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2000
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A Constraint-based Approach to English Prosodic Constituents
The paper develops a constraint-based theory of prosodic phrasing and prominence, based on an HPSG framework, with an implementation in ALE. Prominence and juncture are represente...
Ewan Klein
ACL
2000
14 years 10 months ago
A Polynomial-Time Fragment of Dominance Constraints
Dominance constraints are logical descriptions of trees that are widely used in computational linguistics. Their general satisfiability problem is known to be NP-complete. Here we...
Alexander Koller, Kurt Mehlhorn, Joachim Niehren
ACL
2000
14 years 10 months ago
Memory-Efficient and Thread-Safe Quasi-Destructive Graph Unification
In terms of both speed and memory consumption, graph unification remains the most expensive component of unification-based grammar parsing. We present a technique to reduce the me...
Marcel P. van Lohuizen
ACL
2000
14 years 10 months ago
Importance of Pronominal Anaphora Resolution in Question Answering Systems
The main aim of this paper is to analyse the e ects of applying pronominal anaphora resolution to Question Answering QA systems. For this task a complete QA system has been implem...
José Luis Vicedo González, Antonio F...
ACL
2000
14 years 10 months ago
An Improved Error Model for Noisy Channel Spelling Correction
The noisy channel model has been applied to a wide range of problems, including spelling correction. These models consist of two components: a source model and a channel model. Ve...
Eric Brill, Robert C. Moore