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This paper describes our word sense dis- ambiguation (WSD) system participating in the SemEval-2007 tasks. The core system is a fully supervised system based on a Na- ïve Bayes classifier using multiple knowl- edge sources. Toward a larger goal of in- corporating the intrinsic nature of individ- ual target words …...

This paper presents a combined super- vised and unsupervised approach for multi- document person name disambiguation. Based on feature vectors reflecting pairwise comparisons between web pages, a classifi- cation algorithm provides linking informa- tion about document pairs, which leads to initial clusters. In addition, two different clustering algorithms are fed …...

This task consists of recognizing words and phrases that evoke semantic frames as defined in the FrameNet project (http: //framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu), and their semantic dependents, which are usually, but not always, their syntactic dependents (including subjects). The train- ing data was FN annotated sentences. testing, participants automatically annotatedIn three previously unseen …...

In this paper, we present the details of the Arabic Semantic Labeling task. We describe some of the features of Arabic that are rele- vant for the task. The task comprises two subtasks: Arabic word sense disambiguation and Arabic semantic role labeling. The task focuses on modern standard Arabic. 1...

This paper describes our experience in preparing the data and evaluating the results for three subtasks of SemEval-2007 Task-17 – Lexical Sample, Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) and All-Words respectively. We tab- ulate and analyze the results of participating systems. 1...

AbstractThe use/use for relationship a thesaurus is usually more complex than the (para-) synonymy recommended in the ISO-2788 standard describing the content of these controlled vocabularies. The fact that a non preferred term can refer to multiple preferred terms (only the latter are relevant in controlled indexing) makes this relationship …...

AbstractCognates are pairs of words in different languages similar in spelling and meaning. They can help a second-language learner on the tasks of vocabulary expansion and reading comprehension. False friends are pairs of words that have similar spelling but different meanings. Partial cognates are pairs of words in two languages …...

AbstractIn this article we address the task of automatic text structuring into linear and non-overlapping thematic episodes. Our investigation reports on the use of various lexical, acoustic and syntactic features, and makes a comparison of how these features influence performance of automatic topic segmentation. Using datasets containing multi-party meeting transcriptions, …...

. The goal of automatic phrase break prediction is to identify prosodic-syntactic boundaries in text which correspond to the way a native speaker might process or chunk that same text as speech. This is treated as a classification task in machine learning and output predictions from language models are evaluated …...

. In this paper, we first propose a terminology to be used in the French presentation of evaluation results of automatic summaries. In the second part of the paper, we describe experimental parameters that should be included in the presentation of evaluation results, based on the analysis of twenty-two experiments …...

. As one of the most well-defined subtasks in Natural Language Generation (NLG), the generation of referring expressions looks like a strong candidate for piloting shared evaluation tasks. Different to other areas of Natural Language Processing, it is still unclear what benefit the...

. We present the approach we adopted to carry out a system oriented evaluation in the context of the development of a word alignment system, ALIBI. We look at three evaluation procedures corresponding to fundamental aspects in the development of natural language pro- cessing systems: an evaluation resulting from the …...

. Research in natural language processing (NLP) has both scientific and technological dimensions. In both cases, it is necessary to evaluate the implemented systems in order to assess the success of a study. This article, grounded in the ISO framework for software evaluation, introduces a typology of NLP systems based …...

. External methods for evaluating MT systems define various measures based on MT results and their usage. While operational systems are mostly evaluated since long by task- based methods, evaluation campaigns of the last years use (parsimoniously) quite expensive subjective methods based on unreliable human judgments, and (for the most …...

. It is suggested that the difference between co-referential and bound reflexive pronouns found in many languages can be accounted for by using the notion of the case extension of a type <1> quantifier. Given this proposal the co-referential pronouns get their meaning when the corresponding NP takes nominal case …...

. This paper investigates children’s comprehension and production of demonstrative pronouns (DPs), ‘zhege’ (this) and ‘nage’ (that), in Mandarin Chinese. Subjects are children of ages three, four, five and six. Based on the results of the present experiment, children’s developmental stages and the corresponding age grading are provided. Also, the …...

. This article investigates the use of distal demonstrative Hitlo in Taiwanese Southern Min (TSM) from a discourse-pragmatic perspective. The analysis is based on a 5-hour corpus of spoken data, including daily conversations, radio interviews, TV drama series, and some random examples. A total of 172 tokens of Hitlos are …...

. Named entity translation plays an important role in many applications, such as information retrieval and machine translation. In this paper, we focus on translating person names, the most common type of name entity in Korean-Chinese cross language information retrieval (KCIR). Unlike other languages, Chinese uses characters (ideographs), which makes …...

. This study explores the textual characteristics, more precisely the quantity and diversity of nouns, of Japanese prime ministers' Diet addresses. In the field of stylistics, textual characteristics independent of the content have been examined with the aim on detecting the authors, genres, and chronological variations of texts. This study …...

. In this paper, we propose a method to classify movie review documents into positive or negative opinions. There are several approaches to classify documents. The previous studies, however, used only a single classifier for the classification task. We describe a multiple classifier for the review document classification task. The …...