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Empirical Discovery in Linguistics
A discovery system for detecting correspondences in data is described, based on the familiar induction methods of J. S. Mill. Given a set of observations, the system induces the ``causally''…
Vladimir PericlievJun 26, 1995
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Deriving Procedural and Warning Instructions from Device and Environment Models
This study is centred on the generation of instructions for household appliances. We show how knowledge about a device, together with knowledge about the environment, can be used for reasoning about…
Daniel AnsariJun 24, 1995
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Prepositional Phrase Attachment through a Backed-Off Model
Recent work has considered corpus-based or statistical approaches to the problem of prepositional phrase attachment ambiguity. Typically, ambiguous verb phrases of the form v np1 p np2 are resolved…
Michael Collins, James BrooksJun 22, 1995
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GLR-Parsing of Word Lattices Using a Beam Search Method
This paper presents an approach that allows the efficient integration of speech recognition and language understanding using Tomita's generalized LR-parsing algorithm. For this purpose the…
Steffen StaabJun 22, 1995
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Review of Charniak's "Statistical Language Learning"
This article is an in-depth review of Eugene Charniak's book, "Statistical Language Learning". The review evaluates the appropriateness of the book as an introductory text for statistical…
David M. MagermanJun 21, 1995
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Intelligent Voice Prosthesis: Converting Icons into Natural Language Sentences
The Intelligent Voice Prosthesis is a communication tool which reconstructs the meaning of an ill-structured sequence of icons or symbols, and expresses this meaning into sentences of a Natural…
Pascal Vaillant, Michael CheclerJun 21, 1995
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The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution
By strictest interpretation, theories of both centering and intonational meaning fail to predict the existence of pitch accented pronominals. Yet they occur felicitously in spoken discourse. To…
Janet CahnJun 18, 1995
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Ambiguity in the Acquisition of Lexical Information
This paper describes an approach to the automatic identification of lexical information in on-line dictionaries. This approach uses bootstrapping techniques, specifically so that ambiguity in the…
Lucy VanderwendeJun 14, 1995
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Indefeasible Semantics and Defeasible Pragmatics
An account of utterance interpretation in discourse needs to face the issue of how the discourse context controls the space of interacting preferences. Assuming a discourse processing architecture…
Megumi KameyamaJun 14, 1995
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Inducing Features of Random Fields
We present a technique for constructing random fields from a set of training samples. The learning paradigm builds increasingly complex fields by allowing potential functions, or features, that are…
S. Della Pietra, V. Della Pietra, J. LaffertyJun 13, 1995
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A Study of the Context(s) in a Specific Type of Texts: Car Accident Reports
This paper addresses the issue of defining context, and more specifically the different contexts needed for understanding a particular type of texts. The corpus chosen is homogeneous and allows us to…
Dominique Estival, Francoise GayralJun 13, 1995
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Presenting Punctuation
Until recently, punctuation has received very little attention in the linguistics and computational linguistics literature. Since the publication of Nunberg's (1990) monograph on the topic,…
Michael WhiteJun 10, 1995
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Unification-Based Glossing
We present an approach to syntax-based machine translation that combines unification-style interpretation with statistical processing. This approach enables us to translate any Japanese newspaper…
Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou, Kevin KnightJun 10, 1995
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Two-level, Many-Paths Generation
Large-scale natural language generation requires the integration of vast amounts of knowledge: lexical, grammatical, and conceptual. A robust generator must be able to operate well even when pieces…
Kevin Knight, Vasileios HatzivassiloglouJun 10, 1995
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Filling Knowledge Gaps in a Broad-Coverage Machine Translation System
Knowledge-based machine translation (KBMT) techniques yield high quality in domains with detailed semantic models, limited vocabulary, and controlled input grammar. Scaling up along these dimensions…
Kevin Knight, Ishwar Chander, Matthew Haines et al.Jun 10, 1995
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CLiFF Notes: Research in the Language, Information and Computation Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania
Short abstracts by computational linguistics researchers at the University of Pennsylvania describing ongoing individual and joint projects.
Editors, :, Matthew Stone et al.Jun 9, 1995
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A Support Tool for Tagset Mapping
Many different tagsets are used in existing corpora; these tagsets vary according to the objectives of specific projects (which may be as far apart as robust parsing vs. spelling correction). In many…
Simone TeufelJun 8, 1995
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Features and Agreement
This paper compares the consistency-based account of agreement phenomena in `unification-based' grammars with an implication-based account based on a simple feature extension to Lambek Categorial…
Sam Bayer, Mark JohnsonJun 8, 1995
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Automatic Extraction of Tagset Mappings from Parallel-Annotated Corpora
This paper describes some of the recent work of project AMALGAM (automatic mapping among lexico-grammatical annotation models). We are investigating ways to map between the leading corpus annotation…
John Hughes, Clive Souter, Eric AtwellJun 8, 1995
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Using Higher-Order Logic Programming for Semantic Interpretation of Coordinate Constructs
Many theories of semantic interpretation use lambda-term manipulation to compositionally compute the meaning of a sentence. These theories are usually implemented in a language such as Prolog that…
Seth KulickJun 6, 1995
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Weak subsumption Constraints for Type Diagnosis: An Incremental Algorithm
We introduce constraints necessary for type checking a higher-order concurrent constraint language, and solve them with an incremental algorithm. Our constraint system extends rational unification by…
Martin Mueller, Joachim NiehrenJun 2, 1995
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Syllable parsing in English and French
In this paper I argue that Optimality Theory provides for an explanatory model of syllabic parsing in English and French. The argument is based on psycholinguistic facts that have been mysterious up…
Michael HammondJun 2, 1995
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Ma(r)king concessions in English and German
In order to generate cohesive discourse, many of the relations holding between text segments need to be signalled to the reader by means of cue words, or discourse markers. Programs usually do…
Brigitte Grote, Nils Lenke, Manfred StedeJun 1, 1995
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Hybrid Transfer in an English-French Spoken Language Translator
The paper argues the importance of high-quality translation for spoken language translation systems. It describes an architecture suitable for rapid development of high-quality limited-domain…
Manny Rayner, Pierrette BouillonMay 26, 1995
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Automatic Evaluation and Uniform Filter Cascades for Inducing N-Best Translation Lexicons
This paper shows how to induce an N-best translation lexicon from a bilingual text corpus using statistical properties of the corpus together with four external knowledge sources. The knowledge…
I. Dan MelamedMay 25, 1995
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