ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
This paper presents a corpus-based algorithm capable of inducing inflectional morphological analyses of both regular and highly irregular forms (such as broughtbring) from distrib...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
This paper presents a novel statistical model for automatic identification of English baseNP. It uses two steps: the Nbest Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagging and baseNP identification g...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
Building a bilingual dictionary for transfer in a machine translation system is conventionally done by hand and is very time-consuming. In order to overcome this bottleneck, we pr...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
This paper presents a restricted version of Set-Local Multi-Component TAGs Weir, 1988 which retains the strong generative capacity of Tree-Local MultiComponent TAG i.e. produces t...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
Spoken dialogue managers have benefited from using stochastic planners such as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). However, so far, MDPs do not handle well noisy and ambiguous speec...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
We present a clustering algorithm for Arabic words sharing the same root. Root based clusters can substitute dictionaries in indexing for IR. Modifying Adamson and Boreham (1974),...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
In this paper, a computational approach for resolving zero-pronouns in Spanish texts is proposed. Our approach has been evaluated with partial parsing of the text and the results ...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
The definitions of the basic concepts, rules, and constraints of centering theory involve underspecified notions such as `previous utterance', `realization', and `rankin...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
We present a new approach to stochastic modeling of constraintbased grammars that is based on loglinear models and uses EM for estimation from unannotated data. The techniques are...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
This paper describes a language independent method for alignment of parallel texts that makes use of homograph tokens for each pair of languages. In order to filter out tokens tha...