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ACL
1998
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One Tokenization per Source
We report in this paper the observation of one tokenization per source. That is, the same critical fragment in different sentences from the same source almost always realize one a...
Jin Guo
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
An Empirical Evaluation of Probabilistic Lexicalized Tree Insertion Grammars
We present an empirical study of the applicability of Probabilistic Lexicalized Tree Insertion Grammars (PLTIG), a lexicalized counterpart to Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars (...
Rebecca Hwa
ACL
1998
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Growing Semantic Grammars
A critical path in the development of natural language understanding NLU modules lies in the di culty of de ning a mapping from words to semantics: Usually it takes in the order o...
Marsal Gavaldà, Alex Waibel
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Flow Network Models for Word Alignment and Terminology Extraction from Bilingual Corpora
This paper presents a new model for word alignments between parallel sentences, which allows one to accurately estimate different parameters, in a computationally efficient way. A...
Éric Gaussier
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Semantic-Head Based Resolution of Scopal Ambiguities
We introduce an algorithm for scope resolution in underspecified semantic representations. Scope preferences are suggested on the basis of semantic argument structure. The major n...
Björn Gambäck, Johan Bos
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Splitting Long or Ill-formed Input for Robust Spoken-language Translation
This paper proposes an input-splitting method for translating spoken-language which includes many long or ill-formed expressions. The proposed method splits input into well-balanc...
Osamu Furuse, Setsuo Yamada, Kazuhide Yamamoto
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
A Layered Approach to NLP-Based Information Retrieval
A layered approach to information retrieval permits the inclusion of multiple search engines as well as multiple databases, with a natural language layer to convert English querie...
Sharon Flank
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Anaphor Resolution in Unrestricted Texts with Partial Parsing
In this paper we deal with several kinds of anaphora in unrestricted texts. These kinds of anaphora are pronominal references, surfacecount anaphora and one-anaphora. In order to ...
Antonio Ferrández, Manuel Palomar, Lidia Mo...
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Combining Stochastic and Rule-Based Methods for Disambiguation in Agglutinative Languages
In this paper we present the results of the combination of stochastic and rule-based disambiguation methods applied to Basque languagel. The methods we have used in disambiguation...
Nerea Ezeiza, Iñaki Alegria, Jose Maria Arr...