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COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Near-Synonymy and Lexical Choice
Philip Edmonds, Graeme Hirst
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Binding Machines
António Horta Branco
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Lexical Query Paraphrasing for Document Retrieval
We describe a mechanism for the generation of lexical paraphrases of queries posed to an Internet resource. These paraphrases are generated using WordNet and part-of-speech inform...
Ingrid Zukerman, Bhavani Raskutti
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Towards a Noise-Tolerant, Representation-Independent Mechanism for Argument Interpretation
We describe a mechanism for the interpretation of arguments, which can cope with noisy conditions in terms of wording, beliefs and argument structure. This is achieved through the...
Ingrid Zukerman, Sarah George
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Can Subcategorization Help a Statistical Dependency Parser?
Today there is a relatively large body of work on automatic acquisition of lexicosyntactical preferences (subcategorization) from corpora. Various techniques have been developed t...
Daniel Zeman
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
An Agent-based Approach to Chinese Named Entity Recognition
Chinese NE (Named Entity) recognition is a difficult problem because of the uncertainty in word segmentation and flexibility in language structure. This paper proposes the use of ...
Shiren Ye, Tat-Seng Chua, Jimin Liu
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
An Automatic Evaluation Method for Localization Oriented Lexicalised EBMT System
To help developing a localization oriented EBMT system, an automatic machine translation evaluation method is implemented which adopts edit distance, cosine correlation and Dice c...
Jianmin Yao, Ming Zhou, Tiejun Zhao, Hao Yu, Sheng...
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Generalized Names
We present an algorithm, Nomen, for learning generalized names in text. Examples of these are names of diseases and infectious agents, such as bacteria and viruses. These names ex...
Roman Yangarber, Winston Lin, Ralph Grishman