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ANLP
1994
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Resolving Anaphora in a Portable Natural Language Front End to Databases
An analysis of the evolution of Natural Language front ends in the last three decades shows that the growth in portability brought, as a side effect, the narrowing of the provided...
Flávia A. Barros, Anne N. De Roeck
AAAI
1994
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Automatic Depiction of Spatial Descriptions
A novel combination of ideas from cognitive linguistics and spatial occupancy models in robotics has led to the WIP (Words Into Pictures) system. WIP automatically generates depic...
Patrick Olivier, Toshiyuki Maeda, Jun-ichi Tsujii
AAAI
1994
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L* Parsing: A General Framework for Syntactic Analysis of Natural Language
We describe a new algorithm for table-driven parsing with context-free grammars designed to support efficient syntactic analysis of natural language. The algorithm provides a gene...
Eric K. Jones, Linton M. Miller
JISBD
2000
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Databases and Natural Language Interfaces
A Natural Language Interface for Databases allows users of multimedia kiosks to formulate natural language questions. User questions are first translated into a logic language and ...
Porfírio P. Filipe, Nuno J. Mamede
ANLP
1997
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Building Effective Queries In Natural Language Information Retrieval
In this paper we report on our natural language information retrieval (NLIR) project as related to the recently concluded 5th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC-5). The main thrust o...
Tomek Strzalkowski, Fang Lin, Jose Perez Carballo,...
FLAIRS
1998
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Action-Centered Communication with an Embedded Agent
In mostcases natural languageprocessingis seen as an isolated cognitive capability of a system. Languageunderstandingis often restricted to the mappingof natural languageexpressio...
Jan-Torsten Milde, Kornelia Peters, Simone Strippg...
COLING
2000
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Language Identification In Unknown Signals
This paper describes algorithms and software developed to characterise and detect generic intelligent language-like features iu an input signal, using Natural Language Learning te...
John R. Elliott, Eric Atwell, Bill Whyte
ACL
1998
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Project for Production of Closed-Caption TV Programs for the Hearing Impaired
We describe an on-going project whose primary aim is to establish the technology of producing closed captions for TV news programs efficiently using natural language processing an...
Takahiro Wakao, Eiji Sawamura, Terumasa Ehara, Ich...
ACL
1998
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Integration of Large-Scale Linguistic Resources in a Natural Language Understanding System
Knowledge acquisition is a serious bottleneck for natural language understanding systems. For this reason, large-scale linguistic resources have been compiled and made available b...
Lewis M. Norton, Deborah A. Dahl, Li Li, Katharine...
AAAI
1998
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Conversation Machines for Transaction Processing
We have built a set of integrated AI systems (called conversation machines) to enable transaction processing over the telephone for limited domains like stock trading and banking....
Wlodek Zadrozny, Catherine G. Wolf, Nanda Kambhatl...