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ACL
1989
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Efficient Parsing for French
Parsing with categorial grammars often leads to problems such as proliferating lexical ambiguity, spurious parses and overgeneration. This paper presents a parser for French devel...
Claire Gardent, Gabriel G. Bès, Pierre-Fran...
ACL
1989
13 years 5 months ago
A General Computational Treatment of the Comparative
We present a general treatment of the comparative that is based on more basic linguistic elements so that the underlying system can be effectively utilized: in the syntactic analy...
Carol Friedman
ACL
1989
13 years 5 months ago
A Three-Valued Interpretation of Negation in Feature Structure Descriptions
Feature structures are informational elements that have been used in several linguistic theories and in computational systems for natural-language processing. A logicaJ calculus h...
Anuj Dawar, K. Vijay-Shanker
ACL
1989
13 years 5 months ago
Cooking Up Referring Expressions
This paper describes the referring expression generation mechanisms used in EPICURE, a computer program which produces natural language descriptions of cookery recipes. Major feat...
Robert Dale
ACL
1989
13 years 5 months ago
Discourse Entities in Janus
This paper addresses issues that arose in applying the model for discourse entity (DE) generation in B. Webber's work (1978, 1983) to an interactive multimodal interface. Her...
Damaris M. Ayuso
ACL
1989
13 years 5 months ago
The Structure of Shared Forests in Ambiguous Parsing
The Context-Free backbone of some natural language analyzers produces all possible CF parses as some kind of shared forest, from which a single tree is to be chosen by a disambigu...
Sylvie Billot, Bernard Lang