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ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Mapping Lexical Entries in a Verbs Database to WordNet Senses
This paper describes automatic techniques for mapping 9611 entries in a database of English verbs to WordNet senses. The verbs were initially grouped into 491 classes based on syn...
Rebecca Green, Lisa Pearl, Bonnie J. Dorr, Philip ...
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Generation of VP Ellipsis: A Corpus-Based Approach
We present conditions under which verb phrases are elided based on a corpus of positive and negative examples. Factor that affect verb phrase ellipsis include: the distance betwee...
Daniel Hardt, Owen Rambow
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
The Role of Lexico-Semantic Feedback in Open-Domain Textual Question-Answering
This paper presents an open-domain textual Question-Answering system that uses several feedback loops to enhance its performance. These feedback loops combine in a new way statist...
Sanda M. Harabagiu, Dan I. Moldovan, Marius Pasca,...
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Topic-focus and Salience
Eva Hajicová, Petr Sgall
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Serial Combination of Rules and Statistics: A Case Study in Czech Tagging
A hybrid system is described which combines the strength of manual rulewriting and statistical learning, obtaining results superior to both methods if applied separately. The comb...
Jan Hajic, Pavel Krbec, Pavel Kveton, Karel Oliva,...
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Resolving Ellipsis in Clarification
We offer a computational analysis of the resolution of ellipsis in certain cases of dialogue clarification. We show that this goes beyond standard techniques used in anaphora and ...
Jonathan Ginzburg, Robin Cooper
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation
A good decoding algorithm is critical to the success of any statistical machine translation system. The decoder's job is to find the translation that is most likely according...
Ulrich Germann, Michael Jahr, Kevin Knight, Daniel...
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Word Order in German: A Formal Dependency Grammar Using a Topological Hierarchy
This paper proposes a description of German word order including phenomena considered as complex, such as scrambling, (partial) VP fronting and verbal pied piping. Our description...
Kim Gerdes, Sylvain Kahane
ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
XML-Based Data Preparation for Robust Deep Parsing
We describe the use of XML tokenisation, tagging and mark-up tools to prepare a corpus for parsing. Our techniques are generally applicable but here on parsing Medline abstracts w...
Claire Grover, Alex Lascarides