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ACL
1996
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Efficient Normal-Form Parsing for Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Under categorial grammars that have powerful rules like composition, a simple n-word sentence can have exponentially many parses. Generating all parses is inefficient and obscures...
Jason Eisner
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Using Parsed Corpora for Structural Disambiguation in the TRAINS Domain
This paper describes a prototype disambiguation module, KANKEI, which was tested on two corpora of the TRAINS project. In ambiguous verb phrases of form V ... NP PP or V ... NP ad...
Mark G. Core
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
A New Statistical Parser Based on Bigram Lexical Dependencies
This paper describes a new statistical parser which is based on probabilities of dependencies between head-words in the parse tree. Standard bigram probability estimation techniqu...
Michael Collins
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Generating an LTAG out of a Principle-based Hierarchical Representation
Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars have proved useful for NLP. However, numerous redundancy problems face LTAGs developers, as highlighted by Vijay-Shanker and Schabes (92). We p...
Marie-Hélène Candito
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Another Facet of LIG Parsing
In this paper 1 we present a new parsing algorithm for linear indexed grammars (LIGs) in the same spirit as the one described in (Vijay-Shanker and Weir, 1993) for tree adjoining ...
Pierre Boullier
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
The Selection of the Most Probable Dependency Structure in Japanese Using Mutual Information
We use a statistical method to select the most probable structure or parse for a given sentence. It takes as input the dependency structures generated for the sentence by a depend...
Eduardo de Paiva Alves
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
The Rhythm of Lexical Stress in Prose
\Prose rhythm" is a widely observed but scarcely quanti ed phenomenon. We describe an information-theoretic model for measuring the regularity of lexical stress in English te...
Doug Beeferman
ACL
1996
13 years 5 months ago
Head Automata and Bilingual Tiling: Translation with Minimal Representations
We present a language model consisting of a collection of costed bidirectional finite state automata associated with the head words of phrases. The model is suitable for increment...
Hiyan Alshawi