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ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Reliable Measures for Aligning Japanese-English News Articles and Sentences
We have aligned Japanese and English news articles and sentences to make a large parallel corpus. We first used a method based on cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) to a...
Masao Utiyama, Hitoshi Isahara
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Morphological Analysis of a Large Spontaneous Speech Corpus in Japanese
This paper describes two methods for detecting word segments and their morphological information in a Japanese spontaneous speech corpus, and describes how to tag a large spontane...
Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Chikashi Nobata, Atsushi Yamada...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph Kernel: Methods for Structured Natural Language Data
This paper proposes the “Hierarchical Directed Acyclic Graph (HDAG) Kernel” for structured natural language data. The HDAG Kernel directly accepts several levels of both chunk...
Jun Suzuki, Tsutomu Hirao, Yutaka Sasaki, Eisaku M...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Using Predicate-Argument Structures for Information Extraction
In this paper we present a novel, customizable IE paradigm that takes advantage of predicate-argument structures. We also introduce a new way of automatically identifying predicat...
Mihai Surdeanu, Sanda M. Harabagiu, John Williams,...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
An Improved Extraction Pattern Representation Model for Automatic IE Pattern Acquisition
Several approaches have been described for the automatic unsupervised acquisition of patterns for information extraction. Each approach is based on a particular model for the patt...
Kiyoshi Sudo, Satoshi Sekine, Ralph Grishman
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Machine Learning Approach to Pronoun Resolution in Spoken Dialogue
We apply a decision tree based approach to pronoun resolution in spoken dialogue. Our system deals with pronouns with NPand non-NP-antecedents. We present a set of features design...
Michael Strube, Christoph Müller
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Synonymous Collocation Extraction Using Translation Information
Automatically acquiring synonymous collocation pairs such as <turn on, OBJ, light> and <switch on, OBJ, light> from corpora is a challenging task. For this task, we ca...
Hua Wu, Ming Zhou
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Combining Deep and Shallow Approaches in Parsing German
The paper describes two parsing schemes: a shallow approach based on machine learning and a cascaded finite-state parser with a hand-crafted grammar. It discusses several ways to...
Michael Schiehlen
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A SNoW Based Supertagger with Application to NP Chunking
Supertagging is the tagging process of assigning the correct elementary tree of LTAG, or the correct supertag, to each
Libin Shen, Aravind K. Joshi
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition
An investment of effort over the last two years has begun to produce a wealth of data concerning computational psycholinguistic models of syntax acquisition. The data is generated...
William Gregory Sakas