ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
As an application of NLP to computer-assisted language learning(CALL) , we propose a diagnostic processing of Japanese being able to detect errors and inappropriateness of sentenc...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
In this paper, we outline a theory of referential accessibility called Veins Theory (VT). We show how VT addresses the problem of "left satellites", currently a problem ...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
The main aim of this paper is to analyse the e ects of applying pronominal anaphora resolution to Question Answering QA systems. For this task a complete QA system has been implem...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
e, the system labels constituents with either abstract semantic roles such as AGENT or PATIENT, or more domain-specific semantic roles such as SPEAKER, MESSAGE, and TOPIC. The syst...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
We propose a distribution-based pruning of n-gram backoff language models. Instead of the conventional approach of pruning n-grams that are infrequent in training data, we prune n...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
I describe two methods for incorporating information about the relative positions of bilingual word pairs into a Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence translation model. The better o...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
We discuss the advantages of lexicalized tree-adjoining grammar as an alternative to lexicalized PCFG for statistical parsing, describingthe induction of a probabilistic LTAG mode...
ACL
2000
13 years 6 months ago
2000
Chinese input is one of the key challenges for Chinese PC users. This paper proposes a statistical approach to Pinyin-based Chinese input. This approach uses a trigram-based langu...