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ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
An Application of WordNet to Prepositional Attachment
This paper presents a method for word sense disambiguation and coherence understanding of prepositional relations. The method relies on information provided by
Sanda M. Harabagiu
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Parsing Algorithms and Metrics
Many different metrics exist for evaluating parsing results, including Viterbi, Crossing Brackets Rate, Zero Crossing Brackets Rate, and several others. However, most parsing algo...
Joshua Goodman
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Combining Trigram-based and Feature-based Methods for Context-Sensitive Spelling Correction
This paper addresses the problem of correcting spelling errors that result in valid, though unintended words (such as peace and piece, or quiet and quite) and also the problem of ...
Andrew R. Golding, Yves Schabes
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Higher-Order Coloured Unification and Natural Language Semantics
In this paper, we show that Higher-Order Coloured Unification - a form of unification developed for automated theorem proving - provides a general theory for modeling the interfac...
Claire Gardent, Michael Kohlhase
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
A Synopsis of Learning to Recognize Names Across Languages
The development of natural language processing (NLP) systems that perform machine translation (MT) and information retrieval (IR) has highlighted the need for the automatic recogn...
Anthony F. Gallippi
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
On Reversing the Generation Process in Optimality Theory
Optimality Theory, a constraint-based phonology and morphology paradigm, has allowed linguists to make elegant analyses of many phenomena, including infixation and reduplication. ...
J. Eric Fosler
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Using Textual Clues to Improve Metaphor Processing
In this paper, we propose a textual clue approach to help metaphor detection, in order to improve the semantic processing of this figure. The previous works in the domain studied ...
Stéphane Ferrari
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Noun-Phrase Analysis in Unrestricted Text for Information Retrieval
Information retrieval is an important application area of natural-language processing where one encounters the genuine challenge of processing large quantities of unrestricted nat...
David A. Evans, ChengXiang Zhai
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Minimizing Manual Annotation Cost in Supervised Training from Corpora
Corpus-based methods for natural language processing often use supervised training, requiring expensive manual annotation of training corpora. This paper investigates methods for ...
Sean P. Engelson, Ido Dagan