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ACL
1998
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Experiments with Learning Parsing Heuristics
Any large language processing software relies in its operation on heuristic decisions concerning the strategy of processing. These decisions are usually "hard-wired" int...
Sylvain Delisle, Sylvain Létourneau, Stan M...
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Investigating Regular Sense Extensions Based on Intersective Levin Classes
In this paper we specifically address questions of polysemy with respect to verbs, and how regular extensions of meaning can be achieved through the adjunction of particular synta...
Hoa Trang Dang, Karin Kipper, Martha Stone Palmer,...
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Semantic Tagging of Unknown Proper Names
Alessandro Cucchiarelli, Danilo Luzi, Paola Velard...
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Veins Theory: A Model of Global Discourse Cohesion and Coherence
In this paper, we propose a generalization of Centering Theory (CT) (Grosz, Joshi, Weinstein 1995) called Veins Theory (VT), which extends the applicability of centering rules fro...
Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide, Laurent Romary
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Alignment of Multiple Languages for Historical Comparison
An essential step in comparative reconstruction is to align corresponding phonological segments in the words being compared. To do this, one must search among huge numbers of pote...
Michael A. Covington
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
A Tabular Interpretation of a Class of 2-Stack Automata
The paper presents a tabular interpretation for a kind of 2-Stack Automata. These automata may be used to describe various parsing strategies, ranging from purely top-down to pure...
Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie, Miguel A. Alonso
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Dialogue Management in Vector-Based Call Routing
This paper describes a domain independent, automatically trained call router which directs customer calls based on their response to an open-ended "How may I direct your call...
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Bob Carpenter
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
PAT-Trees with the Deletion Function as the Learning Device for Linguistic Patterns
In this study, a learning device based on the PATtree data structures was developed. The original PAT-trees were enhanced with the deletion function to emulate human learning comp...
Keh-Jiann Chen, Wen Tsuei, Lee-Feng Chien
ACL
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Proper Name Translation in Cross-Language Information Retrieval
Recently, language barrier becomes the major problem for people to search, retrieve, and understand WWW documents in different languages. This paper deals with query translation i...
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Sheng-Jie Huang, Yung-Wei Ding, Shi...