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Extraction of V-N-Collocations from Text Corpora: A Feasibility Study for German
The usefulness of a statistical approach suggested by Church et al. (1991) is evaluated for the extraction of verb-noun (V-N) collocations from German text corpora. Some problematic issues of that…
Elisabeth BreidtMar 18, 1996
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Integrated speech and morphological processing in a connectionist continuous speech understanding for Korean
A new tightly coupled speech and natural language integration model is presented for a TDNN-based continuous possibly large vocabulary speech recognition system for Korean. Unlike popular n-best…
Geunbae Lee, Jong-Hyeok LeeMar 18, 1996
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Attempto Controlled English (ACE)
Attempto Controlled English (ACE) allows domain specialists to interactively formulate requirements specifications in domain concepts. ACE can be accurately and efficiently processed by a computer,…
Norbert E. Fuchs, Rolf SchwitterMar 13, 1996
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Attempto - From Specifications in Controlled Natural Language towards Executable Specifications
Deriving formal specifications from informal requirements is difficult since one has to take into account the disparate conceptual worlds of the application domain and of software development. To…
Rolf Schwitter, Norbert E. FuchsMar 12, 1996
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Finite-State Approximation of Phrase-Structure Grammars
Phrase-structure grammars are effective models for important syntactic and semantic aspects of natural languages, but can be computationally too demanding for use as language models in real-time…
Fernando C. N. Pereira, Rebecca N. WrightMar 8, 1996
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Speech Recognition by Composition of Weighted Finite Automata
We present a general framework based on weighted finite automata and weighted finite-state transducers for describing and implementing speech recognizers. The framework allows us to represent…
Fernando C. N. Pereira, Michael D. RileyMar 7, 1996
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Assessing agreement on classification tasks: the kappa statistic
Currently, computational linguists and cognitive scientists working in the area of discourse and dialogue argue that their subjective judgments are reliable using several different statistics, none…
Jean CarlettaFeb 27, 1996
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Text Windows and Phrases Differing by Discipline, Location in Document, and Syntactic Structure
Knowledge of window style, content, location and grammatical structure may be used to classify documents as originating within a particular discipline or may be used to place a document on a theory…
Robert M. LoseeFeb 18, 1996
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Situations and Computation: An Overview of Recent Research
Serious thinking about the computational aspects of situation theory is just starting. There have been some recent proposals in this direction (viz. PROSIT and ASTL), with varying degrees of…
Erkan TIN, Varol AKMANFeb 15, 1996
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How Part-of-Speech Tags Affect Text Retrieval and Filtering Performance
Natural language processing (NLP) applied to information retrieval (IR) and filtering problems may assign part-of-speech tags to terms and, more generally, modify queries and documents. Analytic…
Robert M. LoseeFeb 8, 1996
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Parsing with Typed Feature Structures
In this paper we provide for parsing with respect to grammars expressed in a general TFS-based formalism, a restriction of ALE. Our motivation being the design of an abstract (WAM-like) machine for…
Shuly Wintner, Nissim FrancezJan 31, 1996
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Parsing with Typed Feature Structures
In this paper we provide for parsing with respect to grammars expressed in a general TFS-based formalism, a restriction of ALE. Our motivation being the design of an abstract (WAM-like) machine for…
Shuly Wintner, Nissim FrancezJan 31, 1996
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A General Architecture for Language Engineering (GATE) - a new approach to Language Engineering R&D
This report argues for the provision of a common software infrastructure for NLP systems. Current trends in Language Engineering research are reviewed as motivation for this infrastructure, and…
Hamish Cunningham, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Yorick WilksJan 23, 1996
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Context-Sensitive Measurement of Word Distance by Adaptive Scaling of a Semantic Space
The paper proposes a computationally feasible method for measuring context-sensitive semantic distance between words. The distance is computed by adaptive scaling of a semantic space. In the semantic…
Hideki Kozima, Akira ItoJan 23, 1996
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Noun Phrase Reference in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation
This paper shows the necessity of distinguishing different referential uses of noun phrases in machine translation. We argue that differentiating between the generic, referential and ascriptive uses…
Francis Bond, Kentaro Ogura, Tsukasa KawaokaJan 23, 1996
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Possessive Pronouns as Determiners in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation
Possessive pronouns are used as determiners in English when no equivalent would be used in a Japanese sentence with the same meaning. This paper proposes a heuristic method of generating such…
Francis Bond, Kentaro Ogura, Satoru IkeharaJan 23, 1996
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Text Segmentation Based on Similarity between Words
This paper proposes a new indicator of text structure, called the lexical cohesion profile (LCP), which locates segment boundaries in a text. A text segment is a coherent scene; the words in a…
Hideki KozimaJan 23, 1996
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Similarity between Words Computed by Spreading Activation on an English Dictionary
This paper proposes a method for measuring semantic similarity between words as a new tool for text analysis. The similarity is measured on a semantic network constructed systematically from a subset…
Hideki Kozima, Teiji FurugoriJan 23, 1996
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Report of the Study Group on Assessment and Evaluation
This is an interim report discussing possible guidelines for the assessment and evaluation of projects developing speech and language systems. It was prepared at the request of the European…
Richard Crouch, Robert Gaizauskas, Klaus NetterJan 18, 1996
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Generic rules and non-constituent coordination
We present a metagrammatical formalism, generic rules, to give a default interpretation to grammar rules. Our formalism introduces a process of dynamic binding interfacing the level of…
Julio Gonzalo, Teresa SoliasJan 9, 1996
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Automatic Inference of DATR Theories
This paper presents an approach for the automatic acquisition of linguistic knowledge from unstructured data. The acquired knowledge is represented in the lexical knowledge representation language…
Petra BargJan 4, 1996
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Term Encoding of Typed Feature Structures
This paper presents an approach to Prolog-style term encoding of typed feature structures. The type feature structures to be encoded are constrained by appropriateness conditions as in…
Dale GerdemannDec 22, 1995
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Natural language processing: she needs something old and something new (maybe something borrowed and something blue, too)
Given the present state of work in natural language processing, this address argues first, that advance in both science and applications requires a revival of concern about what language is about,…
Karen Sparck JonesDec 21, 1995
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Limited Attention and Discourse Structure
This squib examines the role of limited attention in a theory of discourse structure and proposes a model of attentional state that relates current hierarchical theories of discourse structure to…
Marilyn A. WalkerDec 18, 1995
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The Unsupervised Acquisition of a Lexicon from Continuous Speech
We present an unsupervised learning algorithm that acquires a natural-language lexicon from raw speech. The algorithm is based on the optimal encoding of symbol sequences in an MDL framework, and…
Carl de MarckenDec 13, 1995
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