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1998
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1998
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1998
This paper reports on the ESPRIT project MELISSA (Methods and Tools for NaturalLanguage Interfacing with Standard Software
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1998
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1998
Current models of story comprehension have three major deficiencies: (1) lack of experimental support for the inference processes they involve (e.g. reliance on prediction); (2) i...
ACL
1998
15 years 2 months ago
1998
ACL
1998
15 years 2 months ago
1998
This paper studies and evaluates disambiguation strategies for the translation of tense between German and English, using a bilingual corpus of appointment scheduling dialogues. I...
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1998
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1998
Several methods are known for parsing languages generated by Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAGs) in O(n 6) worst case running time. In this paper we investigate which restrictions on T...
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1998
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1998
This paper proposes a learning method of translation rules from parallel corpora. This method applies the maximum entropy principle to a probabilistic model of translation rules. ...
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1998
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1998
Much of the power of probabilistic methods in modelling language comes from their ability to compare several derivations for the same string in the language. An important starting...
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1998
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1998
We propose a comprehensive theory of codemixed discourse, encompassing equivalencepoint and insertional code-switching, palindromic constructions and lexical borrowing. The starti...
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1998
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1998
An efficient use of lexical cohesion is described for ranking text units according to their contribution in defining the meaning of a text (textual saliency), their ability to for...