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EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
A Flexible Pragmatics-Driven Language Generator for Animated Agents
This paper describes the NECA MNLG; a fully implemented Multimodal Natural Language Generation module. The MNLG is deployed as part of the NECA system which generates dialogues be...
Paul Piwek
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Topological Parsing
We present a new grammar formalism for parsing with freer word-order languages, motivated by recent linguistic research in German and the Slavic languages. Unlike CFGs, these gram...
Gerald Penn, Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
AVM Description Compilation using Types as Modes
This paper provides a method for generating compact and efficient code to implement the enforcement of a description in typed feature logic. It does so by viewing information abo...
Gerald Penn
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
CAST: A computer-aided summarisation tool
In this paper we propose computeraided summarisation (CAS) as an alternative approach to automatic summarisation, and present an ongoing project which aims to develop a CAS system...
Constantin Orasan, Ruslan Mitkov, Laura Hasler
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Translations of Named-Entity Phrases from Parallel Corpora
We develop a new approach to learning phrase translations from parallel corpora, and show that it performs with very high coverage and accuracy in choosing French translations of ...
Robert C. Moore
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Lexicalized Grammar Acquisition
This paper presents a formalization of automatic grammar acquisition that is based on lexicalized grammar formalisms (e.g. LTAG and HPSG). We state the conditions for the consiste...
Yusuke Miyao, Takashi Ninomiya, Jun-ichi Tsujii
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
An Integrated Term-Based Corpus Query System
In this paper we describe the X-TRACT workbench, which enables efficient termbased querying against a domain-specific literature corpus. Its main aim is to aid domain specialists ...
Kostas Manios, Goran Nenadic, Irena Spasic, Sophia...
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Learning to Identify Fragmented Words in Spoken Discourse
Disfluent speech adds to the difficulty of processing spoken language utterances. In this paper we concentrate on identifying one disfluency phenomenon: fragmented words. Our d...
Piroska Lendvai
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Detecting Novel Compounds: The Role of Distributional Evidence
Research on the discovery of terms from corpora has focused on word sequences whose recurrent occurrence in a corpus is indicative of their terminological status, and has not addr...
Mirella Lapata, Alex Lascarides