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ACL
1994
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Verb Semantics and Lexical Selection
This paper will focus on the semantic representation of verbs in computer systems and its impact on lexical selection problems in machine translation (MT). Two groups of English a...
Zhibiao Wu, Martha Stone Palmer
ACL
1994
13 years 5 months ago
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 disco...
Jeffrey C. Reynar
ACL
1994
13 years 5 months ago
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 multisetvalued feature structures in u...
Owen Rambow
ACL
1994
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Alignment in Parallel Corpora
This paper addresses the alignment issue in the framework of exploitation of large bimultilingual corpora for translation purposes. A generic alignment scheme is proposed that can...
Harris Papageorgiou, Lambros Cranias, Stelios Pipe...
ACL
1994
13 years 5 months ago
An Extended Theory of Head-Driven Parsing
We show that more head-driven parsing algorithms can he formulated than those occurring in the existing literature. These algorithms are inspired by a family of left-to-right pars...
Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta
ACL
1994
13 years 5 months ago
An Optimal Tabular Parsing Algorithm
In this paper we relate a number of parsing algorithms which have been developed in very different areas of parsing theory, and which include deterministic algorithms, tabular alg...
Mark-Jan Nederhof
ACL
1994
13 years 5 months ago
A Markov Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces
This paper shows how to formally characterize language learning in a finite parameter space as a Markov structure, hnportant new language learning results follow directly: explici...
Partha Niyogi, Robert C. Berwick
ACL
1994
13 years 5 months ago
A Psycholinguistically Motivated Parser for CCG
Considering the speed in which humans resolve syntactic ambiguity, and the overwhelming evidence that syntactic ambiguity is resolved through selection of the analysis whose inter...
Michael Niv