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ACL
1998
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A Generative Lexicon Perspective for Adjectival Modification
This paper presents a semantic interpretation of adjectival modification in terms of the Generative Lexicon. It highlights the elements which can be borrowed from the GL and devel...
Patrick Saint-Dizier
ACL
1998
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A Descriptive Characterization of Tree-Adjoining Languages (Project Note)
Since the early Sixties and Seventies it has been known that the regular and context-free languages arc characterized by definability in the monadic second-order theory of certain...
James Rogers
ACL
1998
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Reference Resolution beyond Coreference: a Conceptual Frame and its Application
A model for reference use in communication is proposed, from a representationist point of view. Both the sender and the receiver of a message handle representations of their commo...
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Isabelle Robba, Gérar...
ACL
1998
13 years 10 months ago
From Information Structure to Intonation: A Phonological Interface for Concept-to-Speech
The pal)er describes an interface between generator and synthesizer of tile German language concept-to-speech system VieCtoS. It discusses phenomena in German intonation that depe...
Hannes Pirker, Georg Niklfeld, Johannes Matiasek, ...
ACL
1998
13 years 10 months ago
Building Accurate Semantic Taxonomies from Monolingual MRDs
This paper presents a method that conbines a set of unsupervised algorithms in order to accurately build large taxonomies from any machine-readable dictionary (MRD). Our aim is to...
German Rigau, Eneko Agirre
ACL
1998
13 years 10 months ago
MindNet: Acquiring and Structuring Semantic Information from Text
As a lexical knowledge base constructed automatically from the definitions and example sentences in two machine-readable dictionaries (MRDs), MindNet embodies several features tha...
Stephen D. Richardson, William B. Dolan, Lucy Vand...
ACL
1998
13 years 10 months ago
A Procedure for Multi-Class Discrimination and some Linguistic Applications
The paper describes a novel computational tool for multiple concept learning. Unlike previous approaches, whose major goal is prediction on unseen instances rather than the legibi...
Vladimir Pericliev, Raúl E. Valdés-P...