... Developing an approach for why-question answering
Suzan Verberne
Dept. of Language and Speech
Radboud University Nijmegen
s.verberne@let.ru.nl
Abstract
In the current project, we aim at
developing an approach ... asked to formulate one to six
why-questions for this text, and to formulate an
answer to each of these questions. The
participants were explicitly told that it was
es...
... temperature) and then used as primary anti-
body for standard ELISA to detect the antigenic peptide
SRFQPSQSSTYSQPG (0.1 lg ⁄ well).
Cell culture
The EBV-transformed human B-cell line, WT100, and the
immortalized ... further enhance the
specificity of the antibody. The antibody was preincu-
bated with different concentrations of CatE and CatD,
before a standard ELISA was performed to detect...
... which four languages are involved: Eng-
lish, French, Spanish, and German. The shared task
performed translation between English and the
other three languages. In our work, we perform
translation ... 0.3077,
and 0.3355 for the pivot models using English,
German, and both German and English as pivot
languages, respectively.
With the pivot model using both English and
German as pivot...
... Annual Meeting of the Association for
Italian restaurants in Chelsea by saying show cheap
italian restaurants in chelsea, by circling an area on
the map and saying show cheap italian restaurants
in ... Mobile Information Access
In urban environments tourists and residents alike
need access to a complex and constantly changing
body of information regarding restaurants, theatre
schedules, t...
... non-
literal language and because knowing that an ex-
pression can be used nonliterally does not mean
that you can tell when it is being used nonliter-
ally. The target verbs may not, and typically ... average
of literal and nonliteral precision; similarly for av-
erage recall. For overall performance, we take the
f-score of average precision and average recall.
We calculated two baseli...
... paper, we define an analogous formalism
that can be used to define, analyze and compare de-
pendency parsers. We use this framework to provide
uniform, high-level descriptions for a wide range of
well-known ... con-
necting spans which can represent disconnected de-
pendency graphs. Such spans cannot be represented
by a single dependency tree. Therefore, our formal-
ism allows items to be s...
... actors
and actions. For instance, while a Christian
knight may attempt to marry any Saracen
woman, even one who is already married, a
Saracen man may not woo a Christian woman,
married or not. ... oppose Charles and Bertrand.
Clarion opposed Charles and Bertrand
in getting Blancheflor.
Charles succeeded in getting
Blancheflor.
Charles praised God.
Charles rewarded Bertrand.
[The...
... Specificity
Tweet: Casablanca and a lunch comprising of rice
and fish: a good sunday
Keyword: Casablanca
Label by C-Feel-It: Positive
Label by human annotator: Objective
In the above tweet, the human annotator ... cre-
ated using semi-supervised approaches cannot clas-
sify all variants of tweets. Hence, we follow a rule-
based approach for predicting sentiment of a tweet.
An approach l...
... Chinese-English and
Arabic-English translation quality and sig-
nificantly reduces the phrase translation
table size.
1 Introduction
Data-driven approaches have been quite active in
recent machine translation ... data and the word alignment
have significant impacts on the learned transla-
tion models and ultimately the quality of transla-
tion output. Due to the high cost of commissioned
transl...
... Grenoble, France.
Courtin, J., Dujardin D. and Grandjean E. 1976
Editeur lexicographique pou_r les langues naturel-
les, Document Interne, I.R.M.A, Grenoble, France.
Courtin, J., Rieu J.L. and Szgall ... c.f.Courtin et al 1969.
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namy and the word grammar which controls word for-
marion and carries out the transmission of The
linguistic information needed for the processing.
In c...