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ACL
1989
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Parsing as Natural Deduction
The logic behind parsers for categorial grammars can be formalized in several different ways. Lambek Calculus (LC) constitutes an example for a natural deduction 1 style parsing m...
Esther König
ACL
1989
13 years 6 months ago
How to Cover a Grammar
A novel formalism is presented for Earley-like parsers. It accommodates the simulation of non-deterministic pushdown automata. In particular, the theory is applied to non-determin...
René Leermakers
ACL
1989
13 years 6 months ago
A Computational Mechanism for Pronominal Reference
the syntactically impossible antecedents. This latter This paper describes an implemented mechanism for handling bound anaphora, disjoint reference, and pronominal reference. The a...
Robert Ingria, David Stallard
ACL
1989
13 years 6 months ago
Two Constraints on Speech Act Ambiguity
Existing plan-based theories of speech act interpretation do not account for the conventional aspect of speech acts. We use patterns of linguistic features (e.g. mood, verb form, ...
Elizabeth A. Hinkelman, James F. Allen
ACL
1989
13 years 6 months ago
Acquiring Disambiguation Rules from Text
An effective procedure for automatically acquiring a new set of disambiguation rules for an existing deterministic parser on the basis of tagged text is presented. Performance of ...
Donald Hindle
ACL
1989
13 years 6 months ago
Efficient Parsing for French
Parsing with categorial grammars often leads to problems such as proliferating lexical ambiguity, spurious parses and overgeneration. This paper presents a parser for French devel...
Claire Gardent, Gabriel G. Bès, Pierre-Fran...
ACL
1989
13 years 6 months ago
A General Computational Treatment of the Comparative
We present a general treatment of the comparative that is based on more basic linguistic elements so that the underlying system can be effectively utilized: in the syntactic analy...
Carol Friedman
ACL
1989
13 years 6 months ago
A Three-Valued Interpretation of Negation in Feature Structure Descriptions
Feature structures are informational elements that have been used in several linguistic theories and in computational systems for natural-language processing. A logicaJ calculus h...
Anuj Dawar, K. Vijay-Shanker