Detection of discourse structure is crucial in many text-based applications. This paper presents an original framework for describing textual parallelism which allows us to genera...
We investigate the lexical and syntactic flexibility of a class of idiomatic expressions. We develop measures that draw on such linguistic properties, and demonstrate that these s...
We describe a system for automatic annotation of English text in the FrameNet standard. In addition to the conventional annotation of frame elements and their semantic roles, we a...
This paper proposes a method for dealing with repairs in action control dialogue to resolve participants' misunderstanding. The proposed method identifies the repair target b...
This paper discusses two problems that arise in the Generation of Referring Expressions: (a) numeric-valued attributes, such as size or location; (b) perspective-taking in referen...