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ANLP
2000
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Using Semantic Preferences to Identify Verbal Participation in Role Switching Alternations
We propose a method for identifying diathesis alternations where a particular argument type is seen in slots which have different grammatical roles in the alternating forms. The m...
Diana McCarthy
ANLP
2000
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Modelling Grounding and Discourse Obligations Using Update Rules
Colin Matheson, Massimo Poesio, David R. Traum
ANLP
2000
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The Automatic Translation of Discourse Structures
We empirically show that there are significant differences between the discourse structure of Japanese texts and the discourse structure of their corresponding English translation...
Daniel Marcu, Lynn Carlson, Maki Watanabe
ANLP
2000
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Word Sense Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval
We have developed a word sense disambiguation algorithm, following Cheng and Wilensky (1997), to disambiguate among WordNet synsets. This algorithm is to be used in a cross-langua...
Xiaoyong Liu, Ted Diamond, Anne Diekema
ANLP
2000
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Predicting Automatic Speech Recognition Performance Using Prosodic Cues
In spoken dialogue systems, it is important for a system to know how likely a speech recognition hypothesis is to be correct, so it can reprompt for fresh input, or, in cases wher...
Diane J. Litman, Julia Hirschberg, Marc Swerts
ANLP
2000
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Unit Completion for a Computer-aided Translation Typing System
This work is in the context of TransType, a system that observes its user as he or she types a translation and repeatedly suggests completions for the text already entered. The us...
Philippe Langlais, George F. Foster, Guy Lapalme
ANLP
2000
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A Tool for Automated Revision of Grammars for NLP Systems
We present an algorithm and a tool for automatically revising grammars for natural language processing (NLP) systems to disallow specifically identified sentences or sets of sente...
Nanda Kambhatla, Wlodek Zadrozny
ANLP
2000
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Distilling dialogues - A method using natural dialogue corpora for dialogue systems development
We report on a method for utilising corpora collected in natural settings. It is based on distilling re-writing natural dialogues to elicit the type of dialogue that would occur i...
Arne Jönsson, Nils Dahlbäck
ANLP
2000
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Exploiting auxiliary distributions in stochastic unification-based grammars
This paper describes a method for estimating conditional probability distributions over the parses of "unification-based" grammars which can utilize auxiliary distributi...
Mark Johnson, Stefan Riezler
ANLP
2000
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The FrameNet tagset for frame-semantic and syntactic coding of predicate-argument structure
This paper presents the syntactic and semantic tags used to annotate predicate-argument structure in the Berkeley FrameNet Project. It briefly explains the theory of frame semanti...
Christopher Johnson, Charles J. Fillmore