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mehri-eskenazi-2020-usr | https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.64 | USR: An Unsupervised and Reference Free Evaluation Metric for Dialog Generation | The lack of meaningful automatic evaluation metrics for dialog has impeded open-domain dialog research. Standard language generation metrics have been shown to be ineffective for evaluating dialog models. To this end, this paper presents USR, an UnSupervised and Reference-free evaluation metric for dialog. USR is a ref... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank the following individuals for their help with annotation: Evgeniia Razumovskaia, Felix Labelle, Mckenna Brown and Yulan Feng. | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
partanen-rueter-2019-survey | https://aclanthology.org/W19-8009 | Survey of Uralic Universal Dependencies development | This paper attempts to evaluate some of the systematic differences in Uralic Universal Dependencies treebanks from a perspective that would help to introduce reasonable improvements in treebank annotation consistency within this language family. The study finds that the coverage of Uralic languages in the project is al... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
shinnou-sasaki-2008-spectral | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/62_paper.pdf | Spectral Clustering for a Large Data Set by Reducing the Similarity Matrix Size | Spectral clustering is a powerful clustering method for document data set. However, spectral clustering needs to solve an eigenvalue problem of the matrix converted from the similarity matrix corresponding to the data set. Therefore, it is not practical to use spectral clustering for a large data set. To overcome this ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was partially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, Japanese Corpus , 19011001, 2007. | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bartolini-etal-2004-semantic | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2004/pdf/709.pdf | Semantic Mark-up of Italian Legal Texts Through NLP-based Techniques | In this paper we illustrate an approach to information extraction from legal texts using SALEM. SALEM is an NLP architecture for semantic annotation and indexing of Italian legislative texts, developed by ILC in close collaboration with ITTIG-CNR, Florence. Results of SALEM performance on a test sample of about 500 Ita... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | null | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
huo-etal-2019-graph | https://aclanthology.org/D19-5319 | Graph Enhanced Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Generation | Semantic parsing is a fundamental problem in natural language understanding, as it involves the mapping of natural language to structured forms such as executable queries or logic-like knowledge representations. Existing deep learning approaches for semantic parsing have shown promise on a variety of benchmark data set... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
petiwala-etal-2012-textbook | https://aclanthology.org/W12-5806 | Textbook Construction from Lecture Transcripts | null | true | [] | [] | Quality Education | null | null | null | 2012 | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
huang-etal-1997-segmentation | https://aclanthology.org/O97-4003 | Segmentation Standard for Chinese Natural Language Processing | This paper proposes a segmentation standard for Chinese natural language processing. The standard is proposed to achieve linguistic felicity, computational feasibility, and data uniformity. Linguistic felicity is maintained by a definition of segmentation unit that is equivalent to the theoretical definition of word, a... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Research reported in this paper is partially supported by the Standardization Bureau of Taiwan, ROC. The authors are indebted to the following taskforce committee members for their invaluable contribution to the project: Claire H.H. Chang, One-Soon Her, Shuan-fan Huang, James H.Y. Tai, Charles T.C Tang, Jyun-shen Chang... | 1997 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
xia-etal-2022-structured | https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.107 | Structured Pruning Learns Compact and Accurate Models | The growing size of neural language models has led to increased attention in model compression. The two predominant approaches are pruning, which gradually removes weights from a pre-trained model, and distillation, which trains a smaller compact model to match a larger one. Pruning methods can significantly reduce the... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors thank Tao Lei from Google Research, Ameet Deshpande, Dan Friedman, Sadhika Malladi from Princeton University and the anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback on our paper. This research is supported by a Hisashi and Masae Kobayashi *67 Fellowship and a Google Research Scholar Award. | 2022 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhang-lan-2015-ecnu | https://aclanthology.org/S15-2125 | ECNU: Extracting Effective Features from Multiple Sequential Sentences for Target-dependent Sentiment Analysis in Reviews | This paper describes our systems submitted to the target-dependent sentiment polarity classification subtask in aspect based sentiment analysis (ABSA) task (i.e., Task 12) in Se-mEval 2015. To settle this problem, we extracted several effective features from three sequential sentences, including sentiment lexicon, ling... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research is supported by grants from Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality under research grant no. (14DZ2260800 and 15ZR1410700) and Shanghai Collaborative Innovation Center of Trustworthy Software for Internet of Things (ZF1213). | 2015 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
cheng-etal-2020-dynamically | https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.121 | Dynamically Updating Event Representations for Temporal Relation Classification with Multi-category Learning | Temporal relation classification is a pair-wise task for identifying the relation of a temporal link (TLINK) between two mentions, i.e. event, time and document creation time (DCT). It leads to two crucial limits: 1) Two TLINKs involving a common mention do not share information. 2) Existing models with independent cla... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
cohn-blunsom-2009-bayesian | https://aclanthology.org/D09-1037 | A Bayesian Model of Syntax-Directed Tree to String Grammar Induction | Tree based translation models are a compelling means of integrating linguistic information into machine translation. Syntax can inform lexical selection and reordering choices and thereby improve translation quality. Research to date has focussed primarily on decoding with such models, but less on the difficult problem... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors acknowledge the support of the EP-SRC (grants GR/T04557/01 and EP/D074959/1). This work has made use of the resources provided by the Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility (ECDF). The ECDF is partially supported by the eDIKT initiative. | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
stathopoulos-etal-2018-variable | https://aclanthology.org/N18-1028 | Variable Typing: Assigning Meaning to Variables in Mathematical Text | Information about the meaning of mathematical variables in text is useful in NLP/IR tasks such as symbol disambiguation, topic modeling and mathematical information retrieval (MIR). We introduce variable typing, the task of assigning one mathematical type (multiword technical terms referring to mathematical concepts) t... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
anthony-patrick-2004-dependency | https://aclanthology.org/W04-0815 | Dependency based logical form transformations | This paper describes a system developed for the transformation of English sentences into a first order logical form representation. The metho dology is centered on the use of a d ependency grammar based parser. We demonstrate the suitability of applying a dependency parser based solution to the given task a nd in turn ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
terrell-mutlu-2012-regression | https://aclanthology.org/W12-1639 | A Regression-based Approach to Modeling Addressee Backchannels | During conversations, addressees produce conversational acts-verbal and nonverbal backchannels-that facilitate turn-taking, acknowledge speakership, and communicate common ground without disrupting the speaker's speech. These acts play a key role in achieving fluent conversations. Therefore, gaining a deeper understand... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank Faisal Khan for his help in data collection and processing. This work was supported by National Science Foundation award 1149970. | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
chen-etal-2020-reconstructing | https://aclanthology.org/2020.aacl-main.81 | Reconstructing Event Regions for Event Extraction via Graph Attention Networks | Event information is usually scattered across multiple sentences within a document. The local sentence-level event extractors often yield many noisy event role filler extractions in the absence of a broader view of the documentlevel context. Filtering spurious extractions and aggregating event information in a document... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work is supported by the Natural Key RD Program of China (No.2018YFB1005100), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61922085, No.U1936207, No.61806201) and the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant NO. ZDBS-SSW-JSC006). This work is also supported by CCF-Tencent Open Researc... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhu-etal-2013-improved | https://aclanthology.org/P13-1019 | Improved Bayesian Logistic Supervised Topic Models with Data Augmentation | Supervised topic models with a logistic likelihood have two issues that potentially limit their practical use: 1) response variables are usually over-weighted by document word counts; and 2) existing variational inference methods make strict mean-field assumptions. We address these issues by: 1) introducing a regulariz... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
diab-etal-2004-automatic | https://aclanthology.org/N04-4038 | Automatic Tagging of Arabic Text: From Raw Text to Base Phrase Chunks | To date, there are no fully automated systems addressing the community's need for fundamental language processing tools for Arabic text. In this paper, we present a Support Vector Machine (SVM) based approach to automatically tokenize (segmenting off clitics), part-ofspeech (POS) tag and annotate base phrases (BPs) in ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
anastasopoulos-etal-2020-tico | https://aclanthology.org/2020.nlpcovid19-2.5 | TICO-19: the Translation Initiative for COvid-19 | The COVID-19 pandemic is the worst pandemic to strike the world in over a century. Crucial to stemming the tide of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is communicating to vulnerable populations the means by which they can protect themselves. To this end, the collaborators forming the Translation Initiative for COvid-19 (TICO-19) 1 ha... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | We would like to thank the people who made this effort possible: Tanya Badeka, Jen Wang, William Wong, Rebekkah Hogan, Cynthia Gao, Rachael Brunckhorst, Ian Hill, Bob Jung, Jason Smith, Susan Kim Chan, Romina Stella, Keith Stevens. We also extend our gratitude to the many translators and the quality reviewers whose har... | 2020 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
giannakopoulos-etal-2017-multiling | https://aclanthology.org/W17-1001 | MultiLing 2017 Overview | In this brief report we present an overview of the MultiLing 2017 effort and workshop, as implemented within EACL 2017. MultiLing is a community-driven initiative that pushes the state-of-the-art in Automatic Summarization by providing data sets and fostering further research and development of summarization systems. T... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported by project MediaGist, EUs FP7 People Programme (Marie Curie Actions), no. 630786, MediaGist. | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kireyev-2009-semantic | https://aclanthology.org/N09-1060 | Semantic-based Estimation of Term Informativeness | The idea that some words carry more semantic content than others, has led to the notion of term specificity, or informativeness. Computational estimation of this quantity is important for various applications such as information retrieval. We propose a new method of computing term specificity, based on modeling the rat... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
semmar-laib-2017-building | https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_085 | Building Multiword Expressions Bilingual Lexicons for Domain Adaptation of an Example-Based Machine Translation System | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
inoue-etal-2022-learning | https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.81 | Learning and Evaluating Character Representations in Novels | We address the problem of learning fixedlength vector representations of characters in novels. Recent advances in word embeddings have proven successful in learning entity representations from short texts, but fall short on longer documents because they do not capture full book-level information. To overcome the weakne... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank anonymous reviewers for valuable and insightful feedback. | 2022 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
netisopakul-chattupan-2015-thai | https://aclanthology.org/Y15-1022 | Thai Stock News Sentiment Classification using Wordpair Features | Thai stock brokers issue daily stock news for their customers. One broker labels these news with plus, minus and zero sign to indicate the type of recommendation. This paper proposed to classify Thai stock news by extracting important texts from the news. The extracted text is in a form of a 'wordpair'. Three wordpair ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2015 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ma-etal-2017-text | https://aclanthology.org/P17-3009 | Text-based Speaker Identification on Multiparty Dialogues Using Multi-document Convolutional Neural Networks | We propose a convolutional neural network model for text-based speaker identification on multiparty dialogues extracted from the TV show, Friends. While most previous works on this task rely heavily on acoustic features, our approach attempts to identify speakers in dialogues using their speech patterns as captured by ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
deng-nakamura-2005-investigating | https://aclanthology.org/I05-2025 | Investigating the Features that Affect Cue Usage of Non-native Speakers of English | At present, the population of non-native speakers is twice that of native speakers. It is necessary to explore the text generation strategies for non-native users. However, little has been done in this field. This study investigates the features that affect the placement (where to place a cue) of because for non-native... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2005 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
jain-gandhi-2022-comprehensive | https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.270 | Comprehensive Multi-Modal Interactions for Referring Image Segmentation | We investigate Referring Image Segmentation (RIS), which outputs a segmentation map corresponding to the natural language description. Addressing RIS efficiently requires considering the interactions happening across visual and linguistic modalities and the interactions within each modality. Existing methods are limite... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2022 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
faraj-etal-2021-sarcasmdet | https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.44 | SarcasmDet at Sarcasm Detection Task 2021 in Arabic using AraBERT Pretrained Model | This paper presents one of the top five winning solutions for the Shared Task on Sarcasm and Sentiment Detection in Arabic (sub-task1 Sarcasm Detection). The goal of the sub-task is to identify whether a tweet is sarcastic or not. Our solution has been developed using ensemble technique with AraBERT pre-trained model. ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
chang-etal-2014-semantic-frame | https://aclanthology.org/Y14-1011 | Semantic Frame-based Statistical Approach for Topic Detection | We propose a statistical frame-based approach (FBA) for natural language processing, and demonstrate its advantage over traditional machine learning methods by using topic detection as a case study. FBA perceives and identifies semantic knowledge in a more general manner by collecting important linguistic patterns with... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This study is conducted under the NSC 102-3114-Y-307-026 "A Research on Social Influence and Decision Support Analytics" of the Institute for Information Industry which is subsidized by the National Science Council. | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ling-etal-2015-design | https://aclanthology.org/Q15-1023 | Design Challenges for Entity Linking | Recent research on entity linking (EL) has introduced a plethora of promising techniques, ranging from deep neural networks to joint inference. But despite numerous papers there is surprisingly little understanding of the state of the art in EL. We attack this confusion by analyzing differences between several versions... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Acknowledgements The authors thank Luke Zettlemoyer, Tony Fader, Kenton Lee, Mark Yatskar for constructive suggestions on an early draft and all members of the LoudLab group and the LIL group for helpful discussions. We also thank the action editor and the anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. This work is support... | 2015 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhong-etal-2020-element | https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.540 | An Element-aware Multi-representation Model for Law Article Prediction | Existing works have proved that using law articles as external knowledge can improve the performance of the Legal Judgment Prediction. However, they do not fully use law article information and most of the current work is only for single label samples. In this paper, we propose a Law Article Element-aware Multi-represe... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | We thank all reviewers for the valuable comments. This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61472191 and No. 61772278). | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
goldwater-etal-2008-words | https://aclanthology.org/P08-1044 | Which Words Are Hard to Recognize? Prosodic, Lexical, and Disfluency Factors that Increase ASR Error Rates | Many factors are thought to increase the chances of misrecognizing a word in ASR, including low frequency, nearby disfluencies, short duration, and being at the start of a turn. However, few of these factors have been formally examined. This paper analyzes a variety of lexical, prosodic, and disfluency factors to deter... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was supported by the Edinburgh-Stanford LINK and ONR MURI award N000140510388. We thank Andreas Stolcke for providing the ASR output, language model, and forced alignments used here, and Raghunandan Kumaran and Katrin Kirchhoff for earlier datasets and additional help. | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
mass-etal-2022-conversational | https://aclanthology.org/2022.dialdoc-1.7 | Conversational Search with Mixed-Initiative - Asking Good Clarification Questions backed-up by Passage Retrieval | We deal with the scenario of conversational search, where user queries are under-specified or ambiguous. This calls for a mixed-initiative setup. User-asks (queries) and system-answers, as well as system-asks (clarification questions) and user response, in order to clarify her information needs. We focus on the task of... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2022 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
cinkova-etal-2016-graded | https://aclanthology.org/L16-1137 | Graded and Word-Sense-Disambiguation Decisions in Corpus Pattern Analysis: a Pilot Study | We present a pilot analysis of a new linguistic resource, VPS-GradeUp (available at http://hdl.handle.net/11234/1-1585). The resource contains 11,400 graded human decisions on usage patterns of 29 English lexical verbs, randomly selected from the Pattern Dictionary of English Verbs (Hanks, 2000 2014). The selection was... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work has been using language resources developed and/or stored and/or distributed by the LINDAT/CLARIN project of the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports of the Czech Republic (project LM2015071). For most implementation we used R (R Core Team, 2015). | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
steele-specia-2018-vis | https://aclanthology.org/N18-5015 | Vis-Eval Metric Viewer: A Visualisation Tool for Inspecting and Evaluating Metric Scores of Machine Translation Output | Machine Translation systems are usually evaluated and compared using automated evaluation metrics such as BLEU and METEOR to score the generated translations against human translations. However, the interaction with the output from the metrics is relatively limited and results are commonly a single score along with a f... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
diwersy-2014-varitext | https://aclanthology.org/W14-5306 | The Varitext platform and the Corpus des vari\'et\'es nationales du fran\ccais (CoVaNa-FR) as resources for the study of French from a pluricentric perspective | This paper reports on the francophone corpus archive Corpus des variétés nationales du français (CoVaNa-FR) and the lexico-statistical platform Varitext. It outlines the design and data format of the samples as well as presenting various usage scenarios related to the applications featured by the platform's toolbox. | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The author wishes to thank the reviewers for their valuable comments which helped to clarify the main points of the paper. | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
eschenbach-etal-1989-remarks | https://aclanthology.org/E89-1022 | Remarks on Plural Anaphora | The interpretation of plural anaphora often requires the construction of complex reference objects (RefOs) out of RefOs which were formerly introduced not by plural terms but by a number of singular terms only. Often, several complex RefOs can be constructed, but only one of them is the preferred referent for the plura... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Ewald Lang, Geoff Simmons (who also corrected our English) and Andrea Schopp for stimulating discussions and three anonymous referees from ACL for their comments on an earlier version of this paper. | 1989 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
sjobergh-araki-2008-multi | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/133_paper.pdf | A Multi-Lingual Dictionary of Dirty Words | We present a multilingual dictionary of dirty words. We have collected about 3,200 dirty words in several languages and built a database of these. The language with the most words in the database is English, though there are several hundred dirty words in for instance Japanese too. Words are classified into their gener... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | This work was done as part of a project funded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). We would like to thank some of the anonymous reviewers for interesting suggestions for extending our work. We would also like to thank the volunteers who have contributed dirty words to the dictionary, especially... | 2008 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
fernandez-etal-2007-referring | https://aclanthology.org/2007.sigdial-1.25 | Referring under Restricted Interactivity Conditions | We report results on how the collaborative process of referring in task-oriented dialogue is affected by the restrictive interactivity of a turn-taking policy commonly used in dialogue systems, namely push-to-talk. Our findings show that the restriction did not have a negative effect. Instead, the stricter control impo... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Acknowledgements. This work was supported by the EU Marie Curie Programme (first author) and the DFG Emmy Noether Programme (last author). Thanks to the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. | 2007 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
suzuki-2004-phrase | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2004/pdf/272.pdf | Phrase-Based Dependency Evaluation of a Japanese Parser | Extraction of predicate-argument structure is an important task that requires evaluation for many applications, yet annotated resources of predicate-argument structure are currently scarce, especially for languages other than English. This paper presents an evaluation of a Japanese parser based on dependency relations ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | I would like to thank Mari Brunson for producing the KCstyle annotation for various data sets for our experiments. | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
abu-jbara-etal-2011-towards | https://aclanthology.org/P11-2043 | Towards Style Transformation from Written-Style to Audio-Style | In this paper, we address the problem of optimizing the style of textual content to make it more suitable to being listened to by a user as opposed to being read. We study the differences between the written style and the audio style by consulting the linguistics and journalism literatures. Guided by this study, we sug... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2011 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
sperber-etal-2019-attention | https://aclanthology.org/Q19-1020 | Attention-Passing Models for Robust and Data-Efficient End-to-End Speech Translation | Speech translation has traditionally been approached through cascaded models consisting of a speech recognizer trained on a corpus of transcribed speech, and a machine translation system trained on parallel texts. Several recent works have shown the feasibility of collapsing the cascade into a single, direct model that... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Adam Lopez, Stefan Constantin, and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. The work leading to these results has received funding from the European Union under grant agreement no. 825460. | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
erbs-etal-2013-hierarchy | https://aclanthology.org/R13-1033 | Hierarchy Identification for Automatically Generating Table-of-Contents | A table-of-contents (TOC) provides a quick reference to a document's content and structure. We present the first study on identifying the hierarchical structure for automatically generating a TOC using only textual features instead of structural hints e.g. from HTML-tags. We create two new datasets to evaluate our appr... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work has been supported by the Volkswagen Foundation as part of the | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
li-wu-2016-multi | https://aclanthology.org/C16-1185 | Multi-level Gated Recurrent Neural Network for dialog act classification | In this paper we focus on the problem of dialog act (DA) labelling. This problem has recently attracted a lot of attention as it is an important sub-part of an automatic dialog model, which is currently in great demand. Traditional methods tend to see this problem as a sequence labelling task and deal with it by applyi... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ravi-knight-2009-learning | https://aclanthology.org/N09-1005 | Learning Phoneme Mappings for Transliteration without Parallel Data | We present a method for performing machine transliteration without any parallel resources. We frame the transliteration task as a decipherment problem and show that it is possible to learn cross-language phoneme mapping tables using only monolingual resources. We compare various methods and evaluate their accuracies on... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under SRI International's prime Contract Number NBCHD040058. | 2009 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tokunaga-etal-2011-discriminative | https://aclanthology.org/W11-3502 | Discriminative Method for Japanese Kana-Kanji Input Method | The most popular type of input method in Japan is kana-kanji conversion, conversion from a string of kana to a mixed kanjikana string. However there is no study using discriminative methods like structured SVMs for kana-kanji conversion. One of the reasons is that learning a discriminative model from a large data set i... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2011 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
andreas-klein-2015-log | https://aclanthology.org/N15-1027 | When and why are log-linear models self-normalizing? | Several techniques have recently been proposed for training "self-normalized" discriminative models. These attempt to find parameter settings for which unnormalized model scores approximate the true label probability. However, the theoretical properties of such techniques (and of self-normalization generally) have not ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors would like to thank Peter Bartlett, Robert Nishihara and Maxim Rabinovich for useful discussions. This work was partially supported by BBN under DARPA contract HR0011-12-C-0014. The first author is supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. | 2015 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ws-2002-coling | https://aclanthology.org/W02-1100 | COLING-02: SEMANET: Building and Using Semantic Networks | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2002 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
vestre-1991-algorithm | https://aclanthology.org/E91-1044 | An Algorithm for Generating Non-Redundant Quantifier Scopings | This paper describes an algorithm for generating quantifier scopings. The algorithm is designed to generate only logically non-redundant scopings and to partially order the scopings with a given :default scoping first. Removing logical redundancy is not only interesting per se, but also drastically reduces the processi... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1991 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
khan-etal-2013-generative | https://aclanthology.org/W13-5409 | Generative Lexicon Theory and Linguistic Linked Open Data | In this paper we look at how Generative Lexicon theory can assist in providing a more thorough definition of word senses as links between items in a RDF-based lexicon and concepts in an ontology. We focus on the definition of lexical sense in lemon and show its limitations before defining a new model based on lemon and... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
samardzic-etal-2015-automatic | https://aclanthology.org/W15-3710 | Automatic interlinear glossing as two-level sequence classification | Interlinear glossing is a type of annotation of morphosyntactic categories and crosslinguistic lexical correspondences that allows linguists to analyse sentences in languages that they do not necessarily speak. Automatising this annotation is necessary in order to provide glossed corpora big enough to be used for quant... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2015 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
belz-etal-2010-finding | https://aclanthology.org/W10-4237 | Finding Common Ground: Towards a Surface Realisation Shared Task | In many areas of NLP reuse of utility tools such as parsers and POS taggers is now common, but this is still rare in NLG. The subfield of surface realisation has perhaps come closest, but at present we still lack a basis on which different surface realisers could be compared, chiefly because of the wide variety of diff... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
satta-1992-recognition | https://aclanthology.org/P92-1012 | Recognition of Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems | The class of linear context-free rewriting systems has been introduced as a generalization of a class of grammar formalisms known as mildly context-sensitive. The recognition problem for linear context-free rewriting languages is studied at length here, presenting evidence that, even in some restricted cases, it cannot... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1992 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kiso-etal-2011-hits | https://aclanthology.org/P11-2006 | HITS-based Seed Selection and Stop List Construction for Bootstrapping | In bootstrapping (seed set expansion), selecting good seeds and creating stop lists are two effective ways to reduce semantic drift, but these methods generally need human supervision. In this paper, we propose a graphbased approach to helping editors choose effective seeds and stop list instances, applicable to Pantel... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Masayuki Asahara and Kazuo Hara for helpful discussions and the anonymous reviewers for valuable comments. MS was partially supported by Kakenhi Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C 21500141. | 2011 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
olaussen-2011-evaluating | https://aclanthology.org/W11-4653 | Evaluating the speech quality of the Norwegian synthetic voice Brage | This document describes the method, results and conclusions from my master's thesis in Nordic studies. My aim was to assess the speech quality of the Norwegian Filibuster text-to-speech system with the synthetic voice Brage. The assessment was carried out with a survey and an intelligibility test at phoneme, word and s... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2011 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
dligach-etal-2017-neural | https://aclanthology.org/E17-2118 | Neural Temporal Relation Extraction | We experiment with neural architectures for temporal relation extraction and establish a new state-of-the-art for several scenarios. We find that neural models with only tokens as input outperform state-ofthe-art hand-engineered feature-based models, that convolutional neural networks outperform LSTM models, and that e... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work was partially funded by the US National Institutes of Health (U24CA184407; R01 LM 10090; R01GM114355). The Titan X GPU used for this research was donated by the NVIDIA Corporation. | 2017 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
meshgi-etal-2022-uncertainty | https://aclanthology.org/2022.wassa-1.8 | Uncertainty Regularized Multi-Task Learning | By sharing parameters and providing taskindependent shared features, multi-task deep neural networks are considered one of the most interesting ways for parallel learning from different tasks and domains. However, fine-tuning on one task may compromise the performance of other tasks or restrict the generalization of th... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2022 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
gaspari-2006-added-value | https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-users.3 | The Added Value of Free Online MT Services | This paper reports on an experiment investigating how effective free online machine translation (MT) is in helping Internet users to access the contents of websites written only in languages they do not know. This study explores the extent to which using Internet-based MT tools affects the confidence of web-surfers in ... | true | [] | [] | Decent Work and Economic Growth | null | null | The author wishes to thank his colleagues at the Universities of Manchester, Salford and Liverpool Hope in the United Kingdom for their assistance in distributing the questionnaires to their students. Special thanks also to all the students who volunteered to fill in the questionnaire on which this study was based. | 2006 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
mathur-etal-2018-offend | https://aclanthology.org/W18-5118 | Did you offend me? Classification of Offensive Tweets in Hinglish Language | The use of code-switched languages (e.g., Hinglish, which is derived by the blending of Hindi with the English language) is getting much popular on Twitter due to their ease of communication in native languages. However, spelling variations and absence of grammar rules introduce ambiguity and make it difficult to under... | 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 |
wall-1960-system | https://aclanthology.org/1960.earlymt-nsmt.62 | System Design of a Computer for Russian-English Translation | Session 11: EQUIPMENT problem to the equipment.
This paper presents the general specifications for a digital data-processing system which would be desirable for machine translation according to the experience of the group at the University of Washington. First the problem of lexicon storage will be considered. | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1960 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
shen-etal-2003-effective | https://aclanthology.org/W03-1307 | Effective Adaptation of Hidden Markov Model-based Named Entity Recognizer for Biomedical Domain | In this paper, we explore how to adapt a general Hidden Markov Model-based named entity recognizer effectively to biomedical domain. We integrate various features, including simple deterministic features, morphological features, POS features and semantic trigger features, to capture various evidences especially for bio... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | We would like to thank Mr. Tan Soon Heng for his support of biomedical knowledge. | 2003 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
wei-jia-2021-statistical | https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.533 | The statistical advantage of automatic NLG metrics at the system level | Estimating the expected output quality of generation systems is central to NLG. This paper qualifies the notion that automatic metrics are not as good as humans in estimating systemlevel quality. Statistically, humans are unbiased, high variance estimators, while metrics are biased, low variance estimators. We compare ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Discussions with Nitika Mathur, Markus Freitag, and Thibault Sellam led to several insights. Nelson Liu and Tianyi Zhang provided feedback on our first draft, and anonymous reviewers provided feedback on the submitted draft. Nanyun Peng advised the first author, and on this work. Alex Fabbri provided a scored version o... | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
goldwater-etal-2000-building | https://aclanthology.org/W00-0312 | Building a Robust Dialogue System with Limited Data | We describe robustness techniques used in the Com-mandTalk system at: the recognition level, the parsing level, and th~ dia16gue level, and how these were influenced by the lack of domain data. We used interviews with subject matter experts (SME's) to develop a single grammar for recognition, understanding, and generat... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2000 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
novikova-etal-2018-rankme | https://aclanthology.org/N18-2012 | RankME: Reliable Human Ratings for Natural Language Generation | Human evaluation for natural language generation (NLG) often suffers from inconsistent user ratings. While previous research tends to attribute this problem to individual user preferences, we show that the quality of human judgements can also be improved by experimental design. We present a novel rank-based magnitude e... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research received funding from the EPSRC projects DILiGENt (EP/M005429/1) and MaDrI-gAL (EP/N017536/1). The Titan Xp used for this research was donated by the NVIDIA Corporation. | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kiyono-etal-2018-reducing | https://aclanthology.org/Y18-1034 | Reducing Odd Generation from Neural Headline Generation | The Encoder-Decoder model is widely used in natural language generation tasks. However, the model sometimes suffers from repeated redundant generation, misses important phrases, and includes irrelevant entities. Toward solving these problems we propose a novel sourceside token prediction module. Our method jointly esti... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We are grateful to anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. We thank Sosuke Kobayashi for providing helpful comments. We also thank Qingyu Zhou for providing a dataset and information for a fair comparison. | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bhargava-penn-2021-proof | https://aclanthology.org/2021.iwpt-1.2 | Proof Net Structure for Neural Lambek Categorial Parsing | In this paper, we present the first statistical parser for Lambek categorial grammar (LCG), a grammatical formalism for which the graphical proof method known as proof nets is applicable. Our parser incorporates proof net structure and constraints into a system based on selfattention networks via novel model elements. ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Elizabeth Patitsas as well as our anonymous reviewers for their feedback. This research was enabled in part by support provided by NSERC, SHARCNET, and Compute Canada. | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhao-etal-2010-paraphrasing | https://aclanthology.org/C10-1148 | Paraphrasing with Search Engine Query Logs | This paper proposes a method that extracts paraphrases from search engine query logs. The method first extracts paraphrase query-title pairs based on an assumption that a search query and its corresponding clicked document titles may mean the same thing. It then extracts paraphrase query-query and title-title pairs fro... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank Wanxiang Che, Hua Wu, and the anonymous reviewers for their useful comments on this paper. | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
al-boni-etal-2015-model | https://aclanthology.org/P15-2126 | Model Adaptation for Personalized Opinion Analysis | Humans are idiosyncratic and variable: towards the same topic, they might hold different opinions or express the same opinion in various ways. It is hence important to model opinions at the level of individual users; however it is impractical to estimate independent sentiment classification models for each user with li... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research was funded in part by grant W911NF-10-2-0051 from the United States Army Research Laboratory. Also, Hongning Wang is partially supported by the Yahoo Academic Career Enhancement Award. | 2015 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zaenen-2016-modality | https://aclanthology.org/2016.lilt-14.1 | Modality: logic, semantics, annotation and machine learning | Up to rather recently Natural Language Processing has not given much attention to modality. As long as the main task was to determined what a text was about (Information Retrieval) or who the participants in an eventuality were (Information Extraction), this neglect was understandable. With the focus moving to question... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
moschitti-2010-kernel | https://aclanthology.org/C10-5001 | Kernel Engineering for Fast and Easy Design of Natural Language Applications | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ichikawa-etal-2005-ebonsai | https://aclanthology.org/I05-2019 | eBonsai: An Integrated Environment for Annotating Treebanks | Syntactically annotated corpora (treebanks) play an important role in recent statistical natural language processing. However, building a large treebank is labor intensive and time consuming work. To remedy this problem, there have been many attempts to develop software tools for annotating treebanks. This paper presen... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2005 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kim-etal-2010-computational | https://aclanthology.org/Y10-1050 | A Computational Treatment of Korean Serial Verb Constructions | The so-called serial verb construction (SVC) is a complex predicate structure consisting of two or more verbal heads but denotes one single event. This paper first discusses the grammatical properties of Korean SVCs and provides a lexicalist, constructionbased analysis couched upon a typed-feature structure grammar. We... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tao-etal-2019-one | https://aclanthology.org/P19-1001 | One Time of Interaction May Not Be Enough: Go Deep with an Interaction-over-Interaction Network for Response Selection in Dialogues | Currently, researchers have paid great attention to retrieval-based dialogues in opendomain. In particular, people study the problem by investigating context-response matching for multi-turn response selection based on publicly recognized benchmark data sets. State-of-the-art methods require a response to interact with... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFC0804001), the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC Nos. 61672058 and 61876196). | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
osborne-baldridge-2004-ensemble | https://aclanthology.org/N04-1012 | Ensemble-based Active Learning for Parse Selection | Supervised estimation methods are widely seen as being superior to semi and fully unsupervised methods. However, supervised methods crucially rely upon training sets that need to be manually annotated. This can be very expensive, especially when skilled annotators are required. Active learning (AL) promises to help red... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank Markus Becker, Steve Clark, and the anonymous reviewers for their comments. Jeremiah Crim developed some of the feature extraction code and conglomerate features, and Alex Lascarides made suggestions for the semantic features. This work was supported by Edinburgh-Stanford Link R36763, ROSIE proje... | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ribeiro-etal-2018-semantically | https://aclanthology.org/P18-1079 | Semantically Equivalent Adversarial Rules for Debugging NLP models | Complex machine learning models for NLP are often brittle, making different predictions for input instances that are extremely similar semantically. To automatically detect this behavior for individual instances, we present semantically equivalent adversaries (SEAs)-semantic-preserving perturbations that induce changes... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We are grateful to Dan Weld, Robert L. Logan IV, and to the anonymous reviewers for their feedback. This work was supported in part by ONR award #N00014-13-1-0023, in part by NSF award #IIS-1756023, and in part by funding from FICO. The views expressed are of the authors and do not reflect the policy or opinion of the ... | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhao-etal-2020-robust | https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.248 | Robust Machine Reading Comprehension by Learning Soft labels | Neural models have achieved great success on the task of machine reading comprehension (MRC), which are typically trained on hard labels. We argue that hard labels limit the model capability on generalization due to the label sparseness problem. In this paper, we propose a robust training method for MRC models to addre... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments. This work is sponsored in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2018YFC0830700) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61806075). And the work of M. Yang was also supported in part by the project granted by Zhizhesi... | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
zhao-huang-2013-minibatch | https://aclanthology.org/N13-1038 | Minibatch and Parallelization for Online Large Margin Structured Learning | Online learning algorithms such as perceptron and MIRA have become popular for many NLP tasks thanks to their simpler architecture and faster convergence over batch learning methods. However, while batch learning such as CRF is easily parallelizable, online learning is much harder to parallelize: previous efforts often... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Ryan McDonald, Yoav Goldberg, and Hal Daumé, III for helpful discussions, and the anonymous reviewers for suggestions. This work was partially supported by DARPA FA8750-13-2-0041 "Deep Exploration and Filtering of Text" (DEFT) Program and by Queens College for equipment. | 2013 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
vasiljevs-etal-2012-creation | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/744_Paper.pdf | Creation of an Open Shared Language Resource Repository in the Nordic and Baltic Countries | The META-NORD project has contributed to an open infrastructure for language resources (data and tools) under the META-NET umbrella. This paper presents the key objectives of META-NORD and reports on the results achieved in the first year of the project. META-NORD has mapped and described the national language technolo... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The META-NORD project has received funding from the European Commission through the ICT PSP Programme, grant agreement no 270899. | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ws-2000-anlp-naacl | https://aclanthology.org/W00-0500 | ANLP-NAACL 2000 Workshop: Embedded Machine Translation Systems | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2000 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
han-sun-2014-semantic | https://aclanthology.org/P14-2117 | Semantic Consistency: A Local Subspace Based Method for Distant Supervised Relation Extraction | One fundamental problem of distant supervision is the noisy training corpus problem. In this paper, we propose a new distant supervision method, called Semantic Consistency, which can identify reliable instances from noisy instances by inspecting whether an instance is located in a semantically consistent region. Speci... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2014 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
vela-etal-2019-improving | https://aclanthology.org/W19-6702 | Improving CAT Tools in the Translation Workflow: New Approaches and Evaluation | This paper describes strategies to improve an existing web-based computeraided translation (CAT) tool entitled CATaLog Online. CATaLog Online provides a post-editing environment with simple yet helpful project management tools. It offers translation suggestions from translation memories (TM), machine translation (MT), ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We would like to thank the participants of this user study for their valuable contribution. We further thank the MT Summit anonymous reviewers for their insightful feedback.This research was funded in part by the Ger- /2007-2013) under REA grant agreement no 317471. We are also thankful to Pangeanic, Valencia, Spain fo... | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
lopez-etal-2016-encoding | https://aclanthology.org/L16-1177 | Encoding Adjective Scales for Fine-grained Resources | We propose an automatic approach towards determining the relative location of adjectives on a common scale based on their strength. We focus on adjectives expressing different degrees of goodness occurring in French product (perfumes) reviews. Using morphosyntactic patterns, we extract from the reviews short phrases co... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2016 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
abdelali-etal-2021-qadi | https://aclanthology.org/2021.wanlp-1.1 | QADI: Arabic Dialect Identification in the Wild | Proper dialect identification is important for a variety of Arabic NLP applications. In this paper, we present a method for rapidly constructing a tweet dataset containing a wide range of country-level Arabic dialects-covering 18 different countries in the Middle East and North Africa region. Our method relies on apply... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | 9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Egyptian_Arabic | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
minnema-herbelot-2019-brain | https://aclanthology.org/P19-2021 | From Brain Space to Distributional Space: The Perilous Journeys of fMRI Decoding | Recent work in cognitive neuroscience has introduced models for predicting distributional word meaning representations from brain imaging data. Such models have great potential, but the quality of their predictions has not yet been thoroughly evaluated from a computational linguistics point of view. Due to the limited ... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | The first author of this paper (GM) was enrolled in the European Master Program in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT) while writing the paper, and was supported by the European Union Erasmus Mundus program. | 2019 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
chen-etal-2019-capturing | https://aclanthology.org/D19-1544 | Capturing Argument Interaction in Semantic Role Labeling with Capsule Networks | Semantic role labeling (SRL) involves extracting propositions (i.e. predicates and their typed arguments) from natural language sentences. State-of-the-art SRL models rely on powerful encoders (e.g., LSTMs) and do not model non-local interaction between arguments. We propose a new approach to modeling these interaction... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | We thank Diego Marcheggiani, Jonathan Mallinson and Philip Williams for constructive feedback and suggestions, as well as anonymous reviewers for their comments. The project was supported by the European Research Council (ERC StG BroadSem 678254) and the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO VIDI 639.022.518). | 2019 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
robin-favero-2000-content | https://aclanthology.org/W00-1417 | Content aggregation in natural language hypertext summarization of OLAP and Data Mining Discoveries | We present a new approach to paratactic content aggregation in the context of generating hypertext summaries of OLAP and data mining discoveries. Two key properties make this approach innovative and interesting: (1) it encapsulates aggregation inside the sentence planning component, and (2) it relies on a domain indepe... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2000 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
alfonseca-manandhar-2002-proposal | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2002/pdf/38.pdf | Proposal for Evaluating Ontology Refinement Methods | Ontologies are a tool for Knowledge Representation that is now widely used, but the effort employed to build an ontology is still high. There are a few automatic and semi-automatic methods for extending ontologies with domain-specific information, but they use different training and test data, and different evaluation ... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work does not attempt to evaluate learning of nontaxonomic relations (e.g. meronymy, holonymy, telic, etc.), but we believe that similar evaluation metrics could be used (Maedche and Staab, 2000) . Further work can be done on this topic. | 2002 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
chiang-su-1996-statistical | https://aclanthology.org/W96-0110 | Statistical Models for Deep-structure Disambiguation | In this paper, an integrated score function is proposed to resolve the ambiguity of deepstructure, which includes the cases of constituents and the senses of words. With the integrated score function, different knowledge sources, including part-of-speech, syntax and semantics, are integrated in a uniform formulation. B... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1996 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
tang-etal-2011-clgvsm | https://aclanthology.org/I11-1065 | CLGVSM: Adapting Generalized Vector Space Model to Cross-lingual Document Clustering | Cross-lingual document clustering (CLDC) is the task to automatically organize a large collection of cross-lingual documents into groups considering content or topic. Different from the traditional hard matching strategy, this paper extends traditional generalized vector space model (GVSM) to handle cross-lingual cases... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work is partially supported by NSFC (60703051) and MOST (2009DFA12970). We thank the reviewers for the valuable comments. | 2011 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
guo-etal-2020-text | https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.542 | Text Classification by Contrastive Learning and Cross-lingual Data Augmentation for Alzheimer's Disease Detection | Data scarcity is always a constraint on analyzing speech transcriptions for automatic Alzheimer's disease (AD) detection, especially when the subjects are non-English speakers. To deal with this issue, this paper first proposes a contrastive learning method to obtain effective representations for text classification ba... | 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 |
schabes-etal-1988-parsing | https://aclanthology.org/C88-2121 | Parsing Strategies with `Lexicalized' Grammars: Application to Tree Adjoining Grammars | In this paper we present a general parsing strategy that arose from the development of an Earley-type parsing algorithm for TAGs (Schabes and Joshi 1988) and from recent linguistic work in TAGs (Abeille 1988). | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1988 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
loukachevitch-etal-2018-comparing | https://aclanthology.org/2018.gwc-1.5 | Comparing Two Thesaurus Representations for Russian | In the paper we presented a new Russian wordnet, RuWordNet, which was semiautomatically obtained by transformation of the existing Russian thesaurus RuThes. At the first step, the basic structure of wordnets was reproduced: synsets' hierarchy for each part of speech and the basic set of relations between synsets (hypon... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This work is partially supported by Russian Scientific Foundation, according to the research project No. 16-18-020. | 2018 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
bhandwaldar-zadrozny-2018-uncc | https://aclanthology.org/W18-5308 | UNCC QA: Biomedical Question Answering system | In this paper, we detail our submission to the BioASQ competition's Biomedical Semantic Question and Answering task. Our system uses extractive summarization techniques to generate answers and has scored highest ROUGE-2 and Rogue-SU4 in all test batch sets. Our contributions are named-entity based method for answering ... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | Acknowledgment. We would like to thank the referees for their comments and suggestions. All the remaining faults are ours. | 2018 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
chatzichrisafis-etal-2006-evaluating | https://aclanthology.org/W06-3702 | Evaluating Task Performance for a Unidirectional Controlled Language Medical Speech Translation System | We present a task-level evaluation of the French to English version of MedSLT, a medium-vocabulary unidirectional controlled language medical speech translation system designed for doctor-patient diagnosis interviews. Our main goal was to establish task performance levels of novice users and compare them to expert user... | true | [] | [] | Good Health and Well-Being | null | null | We would like to thank Agnes Lisowska, Alia Rahal, and Nancy Underwood for being impartial judges over our system's results.This work was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. | 2006 | false | false | true | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
kunath-weinberger-2010-wisdom | https://aclanthology.org/W10-0726 | The Wisdom of the Crowd's Ear: Speech Accent Rating and Annotation with Amazon Mechanical Turk | Human listeners can almost instantaneously judge whether or not another speaker is part of their speech community. The basis of this judgment is the speaker's accent. Even though humans judge speech accents with ease, it has been tremendously difficult to automatically evaluate and rate accents in any consistent manner... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | The authors would like to thank Amazon.com and the workshop organizers for providing MTurk credits to perform this research. | 2010 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
lin-etal-2021-rumor | https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.786 | Rumor Detection on Twitter with Claim-Guided Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks | Rumors are rampant in the era of social media. Conversation structures provide valuable clues to differentiate between real and fake claims. However, existing rumor detection methods are either limited to the strict relation of user responses or oversimplify the conversation structure. In this study, to substantially r... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | We thank all anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. This work was partially supported by the Foundation of Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Public Big Data (No.2019BDKFJJ002). Jing Ma was supported by HKBU direct grant (Ref. AIS 21-22/02). | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
al-negheimish-etal-2021-numerical | https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.759 | Numerical reasoning in machine reading comprehension tasks: are we there yet? | Numerical reasoning based machine reading comprehension is a task that involves reading comprehension along with using arithmetic operations such as addition, subtraction, sorting, and counting. The DROP benchmark (Dua et al., 2019) is a recent dataset that has inspired the design of NLP models aimed at solving this ta... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | This research has been supported by a PhD scholarship from King Saud University. We thank our anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions, and SPIKE research group members for their feedback throughout this work. | 2021 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
ishizaki-kato-1998-exploring | https://aclanthology.org/C98-1092 | Exploring the Characteristics of Multi-Party Dialogues | This paper describes novel results on the charactcristics of three-party dialogues by quantitatively comparing them with those of two-party. In previous dialogue research, two-party dialogues are mainly focussed because data collection of multi-party dialogues is difficult and there are very few theories handling them,... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 1998 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
berovic-etal-2012-croatian | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/719_Paper.pdf | Croatian Dependency Treebank: Recent Development and Initial Experiments | We present the current state of development of the Croatian Dependency Treebank-with special empahsis on adapting the Prague Dependency Treebank formalism to Croatian language specifics-and illustrate its possible applications in an experiment with dependency parsing using MaltParser. The treebank currently contains ap... | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | Special thanks to our colleagues Tena Gnjatović and Ida Raffaelli from the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, for substantial contributions to the process of manual annotation of sentences for HOBS.The results presented here were partially obtained from research ... | 2012 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
arsenos-siolas-2020-ntuaails | https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.195 | NTUAAILS at SemEval-2020 Task 11: Propaganda Detection and Classification with biLSTMs and ELMo | This paper describes the NTUAAILS submission for SemEval 2020 Task 11 Detection of Propaganda Techniques in News Articles. This task comprises of two different sub-tasks, namely A: Span Identification (SI), B: Technique Classification (TC). The goal for the SI sub-task is to identify specific fragments, in a given plai... | true | [] | [] | Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions | null | null | null | 2020 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | true | false |
takeuchi-etal-2004-construction | https://aclanthology.org/W04-1814 | Construction of Grammar Based Term Extraction Model for Japanese | null | false | [] | [] | null | null | null | null | 2004 | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false | false |
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