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COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Modular MT with a Learned Bilingual Dictionary: Rapid Deployment of a New Language Pair
The MT system described in this paper combines hand-built analysis and generation components with automatically learned example-based transfer patterns. Up to now, the transfer co...
Jessie Pinkham, Martine Smets
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
SOAT: A Semi-Automatic Domain Ontology Acquisition Tool from Chinese Corpus
In this paper, we focus on the domain ontology acquisition from Chinese corpus by extracting rules designed for Chinese phrases. These rules are noun sequences with part-of-speech...
Shih-Hung Wu, Wen-Lian Hsu
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
The LinGO Redwoods Treebank: Motivation and Preliminary Applications
The LinGO Redwoods initiative is a seed activity in the design and development of a new type of treebank. While several medium- to large-scale treebanks exist for English (and for...
Stephan Oepen, Kristina Toutanova, Stuart M. Shieb...
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
A Linguistic Discovery Program that Verbalizes its Discoveries
We describe a discovery program, called UNIVAUTO (UNIVersals AUthoringTOol), whose domain of application is the study of language universals, a classic trend in contemporary lingu...
Vladimir Pericliev
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Investigating the Relationship between Word Segmentation Performance and Retrieval Performance in Chinese IR
It is commonly believed that word segmentation accuracy is monotonically related to retrieval performance in Chinese information retrieval. In this paper we show that, for Chinese...
Fuchun Peng, Xiangji Huang, Dale Schuurmans, Nick ...
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Taxonomy Learning - Factoring the Structure of a Taxonomy into a Semantic Classification Decision
The paper examines different possibilities to take advantage of the taxonomic organization of a thesaurus to improve the accuracy of classifying new words into its classes. The re...
Viktor Pekar, Steffen Staab
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
An Indexing Scheme for Typed Feature Structures
This paper describes an indexing substrate for typed feature structures (ISTFS), which is an efficient retrieval engine for typed feature structures. Given a set of typed feature ...
Takashi Ninomiya, Takaki Makino, Jun-ichi Tsujii
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Lenient Default Unification for Robust Processing within Unification Based Grammar Formalisms
This paper describes new default unification, lenient default unification. It works efficiently, and gives more informative results because it maximizes the amount of information ...
Takashi Ninomiya, Yusuke Miyao, Jun-ichi Tsujii
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
An English-Korean Transliteration Model Using Pronunciation and Contextual Rules
There is increasing concern about English-Korean (E-K) transliteration recently. In the previous works, direct converting methods from English alphabets to Korean alphabets were a...
Jong-Hoon Oh, Key-Sun Choi
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Topic Detection Based on Dialogue History
In this paper, we propose a topic detection method using a dialogue history for selecting a scene in the automatic interpretation system (Ikeda et al., 2002). The method uses a k-...
Takayuki Nakata, Shinichi Ando, Akitoshi Okumura