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ACL
1997
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Compiling Regular Formalisms with Rule Features into Finite-State Automata
This paper presents an algorithm for the compilation of regular formalisms with rule features into finite-state automata. Rule features are incorporated into the right context of ...
George Anton Kiraz
ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Document Classification Using a Finite Mixture Model
We propose a new method of classifying documents into categories. We define for each category a finite mixture model based on soft clustering of words. We treat the problem of cla...
Hang Li, Kenji Yamanishi
ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Detection of Text Genre
As the text databases available to users become larger and more heterogeneous, genre becomes increasingly important for computational linguistics as a complement to topical and st...
Brett Kessler, Geoffrey Nunberg, Hinrich Schü...
ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Finite State Transducers Approximating Hidden Markov Models
This paper describes the conversion of a Hidden Markov Model into a sequential transducer that closely approximates the behavior of the stochastic model. This transformation is es...
André Kempe
ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Homonymy and Polysemy in Information Retrieval
This paper discusses research on distinguishing word meanings in the context of information retrieval systems. We conducted experiments with three sources of evidence for making t...
Robert Krovetz
ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Expansion of Multi-Word Terms for Indexing and Retrieval Using Morphology and Syntax
A system for the automatic production of
Christian Jacquemin, Judith Klavans, Evelyne Tzouk...
ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
An Algorithm for Generating Referential Descriptions with Flexible Interfaces
Most algorithms dedicated to the generation of referential descriptions widely suffer from a fundamental problem: they make too strong assumptions about adjacent processing compon...
Helmut Horacek
ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
A Theory of Parallelism and the Case of VP Ellipsis
We provide a general account of parallelism in discourse, and apply it to the special case of resolving possible readings for instances of VP ellipsis. We show how several problem...
Jerry R. Hobbs, Andrew Kehler
ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Parse and Translation Decisions from Examples with Rich Context
We present a knowledge and context-based system for parsing and translating natural language and evaluate it on sentences from the Wall Street Journal. Applying machine learning t...
Ulf Hermjakob, Raymond J. Mooney
ACL
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Maximal Incrementality in Linear Categorial Deduction
Recent work has seen the emergence of a common framework for parsing categorial grammar (CG) formalisms that fall within the 'type-logical' tradition (such as the Lambek...
Mark Hepple