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ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Time Mapping with Hypergraphs
Word graphs are able to represent a large number of different utterance hypotheses in a very compact manner. However, usually they contain a huge amount of redundancy in terms of ...
Jan W. Amtrup, Volker Weber
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Tense and Connective Constraints on the Expression of Causality
Starting from descriptions of French connectives (in particular "donc"---therefore), on the one hand, and aspectual properties of French tenses pass4 simple and imparfai...
Pascal Amsili, Corinne Rossari
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Consonant Spreading in Arabic Stems
This paper examines the phenomenon of consonant spreading in Arabic stems. Each spreading involves a local surface copying of an underlying consonant, and, in certain phonological...
Kenneth R. Beesley
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
An Efficient Kernel for Multilingual Generation in Speech-to-Speech Dialogue Translation
We present core aspects of a fully implemented generation component in a multilingual speechto-speech dialogue translation system. Its design was particularly influenced by the ne...
Tilman Becker, Wolfgang Finkler, Anne Kilger, Pete...
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of Hierarchical Transduction Models for Machine Translation
We describe a method for the fully automatic learning of hierarchical finite state translation models. The input to the method is transcribed speech utterances and their correspon...
Hiyan Alshawi, Srinivas Bangalore, Shona Douglas
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Evaluating a Focus-Based Approach to Anaphora Resolution
We present an approach to anaphora resolution based on a focusing algorithm, and implemented within an existing MUC (Message Understanding Conference) Information Extraction syste...
Saliha Azzam, Kevin Humphreys, Robert J. Gaizauska...
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
A Flexible Example-Based Parser Based on the SSTC
In this paper we sketch an approach for Natural Language parsing. Our approach is an example-based approach, which relies mainly on examples that already parsed to their represent...
Mosleh Hmoud Al-Adhaileh, Tang Enya Kong
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
A Simple Hybrid Aligner for Generating Lexical Correspondences in Parallel Texts
We present an algorithm for bilingual word alignment that extends previous work by treating multi-word candidates on a par with single words, and combining some simple assumptions...
Lars Ahrenberg, Mikael Andersson, Magnus Merkel