In machine translation and man-machine dialogue, it is important to clarify referents of noun phrases. We present a method for determining the referents of noun phrases in Japanes...
Abstract. We present a knowledge-rich approach to Japanese coreference resolution. In Japanese, proper noun coreference and common noun coreference occupy a central position in cor...
One of the major problems when translating from Japanese into a European language such as German or English is to determine definiteness of noun phrases in order to choose the cor...
We present an unsupervised method for canonicalizing joshi (postpositions) in Japanese. Some postpositions in Japanese do not specify semantic roles explicitly as case markers do,...
Parsing a long sentence is very difficult, since long sentences often have conjunctions which result in ambiguities. If the conjunctive structures existing in a long sentence can ...