We employ Maximum Entropy model to conduct sub-tree alignment between bilingual phrasal structure trees. Various lexical and structural knowledge is explored to measure the syntac...
In this paper we present a simplified shallow semantic parsing approach to learning the scope of negation (SoN). This is done by formulating it as a shallow semantic parsing probl...
Ambiguity of entity mentions and concept references is a challenge to mining text beyond surface-level keywords. We describe an effective method of disambiguating surface forms an...
Yiping Zhou, Lan Nie, Omid Rouhani-Kalleh, Flavian...
Temporal expressions in texts contain significant temporal information. Understanding temporal information is very useful in many NLP applications, such as information extraction,...
In this paper, we explore a CLIR-based approach to construct large-scale Chinese-English comparable corpora, which is valuable for translation knowledge mining. The initial source...