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This article presents the experiments carried out at Jadavpur University as part of the participation in Multi-Way Classification of Semantic Relations between Pairs of Nomi- nals in the SemEval 2010 exercise. Separate rules for each type of the relations are iden- tified in the baseline model based on the verbs …...

We describe a WordNet-based system for the extraction of semantic relations be- tween pairs of nominals appearing in English texts. The system adopts a lightweight approach, based on training a Bayesian Network classifier using large sets of binary features. Our features con- sider: i) the context surrounding the an- notated …...

The Semeval task 5 was an opportunity for experimenting with the key term ex- traction module of GROBID, a system for extracting and generating bibliographical information from technical and scientific documents. The tool first uses GROBID’s facilities for analyzing the structure of sci- entific articles, resulting in a first set …...

In this paper, we describe the system sub- mitted by the team TUD to Task 8 at SemEval 2010. The challenge focused on the identification of semantic relations be- tween pairs of nominals in sentences col- lected from the web. We applied max- imum entropy classification using both lexical and …...

This paper describes some of the kinds of pre- dictable errors in Machine Translation (MT). It then discusses means of alerting end-users of MT to the possible presence of such errors, including by providing training and/or by pro- viding automated MT ratings, MT color cod- ing and/or symbols, and footnotes …...

This paper presents a few ideas of the Center for Translation Studies at University of Illinois on the present and future of human and machine transla­ tion. In particular, as we will elaborate at our panel, we believe that we should focus more on how we prepare humanities students to …...

This paper is a case study of the deployment of new MT technology aiming at improving the overall Post-Editing (PE) experience. One of the main challenges in having MT output post-edited within a localization workflow is being able to meet ever increasing quality ex- pectations, especially from a terminology perspective. …...

. This study investigates the constraints imposed on the pseudogapping in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Based on the existing schema to account for coordination and gapping, a new pseudogapping schema in coordination structures is proposed in this paper. In the process of capturing the constraints, new …...

. The automatic extraction of semantic class instance is a foundational work for many natural language processing applications. One of its crucial problems is how to val- idate whether a candidate instances is a true class member. Different from the common validation approaches based on the cooccurrence between instances, we …...

. In past studies, there have been two major lines of analyses of the func- tion/meaning of the particle wa in Japanese in its thematic use. Some scholars argue that it marks a topic, while others claim that it marks ground (old, presupposed, or backgrounded information). I demonstrate, testing their …...

. This paper offers a new analysis of the raising to object construction in Japanese. This has been extensively discussed following Kuno (1976) for the case where the ma- trix predicate is an epistemic verb. Under CCG analysis an o-marked phrase is a surface- compositional object rather than a raised …...

. In this paper I aim at sketching out in bare outline a new model/framework of language processing with its implications for natural language processing. Research in theoretical linguistics, computational linguistics and mathematical linguistics has delineated the ways natural language can be represented and modeled. Studies in cognitive (neuro)science, on …...

. The ability to accurately classify temporal relations between events is an important task in a large number of natural language processing and text mining applications such as question answering, summarization, and language specific information retrieval. In this paper, we propose an improved way of classifying temporal relations, using support …...

. Systematic cross-linguistic studies of verbs syntactic-semantic behaviors for ty- pologically distant languages such as Mandarin Chinese and French are difficult to conduct. Such studies are nevertheless necessary due to the crucial role that verbal constructions play in the mental lexicon. This paper addresses the problem by combining psycho-linguistics and …...

. In phrase-based statistical machine translation system, the parameters of model are usually obtained from minimum error rate training (MERT) on the development set. So the development set has a great influence on the performance of the translation system. Generally, more development set will achieve more effective and robust parameters …...

. The present study investigates how advice writers employ move sequences and modal verbs to achieve intended discourse functions. This paper aims to testify two research hypotheses: 1. Advice writers of different topics employ different moves and modal verbs to achieve discourse function, and 2. The differences may imply writers’ …...

. Negation and contrast transition are two kinds of linguistic phenomena which are popularly used to reverse the sentiment polarity of some words and sentences. In this paper, we propose an approach to incorporate their classification information into our sentiment classification system: First, we classify sentences into sentiment reversed and …...

. We introduce a method for learning to assign word senses to translation pairs. In our approach, this sense assignment or disambiguation problem is transformed into one on how to navigate through a sense network like WordNet aimed at distinguishing the more adequate senses from others. The method involves automatically …...

. This paper presents a linguistic analysis of emotions by introducing some concrete linguistic rules in identifying the important elements of an emotion, which are the experiencer and the cause. It specifically discusses two primary emotions, happiness and surprise, in Chinese. These rules can be very useful for emotion detection …...

. This study explores the scope properties of some indefinites in Japanese in terms of epsilon calculus. Different from ordinary noun phrases, quantificational noun phrases like indefinites are assigned higher-order categories and/or types in syntax, and taken to denote functions from sets to truth values in semantics, which results in …...