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ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Translating a Unification Grammar with Disjunctions into Logical Constraints
This paper proposes a method for generating a logicalconstraint-based internal representation from a unification grammar formalism with disjunctive information. Unification gramma...
Mikio Nakano, Akira Shimazu
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Improving Statistical Natural Language Translation with Categories and Rules
This paper describes an all level approach on statistical natural language translation (SNLT). Without any predefined knowledge the system learns a statistical translation lexicon...
Franz Josef Och, Hans Weber
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Hypertext Authoring for Linking Relevant Segments of Related Instruction Manuals
Recently manuals of industrial products become large and often consist of separated volumes. In reading such individual but related manuals, we must consider the relation among se...
Hiroshi Nakagawa, Tatsunori Mori, Nobuyuki Omori, ...
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Integration of Large-Scale Linguistic Resources in a Natural Language Understanding System
Knowledge acquisition is a serious bottleneck for natural language understanding systems. For this reason, large-scale linguistic resources have been compiled and made available b...
Lewis M. Norton, Deborah A. Dahl, Li Li, Katharine...
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Japanese OCR Error Correction using Character Shape Similarity and Statistical Language Model
We present a novel OCR error correction method for languages without word delimiters that have a large character set, such as Japanese and Chinese. It consists of a statistical OC...
Masaaki Nagata
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Automatic Text Summarization Based on the Global Document Annotation
The GDA (Global Document Annotation) project proposes a tag set which allows machines to automatically infer the underlying semantic/pragmatic structure of documents. Its objectiv...
Katashi Nagao, Kôiti Hasida
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
An Estimate of Referent of Noun Phrases in Japanese Sentences
In machine translation and man-machine dialogue, it is important to clarify referents of noun phrases. We present a method for determining the referents of noun phrases in Japanes...
Masaki Murata, Makoto Nagao
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Dealing with Distinguishing Descriptions in a Guided Composition System
: The goal of this paper is to provide computable account for some definite descriptions. To this end, we define in terms of inclusion the notion of distinguishing description and ...
Pascal Mouret, Monique Rolbert
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
Universal Grammar and Lexis for Quick Ramp-Up of MT
This paper introduces Boas, a semi-automatic knowledge elicitation system that guides a team of two people through the process of developing the static knowledge sources for a mod...
Sergei Nirenburg, Victor Raskin
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
A Stochastic Language Model using Dependency and Its Improvement by Word Clustering
In this paper, we present a stochastic language model for Japanese using dependency. The prediction unit in thismodel isallattributeof "bunsetsu". This isrepresented by ...
Shinsuke Mori, Makoto Nagao