Abstract. We define Probabilistic Constrained W-grammars (PCWgrammars), a two-level formalism capable of capturing grammatical frameworks used in two state of the art parsers, nam...
As an application of NLP to computer-assisted language learning(CALL) , we propose a diagnostic processing of Japanese being able to detect errors and inappropriateness of sentenc...
Agile methodologies employ light-weight development practices emphasizing a test-driven approach to the development of software systems. Modern agile development environments supp...
We propose a new, logical, approach to the decidability problem for the Straubing and Brzozowski hierarchies based on the preservation theorems from model theory, on a theorem of ...
Previous work on discourse parsing has mostly relied on surface syntactic and lexical features; the use of semantics is limited to shallow semantics. The goal of this thesis is to...