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ACL
1996
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Efficient Normal-Form Parsing for Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Under categorial grammars that have powerful rules like composition, a simple n-word sentence can have exponentially many parses. Generating all parses is inefficient and obscures...
Jason Eisner
ACL
1996
14 years 10 months ago
Using Parsed Corpora for Structural Disambiguation in the TRAINS Domain
This paper describes a prototype disambiguation module, KANKEI, which was tested on two corpora of the TRAINS project. In ambiguous verb phrases of form V ... NP PP or V ... NP ad...
Mark G. Core
ACL
1996
14 years 10 months ago
A New Statistical Parser Based on Bigram Lexical Dependencies
This paper describes a new statistical parser which is based on probabilities of dependencies between head-words in the parse tree. Standard bigram probability estimation techniqu...
Michael Collins
ACL
1996
14 years 10 months ago
Generating an LTAG out of a Principle-based Hierarchical Representation
Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars have proved useful for NLP. However, numerous redundancy problems face LTAGs developers, as highlighted by Vijay-Shanker and Schabes (92). We p...
Marie-Hélène Candito
ACL
1996
14 years 10 months ago
Another Facet of LIG Parsing
In this paper 1 we present a new parsing algorithm for linear indexed grammars (LIGs) in the same spirit as the one described in (Vijay-Shanker and Weir, 1993) for tree adjoining ...
Pierre Boullier
ACL
1996
14 years 10 months ago
The Selection of the Most Probable Dependency Structure in Japanese Using Mutual Information
We use a statistical method to select the most probable structure or parse for a given sentence. It takes as input the dependency structures generated for the sentence by a depend...
Eduardo de Paiva Alves
ACL
1996
14 years 10 months ago
The Rhythm of Lexical Stress in Prose
\Prose rhythm" is a widely observed but scarcely quanti ed phenomenon. We describe an information-theoretic model for measuring the regularity of lexical stress in English te...
Doug Beeferman
ACL
1996
14 years 10 months ago
Head Automata and Bilingual Tiling: Translation with Minimal Representations
We present a language model consisting of a collection of costed bidirectional finite state automata associated with the head words of phrases. The model is suitable for increment...
Hiyan Alshawi