Patrick Ziering


2017

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Evaluating Compound Splitters Extrinsically with Textual Entailment
Glorianna Jagfeld | Patrick Ziering | Lonneke van der Plas
Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

Traditionally, compound splitters are evaluated intrinsically on gold-standard data or extrinsically on the task of statistical machine translation. We explore a novel way for the extrinsic evaluation of compound splitters, namely recognizing textual entailment. Compound splitting has great potential for this novel task that is both transparent and well-defined. Moreover, we show that it addresses certain aspects that are either ignored in intrinsic evaluations or compensated for by taskinternal mechanisms in statistical machine translation. We show significant improvements using different compound splitting methods on a German textual entailment dataset.

2016

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Towards Unsupervised and Language-independent Compound Splitting using Inflectional Morphological Transformations
Patrick Ziering | Lonneke van der Plas
Proceedings of the 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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Top a Splitter: Using Distributional Semantics for Improving Compound Splitting
Patrick Ziering | Stefan Müller | Lonneke van der Plas
Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Multiword Expressions

2015

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From a Distance: Using Cross-lingual Word Alignments for Noun Compound Bracketing
Patrick Ziering | Lonneke van der Plas
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics

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One Tree is not Enough: Cross-lingual Accumulative Structure Transfer for Semantic Indeterminacy
Patrick Ziering | Lonneke van der Plas
Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing

2014

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What good are ‘Nominalkomposita’ for ‘noun compounds’: Multilingual Extraction and Structure Analysis of Nominal Compositions using Linguistic Restrictors
Patrick Ziering | Lonneke van der Plas
Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers

2013

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Multilingual Lexicon Bootstrapping - Improving a Lexicon Induction System Using a Parallel Corpus
Patrick Ziering | Lonneke van der Plas | Hinrich Schütze
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

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Bootstrapping Semantic Lexicons for Technical Domains
Patrick Ziering | Lonneke van der Plas | Hinrich Schütze
Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

2012

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A Corpus-based Study of the German Recipient Passive
Patrick Ziering | Sina Zarrieß | Jonas Kuhn
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

In this paper, we investigate the usage of a non-canonical German passive alternation for ditransitive verbs, the recipient passive, in naturally occuring corpus data. We propose a classifier that predicts the voice of a ditransitive verb based on the contextually determined properties its arguments. As the recipient passive is a low frequent phenomenon, we first create a special data set focussing on German ditransitive verbs which are frequently used in the recipient passive. We use a broad-coverage grammar-based parser, the German LFG parser, to automatically annotate our data set for the morpho-syntactic properties of the involved predicate arguments. We train a Maximum Entropy classifier on the automatically annotated sentences and achieve an accuracy of 98.05%, clearly outperforming the baseline that always predicts active voice baseline (94.6%).