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EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Temporal Connectives in a Discourse Context
Alex Lascarides, Jon Oberlander
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Mathematical Aspects of Command Relations
In gb, the importance of phrase-structure rules has dwindled in favour of nearness conditions. Today, nearness conditions play a major role in defining the correct linguistic rep...
Marcus Kracht
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Similarity between Words Computed by Spreading Activation on an English Dictionary
This paper proposes a method for measuring semantic similarity between words as a new tool for text analysis. The similarity is measured on a semantic network constructed systemat...
Hideki Kozima
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition from Parsing Failures
A semi-automatic procedure of linguistic knowledge acquisition is proposed, which combines corpus-based techniques with the conventional rule-based approach. The rule-based compon...
Masaki Kiyono, Jun-ichi Tsujii
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Towards a proper treatment of coercion phenomena
The interpretation of coercion constructions (to begin a book) has been recently considered as resulting from the operation of type changing. For instance, a phrase of type o (obj...
Danièle Godard, Jacques Jayez
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
A Computational Treatment of Sentence-Final 'then'
We describe a computational system which parses discourses consisting of sequences of simple sentences. These contain a range of temporal constructions, including time adverbials,...
Sheila Glasbey
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Inheriting Verb Alternations
The paper shows how the verbal lexicon can be formalised in a way that captures and exploits generalisations about the alternation behaviour of verb classes. An alternation is a p...
Adam Kilgarriff
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
A Discourse Copying Algorithm for Ellipsis and Anaphora Resolution
We give an analysis of ellipsis resolution in terms of a straightforward discourse copying algorithm that correctly predicts a wide range of phenomena. The treatment does not suff...
Andrew Kehler
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Rule-based Acquisition and Maintenance of Lexical and Semantic Knowledge
The lexicons for Knowledge-Based Machine Translation systems require knowledge intensive morphological, syntactic and semantic information. This information is often used in diffe...
Donna Gates, Peter Shell
EACL
1993
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
A unification-based approach to multiple VP Ellipsis resolution
An assumption shared by many theories of discourse is that discourse structure constrains anaphora resolution (cf. [Grosz and Sidner 1986] for definite NPs, [Lascarides and Asher ...
Claire Gardent