Identifying 1950s American Jazz Musicians: Fine-Grained IsA Extraction via Modifier Composition

no code implementations • ACL 2017 • Ellie Pavlick, Marius Pa{\c{s}}ca

We present a method for populating fine-grained classes (e. g., {``}1950s American jazz musicians{''}) with instances (e. g., Charles Mingus ).

The Role of Wikipedia in Text Analysis and Retrieval

no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Marius Pa{\c{s}}ca

This tutorial examines the characteristics, advantages and limitations of Wikipedia relative to other existing, human-curated resources of knowledge; derivative resources, created by converting semi-structured content in Wikipedia into structured data; the role of Wikipedia and its derivatives in text analysis; and the role of Wikipedia and its derivatives in enhancing information retrieval.

Coreference Resolution Information Retrieval +1

Revisiting Taxonomy Induction over Wikipedia

no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Amit Gupta, Francesco Piccinno, Mikhail Kozhevnikov, Marius Pa{\c{s}}ca, Daniele Pighin

Guided by multiple heuristics, a unified taxonomy of entities and categories is distilled from the Wikipedia category network.

Information Retrieval

Queries as a Source of Lexicalized Commonsense Knowledge

no code implementations • EMNLP 2014 • Marius Pa{\c{s}}ca

Acquisition of Noncontiguous Class Attributes from Web Search Queries

no code implementations • EACL 2014 • Marius Pa{\c{s}}ca

Open-Domain Fine-Grained Class Extraction from Web Search Queries

no code implementations • EMNLP 2013 • Marius Pa{\c{s}}ca

Attribute Extraction from Conjectural Queries

no code implementations • COLING 2012 • Marius Pa{\c{s}}ca

Attribute Attribute Extraction

Instance-Driven Attachment of Semantic Annotations over Conceptual Hierarchies

no code implementations • EACL 2012 • Janara Christensen, Marius Pa{\c{s}}ca