ESTROM 2008 International Conference

Coling 2008 22 nd International Conference on

This paper presents a CRF (Conditional Random Field) model for Semantic Chunk Annotation in a Chinese Question and Answering System (SCACQA). The model was derived from a corpus of real world questions, which are collected from some discussion groups on the Internet. The questions are supposed to be answered by other people, so some of the questions are very complex. Mutual information was adop...

2008 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE 2008), 24-26 April 2008, Busan, Korea

International Conference on Islamic Awakening

Recent developments in the middle-east have been differently explained by different figures and dignitaries from different countries of the world. Calling these developments as "Islamic awakening", "Human awakening", "Arab Spring" and "Purple Revolution" indicates there are different theories in this regard definitely leading to different measures in the political arena. Among supreme leader's ...

Coling 2008 22 nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics

This paper examines the Stanford typed dependencies representation, which was designed to provide a straightforward description of grammatical relations for any user who could benefit from automatic text understanding. For such purposes, we argue that dependency schemes must follow a simple design and provide semantically contentful information, as well as offer an automatic procedure to extrac...

ICON - 2008 6 th International Conference on Natural Language Processing

In this paper we describe our progress towards building an interlingua based machine translation system, by capturing the semantics of the source language sentences in the form of Universal Networking Language (UNL) graphs from which the target language sentences can be produced. There are two stages to the UNL graph generation: first, the conceptual arguments of a situation are identified in t...