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ACL
1989
13 years 5 months ago
The Lexical Semantics of Comparative Expressions in a Multi-Level Semantic Processor
Comparative expressions (CEs) such as "bigger than" and "more oranges than" are highly ambiguous, and their meaning is context dependent. Thus, they pose probl...
Duane E. Olawsky
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Semantic Discourse Segmentation and Labeling for Route Instructions
In order to build a simulated robot that accepts instructions in unconstrained natural language, a corpus of 427 route instructions was collected from human subjects in the office...
Nobuyuki Shimizu
ANLP
1992
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13 years 5 months ago
The ACQUILEX LKB: representation issues in semi-automatic acquisition of large lexicons
We describe the lexical knowledge base system (LKB) which has been designed and implemented as part of the ACQUILEX project1 to allow the representation of multilinguM syntactic a...
Ann A. Copestake
ECML
2003
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Leveraging Lexical Semantics to Infer Context-Free Grammars
Context-free grammars cannot be identified in the limit from positive examples (Gold, 1967), yet natural language grammars are more powerful than context-free grammars and humans ...
Tim Oates, Tom Armstrong, Justin Harris, Mark Nejm...
MLCW
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
An Inference Model for Semantic Entailment in Natural Language
Semantic entailment is the problem of determining if the meaning of a given sentence entails that of another. This is a fundamental problem in natural language understanding that ...
Rodrigo de Salvo Braz, Roxana Girju, Vasin Punyaka...