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ACL
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Using Textual Clues to Improve Metaphor Processing
In this paper, we propose a textual clue approach to help metaphor detection, in order to improve the semantic processing of this figure. The previous works in the domain studied ...
Stéphane Ferrari
ACL
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Noun-Phrase Analysis in Unrestricted Text for Information Retrieval
Information retrieval is an important application area of natural-language processing where one encounters the genuine challenge of processing large quantities of unrestricted nat...
David A. Evans, ChengXiang Zhai
ACL
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Minimizing Manual Annotation Cost in Supervised Training from Corpora
Corpus-based methods for natural language processing often use supervised training, requiring expensive manual annotation of training corpora. This paper investigates methods for ...
Sean P. Engelson, Ido Dagan
ACL
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient Normal-Form Parsing for Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Under categorial grammars that have powerful rules like composition, a simple n-word sentence can have exponentially many parses. Generating all parses is inefficient and obscures...
Jason Eisner
ACL
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Using Parsed Corpora for Structural Disambiguation in the TRAINS Domain
This paper describes a prototype disambiguation module, KANKEI, which was tested on two corpora of the TRAINS project. In ambiguous verb phrases of form V ... NP PP or V ... NP ad...
Mark G. Core
ACL
1996
13 years 6 months ago
A New Statistical Parser Based on Bigram Lexical Dependencies
This paper describes a new statistical parser which is based on probabilities of dependencies between head-words in the parse tree. Standard bigram probability estimation techniqu...
Michael Collins
ACL
1994
13 years 6 months ago
A Markov Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces
This paper shows how to formally characterize language learning in a finite parameter space as a Markov structure, hnportant new language learning results follow directly: explici...
Partha Niyogi, Robert C. Berwick
ACL
1996
13 years 6 months ago
Generating an LTAG out of a Principle-based Hierarchical Representation
Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars have proved useful for NLP. However, numerous redundancy problems face LTAGs developers, as highlighted by Vijay-Shanker and Schabes (92). We p...
Marie-Hélène Candito