Skip to content

Computation and Language papers — page 34

cmp-lgBrowse archive

A Spanish Tagset for the CRATER Project
This working paper describes the Spanish tagset to be used in the context of CRATER, a CEC funded project aiming at the creation of a multilingual (English, French, Spanish) aligned corpus using the…
Fernando Sánchez LeónJun 14, 1994
Learn
An implemented model of punning riddles
In this paper, we discuss a model of simple question-answer punning, implemented in a program, JAPE, which generates riddles from humour-independent lexical entries. The model uses two main types of…
Kim Binsted, Graeme RitchieJun 13, 1994
Learn
A symbolic description of punning riddles and its computer implementation
Riddles based on simple puns can be classified according to the patterns of word, syllable or phrase similarity they depend upon. We have devised a formal model of the semantic and syntactic…
Kim Binsted, Graeme RitchieJun 13, 1994
Learn
A Complete and Recursive Feature Theory
Various feature descriptions are being employed in logic programming languages and constrained-based grammar formalisms. The common notational primitive of these descriptions are functional…
Rolf Backofen, Gert SmolkaJun 10, 1994
Learn
DPOCL: A Principled Approach to Discourse Planning
Research in discourse processing has identified two representational requirements for discourse planning systems. First, discourse plans must adequately represent the intentional structure of the…
R. Michael Young, Johanna D. MooreJun 10, 1994
Learn
TDL--- A Type Description Language for Constraint-Based Grammars
This paper presents , a typed feature-based representation language and inference system. Type definitions in \ consist of type and feature constraints over the boolean connectives. \…
Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Ulrich SchäferJun 8, 1994
Learn
An Automatic Method of Finding Topic Boundaries
This article outlines a new method of locating discourse boundaries based on lexical cohesion and a graphical technique called dotplotting. The application of dotplotting to discourse segmentation…
Jeffrey C. ReynarJun 7, 1994
Learn
Corpus-Driven Knowledge Acquisition for Discourse Analysis
The availability of large on-line text corpora provides a natural and promising bridge between the worlds of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML). In recent years, the NLP…
Stephen Soderland, Wendy LehnertJun 7, 1994
Learn
Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary
We describe a method of using statistically-collected Chinese character groups from a corpus to augment a Chinese dictionary. The method is particularly useful for extracting domain-specific and…
Pascale Fung, Dekai WuJun 7, 1994
Learn
A Hybrid Reasoning Model for Indirect Answers
This paper presents our implemented computational model for interpreting and generating indirect answers to Yes-No questions. Its main features are 1) a discourse-plan-based approach to implicature,…
Nancy Green, Sandra CarberryJun 7, 1994
Learn
Graded Unification: A Framework for Interactive Processing
An extension to classical unification, called graded unification is presented. It is capable of combining contradictory information. An interactive processing paradigm and parser based on this…
Albert KimJun 5, 1994
Learn
Self-Organizing Machine Translation: Example-Driven Induction of Transfer Functions
With the advent of faster computers, the notion of doing machine translation from a huge stored database of translation examples is no longer unreasonable. This paper describes an attempt to merge…
Patrick JuolaJun 3, 1994
Learn
Exploring the Statistical Derivation of Transformational Rule Sequences for Part-of-Speech Tagging
Eric Brill has recently proposed a simple and powerful corpus-based language modeling approach that can be applied to various tasks including part-of-speech tagging and building phrase structure…
Lance A. Ramshaw, Mitchell P. MarcusJun 3, 1994
Learn
Some Advances in Transformation-Based Part of Speech Tagging
Most recent research in trainable part of speech taggers has explored stochastic tagging. While these taggers obtain high accuracy, linguistic information is captured indirectly, typically in tens of…
Eric BrillJun 2, 1994
Learn
Multiset-Valued Linear Index Grammars: Imposing Dominance Constraints on Derivations
This paper defines multiset-valued linear index grammar and unordered vector grammar with dominance links. The former models certain uses of multiset-valued feature structures in unification-based…
Owen RambowJun 2, 1994
Learn
Parsing Turkish with the Lexical Functional Grammar Formalism
This paper describes our work on parsing Turkish using the lexical-functional grammar formalism. This work represents the first significant effort for parsing Turkish. Our implementation is based on…
Zelal Gungordu, Kemal OflazerJun 2, 1994
Learn
Aligning a Parallel English-Chinese Corpus Statistically with Lexical Criteria
We describe our experience with automatic alignment of sentences in parallel English-Chinese texts. Our report concerns three related topics: (1) progress on the HKUST English-Chinese Parallel…
Dekai WuJun 2, 1994
Learn
Detecting and Correcting Speech Repairs
Interactive spoken dialog provides many new challenges for spoken language systems. One of the most critical is the prevalence of speech repairs. This paper presents an algorithm that detects and…
Peter Heeman, James AllenJun 1, 1994
Learn
Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Decomposable Models
Most probabilistic classifiers used for word-sense disambiguation have either been based on only one contextual feature or have used a model that is simply assumed to characterize the…
Rebecca Bruce, Janyce WiebeJun 1, 1994
Learn
Towards a Principled Representation of Discourse Plans
We argue that discourse plans must capture the intended causal and decompositional relations between communicative actions. We present a planning algorithm, DPOCL, that builds plan structures that…
R. Michael Young, Johanna D. Moore, Martha E. PollackJun 1, 1994
Learn
A Learning Approach to Natural Language Understanding
In this paper we propose a learning paradigm for the problem of understanding spoken language. The basis of the work is in a formalization of the understanding problem as a communication problem.…
Roberto Pieraccini, Esther LevinJun 1, 1994
Learn
Speech Dialogue with Facial Displays: Multimodal Human-Computer Conversation
Human face-to-face conversation is an ideal model for human-computer dialogue. One of the major features of face-to-face communication is its multiplicity of communication channels that act on…
Katashi Nagao, Akikazu TakeuchiJun 1, 1994
Learn
Intentions and Information in Discourse
This paper is about the flow of inference between communicative intentions, discourse structure and the domain during discourse processing. We augment a theory of discourse interpretation with a…
Nicholas Asher, Alex LascaridesJun 1, 1994
Learn
Extracting Noun Phrases from Large-Scale Texts: A Hybrid Approach and Its Automatic Evaluation
To acquire noun phrases from running texts is useful for many applications, such as word grouping,terminology indexing, etc. The reported literatures adopt pure probabilistic approach, or pure…
Kuang-hua Chen, Hsin-Hsi ChenJun 1, 1994
Learn
Dual-Coding Theory and Connectionist Lexical Selection
We introduce the bilingual dual-coding theory as a model for bilingual mental representation. Based on this model, lexical selection neural networks are implemented for a connectionist transfer…
Ye-Yi WangMay 31, 1994
Learn
← PreviousPage 34Next →