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1998
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1998
An essential step in comparative reconstruction is to align corresponding phonological segments in the words being compared. To do this, one must search among huge numbers of pote...
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2000
15 years 2 months ago
2000
In this paper, we outline a theory of referential accessibility called Veins Theory (VT). We show how VT addresses the problem of "left satellites", currently a problem ...
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ACL
1998
15 years 2 months ago
1998
The paper presents a tabular interpretation for a kind of 2-Stack Automata. These automata may be used to describe various parsing strategies, ranging from purely top-down to pure...
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ACL
2000
15 years 2 months ago
2000
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...
ACL
1998
15 years 2 months ago
1998
This paper describes a domain independent, automatically trained call router which directs customer calls based on their response to an open-ended "How may I direct your call...
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2000
15 years 2 months ago
2000
e, the system labels constituents with either abstract semantic roles such as AGENT or PATIENT, or more domain-specific semantic roles such as SPEAKER, MESSAGE, and TOPIC. The syst...
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ACL
2000
15 years 2 months ago
2000
We propose a distribution-based pruning of n-gram backoff language models. Instead of the conventional approach of pruning n-grams that are infrequent in training data, we prune n...
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ACL
1998
15 years 2 months ago
1998
ACL
2000
15 years 2 months ago
2000
I describe two methods for incorporating information about the relative positions of bilingual word pairs into a Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence translation model. The better o...
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ACL
1998
15 years 2 months ago
1998
In this study, a learning device based on the PATtree data structures was developed. The original PAT-trees were enhanced with the deletion function to emulate human learning comp...