Machine Learning Methods

This paper describes a summarization system for technical chats and emails on the Linux kernel. To reflect the complex- ity and sophistication of the discussions, they are clustered according to …...

Japanese case markers, which indicate the gram- matical relation of the complement NP to the predicate, often pose challenges to the generation of Japanese text, be it done by a …...

Recently novel MT evaluation metrics have been presented which go beyond pure string matching, and which corre- late better than other existing metrics with human judgements. Other research in this …...

AbstractWe have recently converted a dependency treebank, consisting of ancient Greek and Latin texts, from one annotation scheme to another that was independently designed. This paper makes two observations about …...

This paper focuses on the tourism-related opinion mining, including tourism-related opinion detection and tourist attraction target identification. The experimental data are blog articles labeled as in the domestic tourism category …...

AbstractNatural language interfaces to data services will be a key technology to guarantee access to huge data repositories in an effortless way. This involves solving the complex problem of recognizing …...

We propose a simple and effective ap- proach to learn translation spans for the hierarchical phrase-based translation model. Our model evaluates if a source span should be covered by translation …...

AbstractThe goal of argumentation mining, an evolving research field in computational linguistics, is to design methods capable of analyzing people’s argumentation. In this article, we go beyond the state of …...

We present a corpus of multimodal spatial descriptions, as commonly occurring in route giving tasks. Participants provided natural spatial scene descriptions with speech and abstract deictic/iconic hand gestures. The scenes …...

AbstractWords of any language are to some extent related thought the ways they are formed. For instance, the verb ‘exempl-ify’ and the noun ‘example-s’ are both based on the word …...