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  • Raymond J. Mooney

    Possible advisor · last author on 6 of their early first-author papers, 1989–1992

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  • A Machine Learning Approach to Coreference Resolution of Noun Phrases

    Wee Meng Soon, Hwee Tou Ng, Daniel Chung Yong Lim

    Computational Linguistics · 2001

    The learning approach to coreference resolution of noun phrases in unrestricted text is presented, indicating that on the general noun phrase coreference task, the learning approach holds promise and achieves accuracy comparable to that of nonlearning approaches.

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  • The CoNLL-2014 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction

    Hwee Tou Ng, Siew Mei Wu, Ted Briscoe, Christian Hadiwinoto, Raymond Hendy Susanto, Christopher Bryant

    Proceedings of the Eighteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task · 2014

    The task definition is given, the data sets are presented, and the evaluation metric and scorer used in the shared task are described, to give an overview of the various approaches adopted by the participating teams, and present the evaluation results.

    592
  • Feature selection, perception learning, and a usability case study for text categorization

    Hwee Tou Ng, Wei Boon Goh, Kok Leong Low

    International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) · 1997

    An automated learning approach to text categorization based on perception learning and a new feature selection metric, called correlation coefficient, is described and empirical results indicate that this approach outperforms the best published results on this % uters collection.

    588
  • A Neural Approach to Automated Essay Scoring

    Kaveh Taghipour, Hwee Tou Ng

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2016

    This paper develops an approach based on recurrent neural networks to learn the relation between an essay and its assigned score, without any feature engineering.

    570
  • Integrating multiple knowledge sources to disambiguate word sense

    Hwee Tou Ng, Hian Beng Lee

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 1996

    This approach integrates a diverse set of knowledge sources to disambiguate word sense, including part of speech of neighboring words, morphological form, the unordered set of surrounding words, local collocations, and verb-object syntactic relation.

    569
  • Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

    Mirella Lapata, Hwee Tou Ng

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2008

    554
  • Towards Robust Linguistic Analysis using OntoNotes

    Sameer Pradhan, Alessandro Moschitti, Nianwen Xue, Hwee Tou Ng, Anders J. Björkelund, Olga Uryupina, Yuchen Zhang, Zhi Zhong

    Iris (University of Trento) · 2013

    An analysis of the performance of publicly available, state-of-the-art tools on all layers and languages in the OntoNotes v5.0 corpus should set the benchmark for future development of various NLP components in syntax and semantics, and possibly encourage research towards an integrated system that makes use of the various layers jointly to improve overall performance.

    521
  • An Unsupervised Neural Attention Model for Aspect Extraction

    Ruidan He, Wee Sun Lee, Hwee Tou Ng, Daniel Dahlmeier

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2017

    A novel neural approach that improves coherence by exploiting the distribution of word co-occurrences through the use of neural word embeddings, and uses an attention mechanism to de-emphasize irrelevant words during training, further improving the coherence of aspects.

    431
  • Better Evaluation for Grammatical Error Correction

    Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng

    North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2012

    This work presents a novel method for evaluating grammatical error correction that is an algorithm for efficiently computing the sequence of phrase-level edits between a source sentence and a system hypothesis that achieves the highest overlap with the gold-standard annotation.

    420
  • Building a Large Annotated Corpus of Learner English: The NUS Corpus of Learner English

    Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng, Siew Mei Wu

    BEA@NAACL-HLT · 2013

    The annotation schema and the data collection and annotation process of NUCLE are described and an unpublished study of annotator agreement for grammatical error correction is reported on.

    407
  • The CoNLL-2013 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction

    Hwee Tou Ng, Siew Mei Wu, Yuanbin Wu, Christian Hadiwinoto, Joel Tetreault

    arXiv · 2025

    The CoNLL-2013 shared task was devoted to grammatical error correction and the task definition is given, the data sets are presented, and the evaluation metric and scorer used are described.

    357
  • It Makes Sense: A Wide-Coverage Word Sense Disambiguation System for Free Text

    Zhi Zhong, Hwee Tou Ng

    National University of Singapore · 2010

    The flexible framework of IMS allows users to integrate different preprocessing tools, additional features, and different classifiers, and it achieves state-of-the-art results on several SensEval and SemEval tasks.

    355
  • Named entity recognition

    Hai Leong Chieu, Hwee Tou Ng

    International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2002

    It is shown that the maximum entropy framework is able to make use of global information directly, and achieves performance that is comparable to the best previous machine learning-based NERs on M UC-6 and MUC-7 test data.

    337
  • Word Sense Disambiguation Improves Statistical Machine Translation

    Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng, David Chiang

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2007

    It is shown for the first time that integrating a WSD system improves the performance of a state-of-the-art statistical MT system on an actual translation task, and the improvement is statistically significant.

    329
  • Recognizing implicit discourse relations in the Penn Discourse Treebank

    Ziheng Lin, Min‐Yen Kan, Hwee Tou Ng

    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · 2009

    An implicit discourse relation classifier is presented in the Penn Discourse Treebank that considers the context of the two arguments, word pair information, as well as the arguments' internal constituent and dependency parses.

    313
  • A PDTB-styled end-to-end discourse parser

    Ziheng Lin, Hwee Tou Ng, Min‐Yen Kan

    Natural Language Engineering · 2012

    This work designed and developed an end-to-end discourse parser-to-parse free texts in the PDTB style in a fully data-driven approach and proposes and presents a comprehensive evaluation from both component-wise and error-cascading perspectives.

    302
  • An empirical evaluation of knowledge sources and learning algorithms for word sense disambiguation

    Yoong Keok Lee, Hwee Tou Ng

    Proceedings of the ACL-02 conference on Empirical methods in natural language processing - EMNLP '02 · 2002

    Evaluated knowledge sources include the part-of-speech of neighboring words, single words in the surrounding context, local collocations, and syntactic relations, and the SVM, Naive Bayes, AdaBoost, and decision tree algorithms.

    286
  • An Interactive Multi-Task Learning Network for End-to-End Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

    Ruidan He, Wee Sun Lee, Hwee Tou Ng, Daniel Dahlmeier

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2019

    An interactive multi-task learning network (IMN) is proposed which is able to jointly learn multiple related tasks simultaneously at both the token level as well as the document level and introduces a message passing architecture where information is iteratively passed to different tasks through a shared set of latent variables.

    282
  • Effective Modeling of Encoder-Decoder Architecture for Joint Entity and Relation Extraction

    Tapas K. Nayak, Hwee Tou Ng

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2020

    A representation scheme for relation tuples which enables the decoder to generate one word at a time like machine translation models and still finds all the tuples present in a sentence with full entity names of different length and with overlapping entities.

    279
  • Named entity recognition with a maximum entropy approach

    Hai Leong Chieu, Hwee Tou Ng

    Proceedings of the seventh conference on Natural language learning at HLT-NAACL 2003 - · 2003

    The named entity recognition (NER) task involves identifying noun phrases that are names, and assigning a class to each name.

    275
  • A Multilayer Convolutional Encoder-Decoder Neural Network for Grammatical Error Correction

    Shamil Chollampatt, Hwee Tou Ng

    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2018

    By ensembling multiple models, and incorporating an N-gram language model and edit features via rescoring, this novel method becomes the first neural approach to outperform the current state-of-the-art statistical machine translation-based approach, both in terms of grammaticality and fluency.

    239
  • Exploiting Document Knowledge for Aspect-level Sentiment Classification

    Ruidan He, Wee Sun Lee, Hwee Tou Ng, Daniel Dahlmeier

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2018

    Two approaches that transfer knowledge from document-level data, which is much less expensive to obtain, are explored to improve the performance of aspect-level sentiment classification.

    220
  • Effective Attention Modeling for Aspect-Level Sentiment Classification

    Ruidan He, Wee Sun Lee, Hwee Tou Ng, Daniel Dahlmeier

    International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2018

    This work proposes a method for target representation that better captures the semantic meaning of the opinion target and introduces an attention model that incorporates syntactic information into the attention mechanism.

    212
  • Chinese Part-of-Speech Tagging: One-at-a-Time or All-at-Once? Word-Based or Character-Based?

    Hwee Tou Ng, Jin Kiat Low

    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2004

    An in-depth study on issues of processing architecture and feature representation for Chinese POS tagging, within a maximum entropy framework, and builds a state-of-the-art Chinese word segmenter, which outperforms the best SIGHAN 2003 word segmenters in the closed track on 3 out of 4 test corpora.

    199
  • Exploiting parallel texts for word sense disambiguation

    Hwee Tou Ng, Bin Wang, Yee Seng Chan

    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) · 2003

    This paper evaluates an approach to automatically acquire sense-tagged training data from English-Chinese parallel corpora, which are then used for disambiguating the nouns in the SENSEVAL-2 English lexical sample task.

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