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CORR
1998
Springer
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Letter to Sound Rules for Accented Lexicon Compression
This paper presents trainable methods for generating letter to sound rules from a given lexicon for use in pronouncing out-ofvocabulary words and as a method for lexicon compressi...
V. Pagel, Kevin Lenzo, Alan W. Black
CORR
1998
Springer
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How to define a context-free backbone for DGs: Implementing a DG in the LFG formalism
This paper presents a multidimensional Dependency Grammar (DG), which decouples the dependency tree from word order, such that surface ordering is not determined by traversing the...
Norbert Bröker
CORR
1998
Springer
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Indexing with WordNet synsets can improve Text Retrieval
The classical, vector space model for text retrieval is shown to give better results (up to 29% better in our experiments) if WordNet synsets are chosen as the indexing space, ins...
Julio Gonzalo, Felisa Verdejo, Irina Chugur, Juan ...
CORR
1998
Springer
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Statistical Models for Unsupervised Prepositional Phrase Attachment
We present several unsupervised statistical models for the prepositional phrase attachment task that approach the accuracy of the best supervised methods for this task. Our unsupe...
Adwait Ratnaparkhi
CORR
1998
Springer
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A Linguistically Interpreted Corpus of German Newspaper Text
In this paper, we report on the development of an annotation scheme an annotation tools for unrestricted German text. Our representation format is based on argument structure, but...
Wojciech Skut, Thorsten Brants, Brigitte Krenn, Ha...
CORR
1998
Springer
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A Maximum-Entropy Partial Parser for Unrestricted Text
This paper describes a partial parser that assigns syntactic structures to sequences of partof-speech tags. The program uses the maximum entropy parameter estimation method, which...
Wojciech Skut, Thorsten Brants
CORR
1998
Springer
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Word Clustering and Disambiguation Based on Co-occurrence Data
We address the problem of clustering words (or constructing a thesaurus) based on co-occurrence data, and using the acquired word classes to improve the accuracy of syntactic disa...
Hang Li, Naoki Abe
CORR
1998
Springer
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The Role of Verbs in Document Analysis
Judith Klavans, Min-Yen Kan
CORR
1998
Springer
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Textual Economy through Close Coupling of Syntax and Semantics
We focus on the productionof efficient descriptionsof objects, actions and events. We define a type of efficiency, textualeconomy, thatexploitsthe hearer’s recognitionof infe...
Matthew Stone, Bonnie L. Webber