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Sentiment Analysis in Twitter for Macedonian
Dame Jovanoski, Veno Pachovski, Preslav Nakov
We present work on sentiment analysis in Twitter for Macedonian. As this is pioneering work for this combination of language and genre, we created suitable resources for training a…
Translating from Morphologically Complex Languages: A Paraphrase-Based Approach
Preslav Nakov, Hwee Tou Ng
We propose a novel approach to translating from a morphologically complex language. Unlike previous research, which has targeted word inflections and concatenations, we focus on th…
Analyzing the Use of Character-Level Translation with Sparse and Noisy Datasets
Jörg Tiedemann, Preslav Nakov
This paper provides an analysis of character-level machine translation models used in pivot-based translation when applied to sparse and noisy datasets, such as crowdsourced movie…
Feature-Rich Named Entity Recognition for Bulgarian Using Conditional Random Fields
Georgi Georgiev, Preslav Nakov, Kuzman Ganchev +2
The paper presents a feature-rich approach to the automatic recognition and categorization of named entities (persons, organizations, locations, and miscellaneous) in news text for…
SUper Team at SemEval-2016 Task 3: Building a feature-rich system for community question answering
Tsvetomila Mihaylova, Pepa Gencheva, Martin Boyanov +9
We present the system we built for participating in SemEval-2016 Task 3 on Community Question Answering. We achieved the best results on subtask C, and strong results on subtasks A…
Exposing Paid Opinion Manipulation Trolls
Todor Mihaylov, Ivan Koychev, Georgi Georgiev +1
Recently, Web forums have been invaded by opinion manipulation trolls. Some trolls try to influence the other users driven by their own convictions, while in other cases they can b…