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ACL
1996
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Evaluating the Portability of Revision Rules for Incremental Summary Generation
This paper presents a quantitative evaluation of the portability to the stock market domain of the revision rule hierarchy used by the system STREAKto incrementally generate newsw...
Jacques Robin
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Fast Parsing Using Pruning and Grammar Specialization
We show how a general grammar may be automatically adapted for fast parsing of utterances from a specific domain by means of constituent pruning and grammar specialization based o...
Manny Rayner, David M. Carter
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources to Disambiguate Word Sense: An Exemplar-Based Approach
In this paper, we present a new approach for word sense disambiguation (WSD) using an exemplar-based learning algorithm. This approach integrates a diverse set of knowledge source...
Hwee Tou Ng, Hian Beng Lee
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
An Efficient Compiler for Weighted Rewrite Rules
Context-dependent rewrite rules are used in many areas of natural language and speech processing. Work in computational phonology has demonstrated that, given certain conditions, ...
Mehryar Mohri, Richard Sproat
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Magic for Filter Optimization in Dynamic Bottom-up Processing
Off-line compilation of logic grammars using Magic allows an incorporation of filtering into the logic underlying the grammar. The explicit definite clause characterization of fil...
Guido Minnen
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Linguistic Structure as Composition and Perturbation
This paper discusses the problem of learning language from unprocessed text and speech signals, concentrating on the problem of learning a lexicon. In particular, it argues for a ...
Carl de Marcken
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
A Fully Statistical Approach to Natural Language Interfaces
We present a natural language interface system which is based entirely on trained statistical models. The system consists of three stages of processing: parsing, semantic interpre...
Scott Miller, David Stallard, Robert J. Bobrow, Ri...
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Word-Category Guessing Rules
Words unknown to the lexicon present a substantial problem to part-of-speech tagging. In this paper we present a technique for fully unsupervised statistical acquisition of rules ...
Andrei Mikheev
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Coordination as a Direct Process
Augusta Mela, Christophe Fouqueré