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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
13 years 6 months ago
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
13 years 6 months ago
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 6 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 6 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 6 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 6 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...