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ACL
1994
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Generating Precondition Expressions in Instructional Text
This study employs a knowledge intensive corpus analysis to identify the elements of the communicative context which can be used to determine the appropriate lexical and grammatic...
Keith Vander Linden
ACL
1996
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Resolving Anaphors in Embedded Sentences
We propose an Mgorithm to resolve anaphors, tackling mainly the problem of intrasentential antecedents. We base our methodology on the fact that such antecedents are likely to occ...
Saliha Azzam
ACL
1994
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Graded Unification: A Framework for Interactive Processing
An extension to classical unification, called graded unification is presented. It is capable of combining contradictory information. An interactive processing paradigm and parser ...
Albert Kim
ACL
1994
13 years 7 months ago
Common Topics and Coherent Situations: Interpreting Ellipsis in the Context of Discourse Inference
It is claimed that a variety of facts concerning ellipsis, event reference, and interclausal coherence can be explained by two features of the linguistic form in question: (1) whe...
Andrew Kehler
ACL
1994
13 years 7 months ago
Optimizing the Computational Lexicalization of Large Grammars
The computational lexicalization of a grammar is the optimization of the links between lexicalized rules and lexical items in order to improve the quality of the bottom-up filteri...
Christian Jacquemin
ACL
1994
13 years 7 months ago
Multi-Paragraph Segmentation of Expository Text
This paper describes TextTiling,an algorithmfor partitioning expository texts into coherent multi-paragraph discourse units which re ect the subtopic structure of the texts. The a...
Marti A. Hearst
ACL
1994
13 years 7 months ago
A Hybrid Reasoning Model for Indirect Answers
This paper presents our implemented computational model for interpreting and generating indirect answers to Yes-No questions. Its main features are 1) a discourse-plan-based appro...
Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry
ACL
1994
13 years 7 months ago
Priority Union and Generalization in Discourse Grammars
We describe an implementation in Carpenter's typed feature formalism, ALE, of a discourse grammar of the kind proposed by Scha, Polanyi, et al. We examine their method for re...
Claire Grover, Chris Brew, Suresh Manandhar, Marc ...
ACL
1994
13 years 7 months ago
Acquiring Receptive Morphology: A Connectionist Model
This paper describes a modular connectionist model of the acquisition of receptive inflectional morphology. The model takes inputs in the form of phones one at a time and outputs ...
Michael Gasser