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CORR
2002
Springer
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Question answering: from partitions to Prolog
Abstract. We implement Groenendijk and Stokhof's partition semantics of questions in a simple question answering algorithm. The algorithm is sound, complete, and based on tabl...
Balder ten Cate, Chung-chieh Shan
CORR
2002
Springer
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The partition semantics of questions, syntactically
Groenendijk and Stokhof (1984, 1996; Groenendijk 1999) provide a logically attractive theory of the semantics of natural language questions, commonly referred to as the partition t...
Chung-chieh Shan, Balder ten Cate
CORR
2002
Springer
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Rerendering Semantic Ontologies: Automatic Extensions to UMLS through Corpus Analytics
In this paper, we discuss the utility and deficiencies of existing ontology resources for a number of language processing applications. We describe a technique for increasing the ...
James Pustejovsky, Anna Rumshisky, José M. ...
CORR
2002
Springer
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Cooperation between Pronoun and Reference Resolution for Unrestricted Texts
Anaphora resolution is envisaged in this paper as part of the reference resolution process. A general open architecture is proposed, which can be particularized and configured in ...
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Isabelle Robba
CORR
2002
Springer
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A continuation semantics of interrogatives that accounts for Baker's ambiguity
Wh-phrases in English have two important properties: first, they can appear both raised and in-situ; second, while in-situ wh-phrases can take semantic scope beyond the immediately...
Chung-chieh Shan
CORR
2002
Springer
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A variable-free dynamic semantics
Chung-chieh Shan
CORR
2002
Springer
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Synthesis of Low-Power Digital Circuits Derived from Binary Decision Diagrams
-- This paper introduces a novel method for synthesizing digital circuits derived from Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) that can yield to reduction in power dissipation. The power r...
Denis V. Popel
CORR
2002
Springer
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Using eigenvectors of the bigram graph to infer morpheme identity
This paper describes the results of some experiments exploring statistical methods to infer syntactic categories from a raw corpus in an unsupervised fashion. It shares certain po...
Mikhail Belkin, John A. Goldsmith
CORR
2002
Springer
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Language Modeling for Multi-Domain Speech-Driven Text Retrieval
We report experimental results associated with speech-driven text retrieval, which facilitates retrieving information in multiple domains with spoken queries. Since users speak co...
Katunobu Itou, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa
CORR
2002
Springer
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PRIME: A System for Multi-lingual Patent Retrieval
Shigeto Higuchi, Masatoshi Fukui, Atsushi Fujii, T...