th... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work is founded by National Key R&D Program Projects of China (Grant No: 2018YFC1707605). This work is also supported by seed fund of Tsinghua University (Department of Computer Science and Technology)-Siemens Ltd., China Joint Research Center for Industrial Intelligence and Internet of Things. We would like to th... | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yang-etal-2020-streaming | https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.366 | A Streaming Approach For Efficient Batched Beam Search | We propose an efficient batching strategy for variable-length decoding on GPU architectures. During decoding, when candidates terminate or are pruned according to heuristics, our streaming approach periodically "refills" the batch before proceeding with a selected subset of candidates. We apply our method to variable-w... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Steven Cao, Daniel Fried, Nikita Kitaev, Kevin Lin, Mitchell Stern, Kyle Swanson, Ruiqi Zhong, and the three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and feedback, which helped us to greatly improve the paper. This work was supported by Berkeley AI Research, DARPA through the Learning with Less Labeling ... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yeung-kartsaklis-2021-ccg | https://aclanthology.org/2021.semspace-1.3 | A CCG-Based Version of the DisCoCat Framework | While the DisCoCat model (Coecke et al., 2010) has been proved a valuable tool for studying compositional aspects of language at the level of semantics, its strong dependency on pregroup grammars poses important restrictions: first, it prevents large-scale experimentation due to the absence of a pregroup parser; and se... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments. We are grateful to Steve Clark for his comments on CCG and the useful discussions on the generative power of the formalism. The paper has also greatly benefited from discussions with Alexis Toumi, Vincent Wang, Ian Fan, Harny Wang, Giovanni de Fe... | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
pericliev-1984-handling | https://aclanthology.org/P84-1111 | Handling Syntactical Ambiguity in Machine Translation | The difficulties to be met with the resolution of syntactical ambiguity in MT can be at least partially overcome by means of preserving the syntactical ambiguity of the source language into the target language. An extensive study of the correspondences between the syntactically ambiguous structures in English and Bulga... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1984 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
wiren-1987-comparison | https://aclanthology.org/E87-1037 | A Comparison of Rule-Invocation Strategies in Context-Free Chart Parsing | Currently several grammatical formalisms converge towards being declarative and towards utilizing context-free phrase-structure grammar as a backbone, e.g. LFG and PATR-II. Typically the processing of these formalisms is organized within a chart-parsing framework. The declarative character of the formalisms makes it im... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | I would like to thank Lars Ahrenberg, Nils Dahlb~k, Arne Jbnsson, Magnus Merkel, Ivan Rankin, and an anonymous referee for the very helpful comments they have made on various drafts of this paper. In addition I am indebted to Masaru Tomita for providing me with his test grammars and sentences, and to Martin Kay for com... | 1987 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
weller-di-marco-fraser-2020-modeling | https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.389 | Modeling Word Formation in English--German Neural Machine Translation | This paper studies strategies to model word formation in NMT using rich linguistic information, namely a word segmentation approach that goes beyond splitting into substrings by considering fusional morphology. Our linguistically sound segmentation is combined with a method for target-side inflection to accommodate mod... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was partially funded by LMU Munich's Institutional Strategy LMUexcellent within the framework of the German Excellence Initiative. This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement № 640550)... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
dai-etal-2021-ultra | https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.141 | Ultra-Fine Entity Typing with Weak Supervision from a Masked Language Model | Recently, there is an effort to extend finegrained entity typing by using a richer and ultra-fine set of types, and labeling noun phrases including pronouns and nominal nouns instead of just named entity mentions. A key challenge for this ultra-fine entity typing task is that human annotated data are extremely scarce, ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This paper was supported by the NSFC Grant (No. U20B2053) from China, the Early Career Scheme (ECS, No. 26206717), the General Research Fund (GRF, No. 16211520), and the Research Impact Fund (RIF, from the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, with special thanks to the WeChat-HKUST WHAT Lab on Artificial Intelli... | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
weller-heid-2012-analyzing | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/817_Paper.pdf | Analyzing and Aligning German compound nouns | In this paper, we present and evaluate an approach for the compositional alignment of compound nouns using comparable corpora from technical domains. The task of term alignment consists in relating a source language term to its translation in a list of target language terms with the help of a bilingual dictionary. Comp... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007(FP7/ -2013 under Grant Agreement n. 248005. | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
poesio-vieira-1998-corpus | https://aclanthology.org/J98-2001 | A Corpus-based Investigation of Definite Description Use | We present the results of a study of the use of definite descriptions in written texts aimed at assessing the feasibility of annotating corpora with information about definite description interpretation. We ran two experiments, in which subjects were asked to classi~ the uses of definite descriptions in a corpus of 33 ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We wish to thank Jean Carletta for much help both with designing the experiments and with the analysis of the results. We are also grateful to Ellen Bard, Robin Cooper, Kari Fraurud, Janet Hitzeman, Kjetil Strand, and our anonymous reviewers for many helpful comments. Massimo Poesio holds an Advanced Research Fellowshi... | 1998 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
seonwoo-etal-2021-weakly | https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-acl.62 | Weakly Supervised Pre-Training for Multi-Hop Retriever | In multi-hop QA, answering complex questions entails iterative document retrieval for finding the missing entity of the question. The main steps of this process are sub-question detection, document retrieval for the subquestion, and generation of a new query for the final document retrieval. However, building a dataset... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was partly supported by NAVER Corp. and Institute for Information & communications Technology Planning & Evaluation(IITP) grant funded by the Korean government(MSIT) (No. 2017-0-01780, The technology development for event recognition/relational reasoning and learning knowledge based system for video understan... | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
barnes-etal-2016-exploring | https://aclanthology.org/C16-1152 | Exploring Distributional Representations and Machine Translation for Aspect-based Cross-lingual Sentiment Classification. | Cross-lingual sentiment classification (CLSC) seeks to use resources from a source language in order to detect sentiment and classify text in a target language. Almost all research into CLSC has been carried out at sentence and document level, although this level of granularity is often less useful. This paper explores... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
van-kuppevelt-1993-intentionality | https://aclanthology.org/W93-0236 | Intentionality in a Topical Approach of Discourse Structure | Position paper The alternative to be outlined provides a proposal to solve a central problem in research on discourse structure and discourse coherence, namely, as pointed out by many authors, that of the relationship between linguistic and intentional structure, or, in other words, between subject matter and presentat... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1993 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
liu-etal-2021-improving-factual | https://aclanthology.org/2021.ecnlp-1.19 | Improving Factual Consistency of Abstractive Summarization on Customer Feedback | E-commerce stores collect customer feedback to let sellers learn about customer concerns and enhance customer order experience. Because customer feedback often contains redundant information, a concise summary of the feedback can be generated to help sellers better understand the issues causing customer dissatisfaction... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
abnar-etal-2018-experiential | https://aclanthology.org/W18-0107 | Experiential, Distributional and Dependency-based Word Embeddings have Complementary Roles in Decoding Brain Activity | We evaluate 8 different word embedding models on their usefulness for predicting the neural activation patterns associated with concrete nouns. The models we consider include an experiential model, based on crowd-sourced association data, several popular neural and distributional models, and a model that reflects the s... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | null | 2018 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
buechel-etal-2019-time | https://aclanthology.org/D19-5103 | A Time Series Analysis of Emotional Loading in Central Bank Statements | We examine the affective content of central bank press statements using emotion analysis. Our focus is on two major international players, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal Reserve Bank (Fed), covering a time span from 1998 through 2019. We reveal characteristic patterns in the emotional dimensions of ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their detailed and constructive comments. | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
le-nagard-koehn-2010-aiding | https://aclanthology.org/W10-1737 | Aiding Pronoun Translation with Co-Reference Resolution | We propose a method to improve the translation of pronouns by resolving their coreference to prior mentions. We report results using two different co-reference resolution methods and point to remaining challenges. | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported by the EuroMatrixPlus project funded by the European Commission (7th Framework Programme). | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
chen-etal-2019-expanding | https://aclanthology.org/W19-7415 | Expanding English and Chinese Dictionaries by Wikipedia Titles | This paper introduces our preliminary work in dictionary expansion by adding English and Chinese Wikipedia titles along with their linguistic features. Parts-of-speech of Chinese titles are determined by the majority of heads of their Wikipedia categories. Proper noun detection in English Wikipedia is done by checking ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was funded by the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (grant: MOST 106-2221-E-019-072.) | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bashier-etal-2021-disk | https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.263 | DISK-CSV: Distilling Interpretable Semantic Knowledge with a Class Semantic Vector | Neural networks (NN) applied to natural language processing (NLP) are becoming deeper and more complex, making them increasingly difficult to understand and interpret. Even in applications of limited scope on fixed data, the creation of these complex "black-boxes" creates substantial challenges for debugging, understan... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We acknowledge support from the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII), from the Computing Science Department of the University of Alberta, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
belyaev-etal-2021-digitizing | https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwclul-1.7 | Digitizing print dictionaries using TEI: The Abaev Dictionary Project | We present the results of a year-long effort to create an electronic version of V. I. Abaev's Historical-etymological dictionary of Ossetic. The aim of the project is twofold: first, to create an English translation of the dictionary; second, to provide it (in both its Russian and English version) with a semantic marku... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
dybkjaer-dybkjaer-2006-act | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/471_pdf.pdf | Act-Topic Patterns for Automatically Checking Dialogue Models | When dialogue models are evaluated today, this is normally done by using some evaluation method to collect data, often involving users interacting with the system model, and then subsequently analysing the collected data. We present a tool called DialogDesigner that enables automatic evaluation performed directly on th... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2006 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhou-etal-2016-evaluating | https://aclanthology.org/L16-1104 | Evaluating a Deterministic Shift-Reduce Neural Parser for Constituent Parsing | Greedy transition-based parsers are appealing for their very fast speed, with reasonably high accuracies. In this paper, we build a fast shift-reduce neural constituent parser by using a neural network to make local decisions. One challenge to the parsing speed is the large hidden and output layer sizes caused by the n... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
krahmer-van-der-sluis-2003-new | https://aclanthology.org/W03-2307 | A New Model for Generating Multimodal Referring Expressions | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2003 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
yang-etal-2014-towards | https://aclanthology.org/W14-4104 | Towards Identifying the Resolvability of Threads in MOOCs | One important function of the discussion forums of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is for students to post problems they are unable to resolve and receive help from their peers and instructors. There are a large proportion of threads that are not resolved to the satisfaction of the students for various reasons. In ... | true | [] | [] | Quality Education | null | null | This research was funded in part by NSF grants IIS-1320064 and OMA-0836012 and funding from Google. | 2014 | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
li-nenkova-2014-reducing | https://aclanthology.org/W14-4327 | Reducing Sparsity Improves the Recognition of Implicit Discourse Relations | The earliest work on automatic detection of implicit discourse relations relied on lexical features. More recently, researchers have demonstrated that syntactic features are superior to lexical features for the task. In this paper we reexamine the two classes of state of the art representations: syntactic production ru... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
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