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Acquiring Knowledge from Encyclopedic Texts
A computational model for the acquisition of knowledge from encyclopedic texts is described. The model has been implemented in a program, called SNOWY, that reads unedited texts from The World…
Fernando Gomez, Richard Hull, Carlos SegamiNov 4, 1994
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The "Whiteboard" Architecture: a way to integrate heterogeneous components of NLP systems
We present a new software architecture for NLP systems made of heterogeneous components, and demonstrate an architectural prototype we have built at ATR in the context of Speech Translation.
Christian Boitet, Mark SeligmanNov 4, 1994
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Bootstrapping A Wide-Coverage CCG from FB-LTAG
A number of researchers have noted the similarities between LTAGs and CCGs. Observing this resemblance, we felt that we could make use of the wide-coverage grammar developed in the XTAG project to…
Christine Doran, B. SrinivasNov 3, 1994
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Parsing Free Word-Order Languages in Polynomial Time
We present a parsing algorithm with polynomial time complexity for a large subset of V-TAG languages. V-TAG, a variant of multi-component TAG, can handle free-word order phenomena which are beyond…
Tilman Becker, Owen RambowNov 3, 1994
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The Linguistic Relevance of Quasi-Trees
We discuss two constructions (long scrambling and ECM verbs) which challenge most syntactic theories (including traditional TAG approaches) since they seem to require exceptional mechanisms and…
Anthony Kroch, Owen RambowNov 3, 1994
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Status of the XTAG System
XTAG is an ongoing project to develop a wide-coverage grammar for English, based on the Feature-based Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (FB-LTAG) formalism. The XTAG system integrates a…
Christy Doran, Dania Egedi, Beth Ann Hockey et al.Nov 3, 1994
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Constraining Lexical Selection Across Languages Using TAGs
Lexical selection in Machine Translation consists of several related components. Two that have received a lot of attention are lexical mapping from an underlying concept or lexical item, and choosing…
Dania Egedi, Martha PalmerNov 3, 1994
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Determining Determiner Sequencing: A Syntactic Analysis for English
Previous work on English determiners has primarily concentrated on their semantics or scoping properties rather than their complex ordering behavior. The little work that has been done on determiner…
Beth Ann Hockey, Dania EgediNov 3, 1994
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Adnominal adjectives, code-switching and lexicalized TAG
In codeswitching contexts, the language of a syntactic head determines the distribution of its complements. Mahootian 1993 derives this generalization by representing heads as the anchors of…
Shahrzad Mahootian, Beatrice SantoriniNov 2, 1994
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CLARE: A Contextual Reasoning and Cooperative Response Framework for the Core Language Engine
This report describes the research, design and implementation work carried out in building the CLARE system at SRI International, Cambridge, England. CLARE was designed as a natural language…
Hiyan Alshawi, David Carter, Richard Crouch et al.Nov 1, 1994
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Sublanguage Terms: Dictionaries, Usage, and Automatic Classification
The use of terms from natural and social scientific titles and abstracts is studied from the perspective of sublanguages and their specialized dictionaries. Different notions of sublanguage…
Robert M. Losee, Stephanie W. HaasNov 1, 1994
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A Comparison of Two Smoothing Methods for Word Bigram Models
A COMPARISON OF TWO SMOOTHING METHODS FOR WORD BIGRAM MODELS Linda Bauman Peto Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Abstract Word bigram models estimated from text corpora require…
Linda Bauman PetoOct 31, 1994
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Default Handling in Incremental Generation
Natural language generation must work with insufficient input. Underspecifications can be caused by shortcomings of the component providing the input or by the preliminary state of incrementally…
Karin Harbusch, Gen-ichiro Kikui, Anne KilgerOct 30, 1994
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Planning Argumentative Texts
This paper presents \, a text planner for argumentative texts. ś main feature is that it combines global hierarchical planning and unplanned organization of text with respect to local…
Xiaorong HuangOct 28, 1994
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Towards a More User-friendly Correction
We first present our view of detection and correction of syntactic errors. We then introduce a new correction method, based on heuristic criteria used to decide which correction should be preferred.…
Damien Genthial, Jacques Courtin, Jacques Menezo Equipe TrilanOct 27, 1994
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Feature-Based TAG in place of multi-component adjunction: Computational Implications
Using feature-based Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG), this paper presents linguistically motivated analyses of constructions claimed to require multi-component adjunction. These feature-based TAG…
B. A. Hockey, B. SrinivasOct 26, 1994
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Disambiguation of Super Parts of Speech (or Supertags): Almost Parsing
In a lexicalized grammar formalism such as Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar (LTAG), each lexical item is associated with at least one elementary structure (supertag) that localizes syntactic and…
Aravind K. Joshi, B. SrinivasOct 26, 1994
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Minimal Change and Bounded Incremental Parsing
Ideally, the time that an incremental algorithm uses to process a change should be a function of the size of the change rather than, say, the size of the entire current input. Based on a…
Mats WirénOct 25, 1994
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Probabilistic Tagging with Feature Structures
The described tagger is based on a hidden Markov model and uses tags composed of features such as part-of-speech, gender, etc. The contextual probability of a tag (state transition probability) is…
Andre KempeOct 25, 1994
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A Rule-Based Approach To Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation
In this paper, we describe a new corpus-based approach to prepositional phrase attachment disambiguation, and present results comparing performance of this algorithm with other corpus-based…
Eric Brill, Philip ResnikOct 25, 1994
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Syntactic Analysis Of Natural Language Using Linguistic Rules And Corpus-based Patterns
We are concerned with the syntactic annotation of unrestricted text. We combine a rule-based analysis with subsequent exploitation of empirical data. The rule-based surface syntactic analyser leaves…
Pasi Tapanainen, Timo JärvinenOct 25, 1994
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Automated tone transcription
In this paper I report on an investigation into the problem of assigning tones to pitch contours. The proposed model is intended to serve as a tool for phonologists working on instrumentally obtained…
Steven BirdOct 24, 1994
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A Freely Available Wide Coverage Morphological Analyzer for English
This paper presents a morphological lexicon for English that handles more than 317000 inflected forms derived from over 90000 stems. The lexicon is available in two formats. The first can be used by…
Daniel Karp, Yves Schabes, Martin Zaidel et al.Oct 24, 1994
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Korean to English Translation Using Synchronous TAGs
It is often argued that accurate machine translation requires reference to contextual knowledge for the correct treatment of linguistic phenomena such as dropped arguments and accurate lexical…
Dania Egedi, Martha Palmer, Hyun S. Park et al.Oct 24, 1994
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Reference Resolution Using Semantic Patterns in Japanese Newspaper Articles
Reference resolution is one of the important tasks in natural language processing. In this paper, the author first determines the referents and their locations of "dousha", literally meaning…
Takahiro WakaoOct 24, 1994
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