Kui Xu


2017

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Towards a Universal Sentiment Classifier in Multiple languages
Kui Xu | Xiaojun Wan
Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Existing sentiment classifiers usually work for only one specific language, and different classification models are used in different languages. In this paper we aim to build a universal sentiment classifier with a single classification model in multiple different languages. In order to achieve this goal, we propose to learn multilingual sentiment-aware word embeddings simultaneously based only on the labeled reviews in English and unlabeled parallel data available in a few language pairs. It is not required that the parallel data exist between English and any other language, because the sentiment information can be transferred into any language via pivot languages. We present the evaluation results of our universal sentiment classifier in five languages, and the results are very promising even when the parallel data between English and the target languages are not used. Furthermore, the universal single classifier is compared with a few cross-language sentiment classifiers relying on direct parallel data between the source and target languages, and the results show that the performance of our universal sentiment classifier is very promising compared to that of different cross-language classifiers in multiple target languages.

2015

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Annotation and Classification of an Email Importance Corpus
Fan Zhang | Kui Xu
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers)

2006

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A Maximum Entropy Framework that Integrates Word Dependencies and Grammatical Relations for Reading Comprehension
Kui Xu | Helen Meng | Fuliang Weng
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers

2005

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A Flexible Conversational Dialog System for MP3 Player
Fuliang Weng | Lawrence Cavedon | Badri Raghunathan | Danilo Mirkovic | Ben Bei | Heather Pon-Barry | Harry Bratt | Hua Cheng | Hauke Schmidt | Rohit Mishra | Brian Lathrop | Qi Zhang | Tobias Scheideck | Kui Xu | Tess Hand-Bender | Stanley Peters | Liz Shriberg | Carsten Bergmann
Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005 Interactive Demonstrations

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Design and Development of a Bilingual Reading Comprehension Corpus
Kui Xu | Helen Meng
International Journal of Computational Linguistics & Chinese Language Processing, Volume 10, Number 2, June 2005: Special Issue on Annotated Speech Corpora