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Identifying salient entities in web pages

by Michael Gamon, Tae Yano, Xinying Song, Johnson Apacible, Patrick Pantel - In CIKM , 2013
"... We propose a system that determines the salience of entities within web documents. Many recent advances in commer-cial search engines leverage the identification of entities in web pages. However, for many pages, only a small subset of entities are central to the document, which can lead to degraded ..."
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We propose a system that determines the salience of entities within web documents. Many recent advances in commer-cial search engines leverage the identification of entities in web pages. However, for many pages, only a small subset of entities are central to the document, which can lead

A Topic-Sensitive Model for Salient Entity Linking

by Lei Zhang , Cong Liu , Achim Rettinger
"... Abstract. In recent years, the amount of entities in large knowledge bases available on the Web has been increasing rapidly. Such entities can be used to bridge textual data with knowledge bases and thus help with many tasks, such as text understanding, word sense disambiguation and information ret ..."
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to identify a set of salient entities that are central to the input document. In this paper, we introduce a new task of salient entity linking and propose a graph-based disambiguation solution, which integrates several features, especially a topic-sensitive model based on Wikipedia categories. Experimental

AN INVESTIGATION OF MUSICAL TIMBRE: UNCOVERING SALIENT SEMANTIC DESCRIPTORS AND PERCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS.

by Asteris Zacharakis, Kostantinos Pastiadis, Georgios Papadelis, Joshua D. Reiss
"... A study on the verbal attributes of musical timbre was con-ducted in an effort to identify the most significant semantic descriptors and to quantify the association between promi-nent timbral aspects and several categorical properties of environmental entities. A verbal attribute magnitude esti-mati ..."
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A study on the verbal attributes of musical timbre was con-ducted in an effort to identify the most significant semantic descriptors and to quantify the association between promi-nent timbral aspects and several categorical properties of environmental entities. A verbal attribute magnitude esti

Gem-based Entity-Knowledge Maintenance

by Bilyana Taneva, Gerhard Weikum
"... Knowledge bases about entities have become a vital asset for Web search, recommendations, and analytics. Examples are Freebase being the core of the Google Knowledge Graph and the use of Wikipedia for distant supervision in numerous IR and NLP tasks. However, maintaining the knowledge about not so p ..."
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contents for given input entities. Our method, called GEM, generates salient contents about a given entity, using minimal assumptions about the underlying sources, while meeting the constraint that the user is willing to read only a certain amount of information. Salient content pieces have variable length

Quantifying the role of discourse topicality in speakers ’ choices of referring expressions

by Naho Orita, Eliana Vornov, Naomi H. Feldman
"... The salience of an entity in the discourse is correlated with the type of referring ex-pression that speakers use to refer to that entity. Speakers tend to use pronouns to refer to salient entities, whereas they use lexical noun phrases to refer to less salient entities. We propose a novel approach ..."
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The salience of an entity in the discourse is correlated with the type of referring ex-pression that speakers use to refer to that entity. Speakers tend to use pronouns to refer to salient entities, whereas they use lexical noun phrases to refer to less salient entities. We propose a novel approach

Context Modeling for IQA: The Role of Tasks and Entities

by Raffaella Bernardi, Manuel Kirschner
"... In a realistic Interactive Question Answering (IQA) setting, users frequently ask follow-up questions. By modeling how the questions ’ focus evolves in IQA dialogues, we want to describe what makes a particular follow-up question salient. We introduce a new focus model, and describe an implementatio ..."
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In a realistic Interactive Question Answering (IQA) setting, users frequently ask follow-up questions. By modeling how the questions ’ focus evolves in IQA dialogues, we want to describe what makes a particular follow-up question salient. We introduce a new focus model, and describe

An exploration of eye gaze in spoken language processing for multimodal conversational interfaces

by Shaolin Qu, Joyce Y. Chai - In NAACL’07 , 2007
"... Motivated by psycholinguistic findings, we are currently investigating the role of eye gaze in spoken language understanding for multimodal conversational systems. Our assumption is that, during human machine conversation, a user’s eye gaze on the graphical display indicates salient entities on whic ..."
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Motivated by psycholinguistic findings, we are currently investigating the role of eye gaze in spoken language understanding for multimodal conversational systems. Our assumption is that, during human machine conversation, a user’s eye gaze on the graphical display indicates salient entities

On-Line Accented Pronoun Interpretation in Discourse Context

by Jennifer Venditti Columbia, Jennifer J. Venditti, Columbia U, John Trueswell, Matthew Stone, Katherine Nautiyal, U. Penn, U. Penn
"... Pronouns uttered with a pitch accent are said to switch reference from the most salient entity in the context to a less salient entity (e.g. Akmajian & Jackendoff, 1970; Smyth, 1994; Kameyama, 1999). For example, in the spoken utterance "John hit Bill, then HE hit George", adult listen ..."
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Pronouns uttered with a pitch accent are said to switch reference from the most salient entity in the context to a less salient entity (e.g. Akmajian & Jackendoff, 1970; Smyth, 1994; Kameyama, 1999). For example, in the spoken utterance "John hit Bill, then HE hit George", adult

Semantically enhanced pronouns

by Donna K. Byron - In the Proceedings of DAARC2000: Third International Conference on Discourse Anaphora and Anaphor Resolution , 2000
"... This paper revisits the relationship between the form of referring expressions and the assumed salience of their referents. Previous work suggests that pronouns must refer to highly salient discourse entities, while descriptive noun phrases should be used to refer to less salient items. Our claim is ..."
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This paper revisits the relationship between the form of referring expressions and the assumed salience of their referents. Previous work suggests that pronouns must refer to highly salient discourse entities, while descriptive noun phrases should be used to refer to less salient items. Our claim

Never Look Back: An Alternative to Centering

by Michael Strube , 1998
"... I propose a model for determining the hearer's attentional state which depends solely on a list of salient discourse entities (S-list). The ordering among the elements of the S-list covers also the function of the backward-looking center in the cen- tering model. The ranking criteria for the S- ..."
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I propose a model for determining the hearer's attentional state which depends solely on a list of salient discourse entities (S-list). The ordering among the elements of the S-list covers also the function of the backward-looking center in the cen- tering model. The ranking criteria for the S
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