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COLING
2002
13 years 6 months ago
A Measure of Term Representativeness Based on the Number of Co-occurring Salient Words
We propose a novel measure of the representativeness (i.e., indicativeness or topic specificity) of a term in a given corpus. The measure embodies the idea that the distribution o...
Toru Hisamitsu, Yoshiki Niwa
COLING
2002
13 years 6 months ago
Extracting Important Sentences with Support Vector Machines
Extracting sentences that contain important information from a document is a form of text summarization. The technique is the key to the automatic generation of summaries similar ...
Tsutomu Hirao, Hideki Isozaki, Eisaku Maeda, Yuji ...
COLING
2002
13 years 6 months ago
Interactive Paraphrasing Based on Linguistic Annotation
We propose a method "Interactive Paraphrasing" which enables users to interactively paraphrase words in a document by their definitions, making use of syntactic annotati...
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Katashi Nagao
COLING
2002
13 years 6 months ago
A Quantitative Model of Word Order and Movement in English, Dutch and German Complement Constructions
We present a quantitative model of word order and movement constraints that enables a simple and uniform treatment of a seemingly heterogeneous collection of linear order phenomena...
Karin Harbusch, Gerard Kempen
COLING
2002
13 years 6 months ago
Extension of Zipf's Law to Words and Phrases
Zipf's law states that the frequency of word tokens in a large corpus of natural language is inversely proportional to the rank. The law is investigated for two languages Eng...
Le Quan Ha, Elvira I. Sicilia-Garcia, Ji Ming, F. ...
COLING
2002
13 years 6 months ago
Probabilistic Models of Verb-Argument Structure
We evaluate probabilistic models of verb argument structure trained on a corpus of verbs and their syntactic arguments. Models designed to represent patterns of verb alternation b...
Daniel Gildea
COLING
2002
13 years 6 months ago
Extraposition: A Case Study in German Sentence Realization
We profile the occurrence of clausal extraposition in corpora from different domains and demonstrate that extraposition is a pervasive phenomenon in German that must be addressed ...
Michael Gamon, Eric K. Ringger, Zhu Zhang, Robert ...
COLING
2002
13 years 6 months ago
Natural Language and Inference in a Computer Game
We present an engine for text adventures
Malte Gabsdil, Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegni...
COLING
2002
13 years 6 months ago
Processing Japanese Self-correction in Speech Dialog Systems
Speech dialog systems need to deal with various kinds of ill-formed speech inputs that appear in natural human-human dialog. Self-correction (or speech-repair) is a particularly p...
Kotaro Funakoshi, Takenobu Tokunaga, Hozumi Tanaka