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,...
This paper classifies distinctive phenomena occurring in Japanese spontaneous speech, and proposes a grammar and processing techniques for handling them. Parsers using a grammar f...
This paper discusses findings of a frame-based contrastive text analysis, using the large-scale and precise descriptions of semantic frames provided by the FrameNet project (Baker...
This paper proposes a method to resolve the reference of deictic Japanese zero pronouns which can be implemented in a practical machine translation system. This method focuses on ...
A deterministic finite state transducer is a fast device for analyzing strings. It takes O(n) time to analyze a string of length n. In this paper, an application of this technique...