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This paper presents a simple yet effective semi-supervised method to improve Chi- nese word segmentation and POS tagging. We introduce novel features derived from large auto-analyzed data to enhance a sim- ple pipelined system. The auto-analyzed data are generated from unlabeled data by using a baseline system. We evaluate the …...

In this paper, we propose a Localized Fea- ture Selection (LFS) framework tailored to the HL-SOT approach to sentiment analy- sis. Within the proposed LFS framework, each node classifier of the HL-SOT ap- proach is able to perform classification on target texts in a locally customized index term space. Extensive …...

Dialectal Arabic (DA) is the spoken ver- nacular for over 300M people worldwide. DA is emerging as the form of Arabic written in online communication: chats, emails, blogs, etc. However, most existing NLP tools for Arabic are designed for pro- cessing Modern Standard Arabic, a vari- ety that is more …...

The problem of Sam. dhi-Splitting is cen- tral to computational processing of San- skrit texts. Currently the best-known al- gorithm for this task, given a chunk, gen- erates all possible splits and chooses the Maximum-a-Posteriori estimate as the fi- nal answer. Our contributions to the task of Sam. dhi-Splitting are …...

Systems that distill information about events from large corpora generally extract sentences that are relevant to a short event query. We present a novel co-training strategy for this task that employs a multi- document news summary corpus featuring 2.5 million unlabeled sentences, thus obvi- ating the need for extensive manual …...

. This paper presents NERSIL, the first Iban named entity recognition using ANNIE, an information extraction tool available within GATE. We proposed a method for building rules and gazetteers for Iban language. Rules were determined based on named entities that were not recognized by ANNIE. Then, the investigation of the …...

. Cognitive linguists contend that learners’ awareness of motivations is the key in not only second language acquisition but also figurative language learning. Two cognitive-oriented methods are proposed to raise L2 learners’ awareness on metaphoric/metonymic expressions and to enhance retention: instruction involving conceptual metaphors (CM) and instruction involving metaphoric mappings …...

. We developed an open domain QA system that can handle factoid and non- factoid questions in Indonesian language by using monolingual approaches. EAT classification is done by identifying question word and clue words. Keyword extraction from question is done by looking at POS information of each word in question, …...

. Twitter is a widespread social media, which rapidly gained worldwide popularity. Pursuing on the problem of finding related tweets to a given organization, we propose supervised and semi-supervised based methods. This is a challenging task due to the potential organization name ambiguity. The tweets and organization contain little information. …...

. This paper provides a construction grammar perspective to identifying the ambiguity of prepositional phrase (PP) attachments (i.e., whether a PP is attached to the closest VP or NP1). Despite the wide discussion of these two structures (VP-attached and NP1-attached), we raise the possibility for a third parsing structure (about …...

. Abstract. Abstract. Abstract. In this study, we develop a document emotion analysis model by making use of the function of emotional words annotation. Eight basic emotion categories have been selected, including Expect, Joy, Love, Surprise, Anxiety, Sorrow, Anger and Hate, for both the word and the document level emotion …...

. This study proposes an index of representativeness for analyzing the characteris- tics of academic paper categories. Many textual indices have been proposed in the field of computational stylistics, but all of the previous indices are limited in that they (a) focus only on the styles of the texts; (b) …...

. Extraction was attempted of broad-scale, high-precision Japanese-English paral- lel translation expressions from large aligned parallel corpora. To acquire broad-scale parallel translation expressions, a new method was used to extract single Japanese and English word n-grams, by which as many parallel translation expressions as possible could then be ex- tracted. …...

. Analogy has been proposed as a possible principle for example-based machine translation. For such a framework to work properly, the training data should contain a large number of analogies between sentences. Consequently, such a framework can only work properly with short and repetitive sentences. To handle longer and more …...

. This paper deals with how to enhance the performance of a rule-based parser using statistical Information. PP (Prepositional Phrase) attachment ambiguity is one of the main ambiguities found in parsing. We therefore conducted some experiments on extracting statistical information for PP attachment from a corpus, and on applying such …...

. In this paper, I try to show the advantages of analyzing events in terms of subevent structure, by taking into consideration the case of a specific class of verbs: transitive and intransitive verbs which obligatorily require the presence of a predicative complement (e.g., English seem, consider). The proposed analysis …...

. This study investigates semantic constraints affecting the order of motion morphemes in Mandarin multi-morpheme motion constructions (e.g., tui-hui recede-return). It classifies Chinese motion morphemes into three major types and proposes a “Scalar Specificity Constraint” to account for the order in multi-morpheme motion constructions. The constraint not only provides a …...

. Tenny (1987, 1994: 79) proposes the Single Delimiting Constraint that the event described by a verb can only be delimited once (cf. Goldberg 1991, 1995). The constraint applies the effects of delimitedness as an aspectual property to the mapping of semantics and syntax, and explains why sentences with two …...

. Event nouns can lexically encode eventive information. Recently these nouns have generated considerable scholarly interest. However, little research has been conducted in their morphological and syntactic structure, qualia modification, event representing feature, and information inheritance characteristics. This study has these main findings. 1) Morphologically, the modifier and the head …...

. We propose a system for flexibly judging the misusage of honorifics in Japanese sentence. The system can point out misused words and phrases, and can also indicate how they are misused. The system uses judgment rules whose degrees of validity in modern Japanese society are quantified by psychological experiments. …...