Multi-lingual Geoparsing based on Machine Translation

no code implementations • 6 Nov 2015 • Xu Chen, Han Zhang, Judith Gelernter

Our results for geoparsing Chinese and Arabic text using our multi-lingual geoparsing method are comparable to our results for geoparsing English text with our English tools.

Machine Translation Translation

Recognizing Extended Spatiotemporal Expressions by Actively Trained Average Perceptron Ensembles

no code implementations • 19 Aug 2015 • Wei Zhang, Yang Yu, Osho Gupta, Judith Gelernter

We collected and annotated data set by querying commercial web searches API with such spatiotemporal expressions as were missed by state-of-the- art parsers.

Active Learning Ensemble Learning +1

Exploring Metaphorical Senses and Word Representations for Identifying Metonyms

no code implementations • 19 Aug 2015 • Wei Zhang, Judith Gelernter

A metonym is a word with a figurative meaning, similar to a metaphor.