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Automatic Alignment of English-Chinese Bilingual Texts of CNS News
In this paper we address a method to align English-Chinese bilingual news reports from China News Service, combining both lexical and satistical approaches. Because of the sentential structure…
Donghua Xu, Chew Lim TanAug 27, 1996
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A Sign-Based Phrase Structure Grammar for Turkish
This study analyses Turkish syntax from an informational point of view. Sign based linguistic representation and principles of HPSG (Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar) theory are adapted to…
Onur Tolga SehitogluAug 26, 1996
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Morphological Productivity in the Lexicon
In this paper we outline a lexical organization for Turkish that makes use of lexical rules for inflections, derivations, and lexical category changes to control the proliferation of lexical entries.…
Onur Sehitoglu, Cem BozsahinAug 23, 1996
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Classifiers in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation
This paper proposes an analysis of classifiers into four major types: UNIT, METRIC, GROUP and SPECIES, based on properties of both Japanese and English. The analysis makes possible a uniform and…
Francis Bond, Kentaro Ogura, Satoru IkeharaAug 21, 1996
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A Word Grammar of Turkish with Morphophonemic Rules
In this thesis, morphological description of Turkish is encoded using the two-level model. This description is made up of the phonological component that contains the two-level morphophonemic rules,…
S. Murat OztanerAug 20, 1996
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Multilingual Text Analysis for Text-to-Speech Synthesis
We present a model of text analysis for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis based on (weighted) finite-state transducers, which serves as the text-analysis module of the multilingual Bell Labs TTS system.…
Richard SproatAug 19, 1996
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Punctuation in Quoted Speech
Quoted speech is often set off by punctuation marks, in particular quotation marks. Thus, it might seem that the quotation marks would be extremely useful in identifying these structures in texts.…
Christine DoranAug 16, 1996
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Fishing for Exactness
Statistical methods for automatically identifying dependent word pairs (i.e. dependent bigrams) in a corpus of natural language text have traditionally been performed using asymptotic tests of…
Ted PedersenAug 16, 1996
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Centering theory and the Italian pronominal system
In this paper, I give an account of some phenomena of pronominalization in Italian in terms of centering theory. After a general introduction to the Italian pronominal system, I will review…
Barbara Di EugenioAug 14, 1996
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The discourse functions of Italian subjects: a centering approach
This paper examines the discourse functions that different types of subjects perform in Italian within the centering framework. I build on my previous work (COLING90) that accounted for the…
Barbara Di EugenioAug 14, 1996
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Centering in Italian
This paper explores the correlation between centering and different forms of pronominal reference in Italian, in particular zeros and overt pronouns in subject position. Such correlations, that I had…
Barbara Di EugenioAug 14, 1996
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Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion using Multiple Unbounded Overlapping Chunks
We present in this paper an original extension of two data-driven algorithms for the transcription of a sequence of graphemes into the corresponding sequence of phonemes. In particular, our approach…
Francois YvonAug 14, 1996
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CLEARS - An Education and Research Tool for Computational Semantics
The CLEARS (Computational Linguistics Education and Research for Semantics) tool provides a graphical interface allowing interactive construction of semantic representations in a variety of different…
David Milward, Karsten Konrad, Holger Maier et al.Aug 13, 1996
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Patterns of Language - A Population Model for Language Structure
A key problem in the description of language structure is to explain its contradictory properties of specificity and generality, the contrasting poles of formulaic prescription and generative…
Robert John FreemanAug 9, 1996
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Stylistic Variation in an Information Retrieval Experiment
Texts exhibit considerable stylistic variation. This paper reports an experiment where a corpus of documents (N= 75 000) is analyzed using various simple stylistic metrics. A subset (n = 1000) of the…
Jussi KarlgrenAug 8, 1996
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Controlling Functional Uncertainty
There have been two different methods for checking the satisfiability of feature descriptions that use the functional uncertainty device, namely~Kaplan:88CO and Backofen:94JSC. Although…
Rolf BackofenAug 6, 1996
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Storage of Natural Language Sentences in a Hopfield Network
This paper look at how the Hopfield neural network can be used to store and recall patterns constructed from natural language sentences. As a pattern recognition and storage tool, the Hopfield neural…
Nigel CollierAug 2, 1996
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Automatic Construction of Clean Broad-Coverage Translation Lexicons
Word-level translational equivalences can be extracted from parallel texts by surprisingly simple statistical techniques. However, these techniques are easily fooled by indirect associations…
I. Dan MelamedAug 1, 1996
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Connected Text Recognition Using Layered HMMs and Token Passing
We present a novel approach to lexical error recovery on textual input. An advanced robust tokenizer has been implemented that can not only correct spelling mistakes, but also recover from…
Peter IngelsJul 31, 1996
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Completeness of Compositional Translation for Context-Free Grammars
A machine translation system is said to be *complete* if all expressions that are correct according to the source-language grammar can be translated into the target language. This paper addresses the…
Willem-Olaf HuijsenJul 31, 1996
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Using textual clues to improve metaphor processing
In this paper, we propose a textual clue approach to help metaphor detection, in order to improve the semantic processing of this figure. The previous works in the domain studied the semantic…
Stéphane FerrariJul 30, 1996
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Multiple Discourse Relations on the Sentential Level in Japanese
In the German government (BMBF) funded project Verbmobil, a semantic formalism Language for Underspecified Discourse Representation Structures (LUD) is used which describes several DRSs and allows…
Yoshiki MoriJul 30, 1996
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A Lexical Semantic Database for Verbmobil
This paper describes the development and use of a lexical semantic database for the Verbmobil speech-to-speech machine translation system. The motivation is to provide a common information source for…
Johannes Heinecke, Karsten L. WormJul 30, 1996
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Compositional Semantics in Verbmobil
The paper discusses how compositional semantics is implemented in the Verbmobil speech-to-speech translation system using LUD, a description language for underspecified discourse representation…
Johan Bos, Björn Gambäck, Christian Lieske et al.Jul 30, 1996
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Using Multiple Sources of Information for Constraint-Based Morphological Disambiguation
This thesis presents a constraint-based morphological disambiguation approach that is applicable to languages with complex morphology--specifically agglutinative languages with productive…
Gokhan TurJul 30, 1996
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