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chem-ph/9405001 | Chemical Reactions of Silicon Clusters | Smalley and co-workers discovered that chemisorption reactivities of silicon
clusters vary over three orders of magnitude as a function of cluster size. In
particular, they found that \Si{33}, \Si{39}, and \Si{45} clusters are least
reactive towards various reagents compared to their immediate neighbors in
size. We exp... | 1994-05-17 | 2009-10-22 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Mushti V. Ramakrishna and Jun Pan |
chem-ph/9404003 | Quantum Annealing: A New Method for Minimizing Multidimensional
Functions | Quantum annealing is a new method for finding extrema of multidimensional
functions. Based on an extension of classical, simulated annealing, this
approach appears robust with respect to avoiding local minima. Further, unlike
some of its predecessors, it does not require an approximation to a
wavefunction. In this pape... | 1994-04-05 | 2009-10-22 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | A. B. Finnila, M. A. Gomez, C. Sebenik, C. Stenson, and J.D. Doll
(Department of Chemistry Brown University, Providence, Rhose Island) |
chem-ph/9404002 | Tests of Dielectric Model Descriptions of Chemical Charge Displacements
in Water | A dielectric model of electrostatic solvation is applied to describe
potentials of mean force in water along reaction paths for: a) formation of a
sodium chloride ion pair; b) the symmetric SN2 exchange of chloride in
methylchloride; and c) nucleophilic attack of formaldehyde by hydroxide anion.
For these cases simulat... | 1994-04-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Gregory J. Tawa and Lawrence R. Pratt (Theoretical Division, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM) |
chem-ph/9404001 | Ion Pair Potentials-of-Mean-Force in Water | Recent molecular simulation and integral equation results alkali-halide ion
pair potentials-of-mean-force in water are discussed. Dielectric model
calculations are implemented to check that these models produce that
characteristic structure of contact and solvent-separated minima for oppositely
charged ions in water un... | 1994-04-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Lawrence R. Pratt, Gerhard Hummer, and Angel E. Garcia (Los Alamos
National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM) |
chem-ph/9403009 | Li$_5$ as a pseudorotating planar cluster | A pseudorotating state of Li$_5$ observed in a recent EPR experiment is
investigated using the local density functional method. The calculated
isotropic spin population indicates that a planar $C_{2v}$ structure is more
consistent with the experimental result than a suggested trigonal bipyramid. A
new pseudorotating st... | 1994-03-26 | 2009-10-22 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Ryoichi Kawai and Joseph F. Tombrello (University of Alabama at
Birmingham), John H. Weare (University of California, San Diego) |
chem-ph/9403008 | Vibrational States of the Hydrogen Isotopes on Pd(111) | The ground and excited vibrational states for the three hydrogen isotopes on
the Pd(111) surface have been calculated. Notable features of these states are
the high degree of anharmonicity, which is most prominently seen in the weak
isotopic dependence of the parallel vibrational transition, and the narrow
bandwidths o... | 1994-03-16 | 2009-10-22 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Steven W. Rick and J.D. Doll (Department of Chemistry, Brown
University, Providence, RI) |
chem-ph/9403007 | Magic Numbers of Silicon Clusters | A structural model for intermediate sized silicon clusters is proposed that
is able to generate unique structures without any dangling bonds. This
structural model consists of bulk-like core of five atoms surrounded by
fullerene-like surface. Reconstruction of the ideal fullerene geometry results
in the formation of cr... | 1994-03-15 | 2009-10-22 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Jun Pan and Mushti V. Ramakrishna |
chem-ph/9403006 | The Aqueous Solvation of Water: A Comparison of Continuum Methods with
Molecular Dynamics | The calculation of the solvation properties of a single water molecule in
liquid water is carried out in two ways. In the first, the water molecule is
placed in a cavity and the solvent is treated as a dielectric continuum. This
model is analyzed by numerically solving the Poisson equation using the DelPhi
program. The... | 1994-03-15 | 2008-02-03 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Steven W. Rick and B. J. Berne (Department of Chemistry and Center for
Biomolecular Simulation, Columbia University, New York, NY) |
chem-ph/9403005 | Density Functional Calculations On First-Row Transition Metals | The excitation energies and ionization potentials of the atoms in the first
transition series are notoriously difficult to compute accurately. Errors in
calculated excitation energies can range from 1--4 eV at the Hartree-Fock
level, and errors as high as 1.5eV are encountered for ionization energies. In
the current wo... | 1994-03-10 | 2009-10-22 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Thomas V. Russo, Richard L. Martin, and P. Jeffrey Hay |
chem-ph/9403004 | Comparison of electron density functional models | Presented here are calculations of the distortion of the density of an
electron gas due to the electrostatic field of a proton. Several models based
upon the local density approximation (LDA) of density functional theory [linear
response theory, Kohn-Sham (KS), optimized Thomas-Fermi theory (OTF), and OTF
plus perturba... | 1994-03-09 | 2009-10-22 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Gary G. Hoffman, and Lawrence R. Pratt |
chem-ph/9403002 | Monte Carlo Studies of the Orientational Order-Disorder Phase Transition
in Solid Ammonium Chloride | Monte Carlo methods are used to study the phase transition in ammonium
chloride from the orientationally ordered $\delta$ phase to the orientationally
disordered $\gamma$ phase. An effective pair potential is used to model the
interaction between ions. Thermodynamic properties are computed in the
canonical and isotherm... | 1994-03-08 | 2008-02-03 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Robert Q. Topper and David L. Freeman (Department of Chemistry,
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI) |
chem-ph/9403001 | Fourier Path Integral Monte Carlo Method for the Calculation of the
Microcanonical Density of States | Using a Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation coupled with Fourier path
integral methods, expressions are derived for the numerical evaluation of the
microcanonical density of states for quantum particles obeying Boltzmann
statistics. A numerical algorithmis suggested to evaluate the quantum density
of states and illustr... | 1994-03-08 | 2009-10-22 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | David L. Freeman (Department of Chemistry, The University of Rhode
Island, Kingston, RI) and J.D. Doll (Department of Chemistry, Brown
University, Providence, RI) |
chem-ph/9403003 | Stability of the Hydrogen and Hydrogen-like Molecules | We present a simple proof of the stability of the hydrogen molecule
$(M^+M^+m^-m^-)$. It does not rely on the proton-to-electron mass ratio $M/m$
being very large, and actually holds for arbitrary values of $M/m$. Some
asymmetric molecules of the type $(m_1^+m_2^+m_3^-m_4^-)$ are also stable.
Possible applications to m... | 1994-03-08 | 2009-10-22 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Jean-Marc Richard (Universit\'e Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France)) |
cmp-lg/9412008 | Analysis of Japanese Compound Nouns using Collocational Information | Analyzing compound nouns is one of the crucial issues for natural language
processing systems, in particular for those systems that aim at a wide coverage
of domains. In this paper, we propose a method to analyze structures of
Japanese compound nouns by using both word collocations statistics and a
thesaurus. An experi... | 1994-12-25 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kobayasi Yosiyuki, Takunaga Takenobu and Tanaka Hozumi |
cmp-lg/9412007 | Coupling Phonology and Phonetics in a Constraint-Based Gestural Model | An implemented approach which couples a constraint-based phonology component
with an articulatory speech synthesizer is proposed. Articulatory gestures
ensure a tight connection between both components, as they comprise both
physical-phonetic and phonological aspects. The phonological modelling of e.g.
syllabification ... | 1994-12-23 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Markus Walther (University of Duesseldorf) and Bernd J. Kroeger
(University of Cologne, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9412006 | Robust stochastic parsing using the inside-outside algorithm | The paper describes a parser of sequences of (English) part-of-speech labels
which utilises a probabilistic grammar trained using the inside-outside
algorithm. The initial (meta)grammar is defined by a linguist and further rules
compatible with metagrammatical constraints are automatically generated. During
training, r... | 1994-12-19 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Briscoe, Ted and Waegner, Nick (University of Cambridge) |
cmp-lg/9412005 | Segmenting speech without a lexicon: The roles of phonotactics and
speech source | Infants face the difficult problem of segmenting continuous speech into words
without the benefit of a fully developed lexicon. Several sources of
information in speech might help infants solve this problem, including prosody,
semantic correlations and phonotactics. Research to date has focused on
determining to which ... | 1994-12-15 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Timothy Andrew Cartwright and Michael R. Brent |
cmp-lg/9412004 | Knowledge Representation for Lexical Semantics: Is Standard First Order
Logic Enough? | Natural language understanding applications such as interactive planning and
face-to-face translation require extensive inferencing. Many of these
inferences are based on the meaning of particular open class words. Providing a
representation that can support such lexically-based inferences is a primary
concern of lexic... | 1994-12-10 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Marc Light and Lenhart Schubert (University of Rochester) |
cmp-lg/9412003 | An Extended Clustering Algorithm for Statistical Language Models | Statistical language models frequently suffer from a lack of training data.
This problem can be alleviated by clustering, because it reduces the number of
free parameters that need to be trained. However, clustered models have the
following drawback: if there is ``enough'' data to train an unclustered model,
then the c... | 1994-12-06 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Joerg P. Ueberla (Forum Technology - DRA Malvern) |
cmp-lg/9412002 | N-Gram Cluster Identification During Empirical Knowledge Representation
Generation | This paper presents an overview of current research concerning knowledge
extraction from technical texts. In particular, the use of empirical techniques
during the identification and generation of a semantic representation is
considered. A key step is the discovery of useful n-grams and correlations
between clusters of... | 1994-12-05 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Robin Collier (Department of Computer Science, University of
Sheffield, England) |
cmp-lg/9412001 | Dependency Grammar and the Parsing of Chinese Sentences | Dependency Grammar has been used by linguists as the basis of the syntactic
components of their grammar formalisms. It has also been used in natural
language parsing. In China, attempts have been made to use this grammar
formalism to parse Chinese sentences using corpus-based techniques. This paper
reviews the properti... | 1994-12-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Bong Yeung Tom Lai (City University of Hong Kong & Tsinghua
University, Beijing) and Changning Huang (Tsinghua University, Beijing) |
cmp-lg/9411032 | Has a Consensus NL Generation Architecture Appeared, and is it
Psycholinguistically Plausible? | I survey some recent applications-oriented NL generation systems, and claim
that despite very different theoretical backgrounds, these systems have a
remarkably similar architecture in terms of the modules they divide the
generation process into, the computations these modules perform, and the way
the modules interact ... | 1994-11-30 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Ehud Reiter (CoGenTex, Ithaca, USA) |
cmp-lg/9411030 | Complexity of Scrambling: A New Twist to the Competence - Performance
Distinction | In this paper we discuss the following issue: How do we decide whether a
certain property of language is a competence property or a performance
property? Our claim is that the answer to this question is not given a-priori.
The answer depends on the formal devices (formal grammars and machines)
available to us for descr... | 1994-11-29 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Aravind K Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9411031 | Automatic Generation of Technical Documentation | Natural-language generation (NLG) techniques can be used to automatically
produce technical documentation from a domain knowledge base and linguistic and
contextual models. We discuss this application of NLG technology from both a
technical and a usefulness (costs and benefits) perspective. This discussion is
based lar... | 1994-11-29 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Ehud Reiter (CoGenTex, Ithaca, USA), Chris Mellish (University of
Edinburgh, UK), and John Levine (University of Edinburgh, UK) |
cmp-lg/9411029 | An Efficient Probabilistic Context-Free Parsing Algorithm that Computes
Prefix Probabilities | We describe an extension of Earley's parser for stochastic context-free
grammars that computes the following quantities given a stochastic context-free
grammar and an input string: a) probabilities of successive prefixes being
generated by the grammar; b) probabilities of substrings being generated by the
nonterminals,... | 1994-11-28 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Andreas Stolcke (SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025) |
cmp-lg/9411028 | The Speech-Language Interface in the Spoken Language Translator | The Spoken Language Translator is a prototype for practically useful systems
capable of translating continuous spoken language within restricted domains.
The prototype system translates air travel (ATIS) queries from spoken English
to spoken Swedish and to French. It is constructed, with as few modifications
as possibl... | 1994-11-23 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | David Carter and Manny Rayner (SRI International, Cambridge) |
cmp-lg/9411027 | Classifier Assignment by Corpus-based Approach | This paper presents an algorithm for selecting an appropriate classifier word
for a noun. In Thai language, it frequently happens that there is fluctuation
in the choice of classifier for a given concrete noun, both from the point of
view of the whole spe ech community and individual speakers. Basically, there
is no ex... | 1994-11-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Wantanee Pantachat, Surapant Meknavin |
cmp-lg/9411026 | Manipulating Human-oriented Dictionaries with very simple tools | This paper presents a methodology for building and manipulating
human-oriented dictionaries. This methodology has been applied in the
construction of a French-English-Malay dictionary which has been obtained by
"crossing" semi-automatically two bilingual dictionaries. We use only Microsoft
Word, a specialized language ... | 1994-11-18 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Jean Gaschler and Mathieu Lafourcade (GETA, IMAG (UJF & CNRS)) |
cmp-lg/9411023 | Abstract Generation based on Rhetorical Structure Extraction | We have developed an automatic abstract generation system for Japanese
expository writings based on rhetorical structure extraction. The system first
extracts the rhetorical structure, the compound of the rhetorical relations
between sentences, and then cuts out less important parts in the extracted
structure to genera... | 1994-11-17 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kenji Ono, Kazuo Sumita, Seiji Miike Research and Development Center,
Toshiba Corporation Komukai-Toshiba-cho 1, Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, 210, Japan |
cmp-lg/9411024 | Reverse Queries in DATR | DATR is a declarative representation language for lexical information and as
such, in principle, neutral with respect to particular processing strategies.
Previous DATR compiler/interpreter systems support only one access strategy
that closely resembles the set of inference rules of the procedural semantics
of DATR (Ev... | 1994-11-17 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Hagen Langer (University of Osnabrueck, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9411025 | Multi-Dimensional Inheritance | In this paper, we present an alternative approach to multiple inheritance for
typed feature structures. In our approach, a feature structure can be
associated with several types coming from different hierarchies (dimensions).
In case of multiple inheritance, a type has supertypes from different
hierarchies. We contrast... | 1994-11-17 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Gregor Erbach (University of the Saarland, Computational Linguistics
Dept.) |
cmp-lg/9411021 | Free-ordered CUG on Chemical Abstract Machine | We propose a paradigm for concurrent natural language generation. In order to
represent grammar rules distributively, we adopt categorial unification grammar
(CUG) where each category owns its functional type. We augment typed lambda
calculus with several new combinators, to make the order of lambda-conversions
free fo... | 1994-11-16 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Satoshi Tojo (Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc) |
cmp-lg/9411022 | Adaptive Sentence Boundary Disambiguation | Labeling of sentence boundaries is a necessary prerequisite for many natural
language processing tasks, including part-of-speech tagging and sentence
alignment. End-of-sentence punctuation marks are ambiguous; to disambiguate
them most systems use brittle, special-purpose regular expression grammars and
exception rules... | 1994-11-16 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | David D. Palmer and Marti A. Hearst |
cmp-lg/9411020 | Extraction in Dutch with Lexical Rules | Unbounded dependencies are often modelled by ``traces'' (and ``gap
threading'') in unification-based grammars. Pollard and Sag, however, suggest
an analysis of extraction based on lexical rules, which excludes the notion of
traces (P&S 1994, Chapter 9). In parsing, it suggests a trade of indeterminism
for lexical ambig... | 1994-11-14 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Gerrit Rentier (Tilburg University) |
cmp-lg/9411019 | Focus on ``only" and ``Not" | Krifka [1993] has suggested that focus should be seen as a means of providing
material for a range of semantic and pragmatic functions to work on, rather
than as a specific semantic or pragmatic function itself. The current paper
describes an implementation of this general idea, and applies it to the
interpretation of ... | 1994-11-11 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Allan Ramsay (Department of Computer Science, Univ. College Dublin) |
cmp-lg/9411018 | Interlanguage Signs and Lexical Transfer Errors | A theory of interlanguage (IL) lexicons is outlined, with emphasis on IL
lexical entries, based on the HPSG notion of lexical sign. This theory accounts
for idiosyncratic or lexical transfer of syntactic subcategorisation and idioms
from the first language to the IL. It also accounts for developmental stages in
IL lexi... | 1994-11-11 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Atle Ro (Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, University of
Bergen) |
cmp-lg/9411017 | Comlex Syntax: Building a Computational Lexicon | We describe the design of Comlex Syntax, a computational lexicon providing
detailed syntactic information for approximately 38,000 English headwords. We
consider the types of errors which arise in creating such a lexicon, and how
such errors can be measured and controlled. | 1994-11-10 | 2009-09-25 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Ralph Grishman, Catherine Macleod, and Adam Meyers (Computer Science
Department, New York University) |
cmp-lg/9411016 | Extending DRT with a Focusing Mechanism for Pronominal Anaphora and
Ellipsis Resolution | Cormack (1992) proposed a framework for pronominal anaphora resolution. Her
proposal integrates focusing theory (Sidner et al.) and DRT (Kamp and Reyle).
We analyzed this methodology and adjusted it to the processing of Portuguese
texts. The scope of the framework was widened to cover sentences containing
restrictive r... | 1994-11-09 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Jose Abracos, Jose Gabriel Lopes |
cmp-lg/9411014 | Automatically Identifying Morphological Relations in = Machine-Readable
Dictionaries | We describe an automated method for identifying classes of morphologically
related words in an on-line dictionary, and for linking individual senses in
the derived form to one or more senses in the base form by means of
morphological relation attributes. We also present an algorithm for computing a
score reflecting the... | 1994-11-08 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Joseph Pentheroudakis and Lucy Vanderwende, Microsoft Corporation |
cmp-lg/9411015 | Parsing Using Linearly Ordered Phonological Rules | A generate and test algorithm is described which parses a surface form into
one or more lexical entries using linearly ordered phonological rules. This
algorithm avoids the exponential expansion of search space which a naive
parsing algorithm would face by encoding into the form being parsed the
ambiguities which arise... | 1994-11-08 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael Maxwell (Summer Institute of Linguistics) |
cmp-lg/9411013 | Phoneme-level speech and natural language intergration for agglutinative
languages | A new tightly coupled speech and natural language integration model is
presented for a TDNN-based large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
system. Unlike the popular n-best techniques developed for integrating mainly
HMM-based speech and natural language systems in word level, which is obviously
inadequate for th... | 1994-11-05 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Geunbae Lee Jong-Hyeok Lee Kyunghee Kim (Department of Computer
Science & Engineering and Postech Information Research Laboratory Pohang
University of Science & Technology, Korea) |
cmp-lg/9411010 | The "Whiteboard" Architecture: a way to integrate heterogeneous
components of NLP systems | We present a new software architecture for NLP systems made of heterogeneous
components, and demonstrate an architectural prototype we have built at ATR in
the context of Speech Translation. | 1994-11-04 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Christian Boitet (GETA, IMAG (UJF & CNRS)) & Mark Seligman (ATR
Interpreting Telecommunications Research Labs) |
cmp-lg/9411012 | From Regular to Context Free to Mildly Context Sensitive Tree Rewriting
Systems: The Path of Child Language Acquisition | Current syntactic theory limits the range of grammatical variation so
severely that the logical problem of grammar learning is trivial. Yet, children
exhibit characteristic stages in syntactic development at least through their
sixth year. Rather than positing maturational delays, I suggest that
acquisition difficultie... | 1994-11-04 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Robert Frank (University of Delaware) |
cmp-lg/9411011 | Acquiring Knowledge from Encyclopedic Texts | A computational model for the acquisition of knowledge from encyclopedic
texts is described. The model has been implemented in a program, called SNOWY,
that reads unedited texts from {\em The World Book Encyclopedia}, and acquires
new concepts and conceptual relations about topics dealing with the dietary
habits of ani... | 1994-11-04 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Fernando Gomez (UCF), Richard Hull (UCF), Carlos Segami (Barry
University) |
cmp-lg/9411004 | Determining Determiner Sequencing: A Syntactic Analysis for English | Previous work on English determiners has primarily concentrated on their
semantics or scoping properties rather than their complex ordering behavior.
The little work that has been done on determiner ordering generally splits
determiners into three subcategories. However, this small number of categories
does not capture... | 1994-11-03 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Beth Ann Hockey, Dania Egedi (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9411005 | Constraining Lexical Selection Across Languages Using TAGs | Lexical selection in Machine Translation consists of several related
components. Two that have received a lot of attention are lexical mapping from
an underlying concept or lexical item, and choosing the correct
subcategorization frame based on argument structure. Because most MT
applications are small or relatively do... | 1994-11-03 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Dania Egedi, Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9411008 | Parsing Free Word-Order Languages in Polynomial Time | We present a parsing algorithm with polynomial time complexity for a large
subset of V-TAG languages. V-TAG, a variant of multi-component TAG, can handle
free-word order phenomena which are beyond the class LCFRS (which includes
regular TAG). Our algorithm is based on a CYK-style parser for TAGs. | 1994-11-03 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Tilman Becker (U. Penn.) and Owen Rambow (Paris 7) |
cmp-lg/9411006 | Status of the XTAG System | XTAG is an ongoing project to develop a wide-coverage grammar for English,
based on the Feature-based Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (FB-LTAG)
formalism. The XTAG system integrates a morphological analyzer, an N-best
part-of-speech tagger, an Early-style parser and an X-window interface, along
with a wide-coverage ... | 1994-11-03 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Christy Doran, Dania Egedi, Beth Ann Hockey, B. Srinivas (University
of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9411007 | The Linguistic Relevance of Quasi-Trees | We discuss two constructions (long scrambling and ECM verbs) which challenge
most syntactic theories (including traditional TAG approaches) since they seem
to require exceptional mechanisms and postulates. We argue that these
constructions should in fact be analyzed in a similar manner, namely as
involving a verb which... | 1994-11-03 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Anthony Kroch (U. Penn.) and Owen Rambow (Paris 7) |
cmp-lg/9411009 | Bootstrapping A Wide-Coverage CCG from FB-LTAG | A number of researchers have noted the similarities between LTAGs and CCGs.
Observing this resemblance, we felt that we could make use of the wide-coverage
grammar developed in the XTAG project to build a wide-coverage CCG. To our
knowledge there have been no attempts to construct a large-scale CCG parser
with the lexi... | 1994-11-03 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Christine Doran and B. Srinivas (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9411003 | Adnominal adjectives, code-switching and lexicalized TAG | In codeswitching contexts, the language of a syntactic head determines the
distribution of its complements. Mahootian 1993 derives this generalization by
representing heads as the anchors of elementary trees in a lexicalized TAG.
However, not all codeswitching sequences are amenable to a head-complement
analysis. For i... | 1994-11-02 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Shahrzad Mahootian and Beatrice Santorini |
cmp-lg/9411002 | CLARE: A Contextual Reasoning and Cooperative Response Framework for the
Core Language Engine | This report describes the research, design and implementation work carried
out in building the CLARE system at SRI International, Cambridge, England.
CLARE was designed as a natural language processing system with facilities for
reasoning and understanding in context and for generating cooperative
responses. The projec... | 1994-11-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Hiyan Alshawi, David Carter, Richard Crouch, Steve Pulman, Manny
Rayner and Arnold Smith |
cmp-lg/9411001 | Sublanguage Terms: Dictionaries, Usage, and Automatic Classification | The use of terms from natural and social scientific titles and abstracts is
studied from the perspective of sublanguages and their specialized
dictionaries. Different notions of sublanguage distinctiveness are explored.
Objective methods for separating hard and soft sciences are suggested based on
measures of sublangua... | 1994-11-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Robert M. Losee and Stephanie W. Haas (School of Information and
Library Science, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
cmp-lg/9410034 | A Comparison of Two Smoothing Methods for Word Bigram Models | A COMPARISON OF TWO SMOOTHING METHODS FOR WORD BIGRAM MODELS
Linda Bauman Peto
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto Abstract Word bigram models estimated from text corpora
require smoothing methods to estimate the probabilities of unseen bigrams. The
deleted estimation method uses the formula:
P... | 1994-10-31 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Linda Bauman Peto (University of Toronto) |
cmp-lg/9410033 | Default Handling in Incremental Generation | Natural language generation must work with insufficient input.
Underspecifications can be caused by shortcomings of the component providing
the input or by the preliminary state of incrementally given input. The paper
aims to escape from such dead-end situations by making assumptions. We discuss
global aspects of defau... | 1994-10-30 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Karin Harbusch (DFKI), Gen-ichiro Kikui (ATR), Anne Kilger (DFKI) |
cmp-lg/9410032 | Planning Argumentative Texts | This paper presents \proverb\, a text planner for argumentative texts.
\proverb\'s main feature is that it combines global hierarchical planning and
unplanned organization of text with respect to local derivation relations in a
complementary way. The former splits the task of presenting a particular proof
into subtasks... | 1994-10-28 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Xiaorong Huang (Fachbereich Informatik, Universit\"at des Saarlandes,
Saarbr\"ucken, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9410031 | Towards a More User-friendly Correction | We first present our view of detection and correction of syntactic errors. We
then introduce a new correction method, based on heuristic criteria used to
decide which correction should be preferred. Weighting of these criteria leads
to a flexible and parametrable system, which can adapt itself to the user. A
partitioni... | 1994-10-27 | 2009-09-25 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Damien Genthial, Jacques Courtin, Jacques Menezo Equipe Trilan
(LGI-Imag Campus, BP 53, Grenoble) |
cmp-lg/9410029 | Disambiguation of Super Parts of Speech (or Supertags): Almost Parsing | In a lexicalized grammar formalism such as Lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar
(LTAG), each lexical item is associated with at least one elementary structure
(supertag) that localizes syntactic and semantic dependencies. Thus a parser
for a lexicalized grammar must search a large set of supertags to choose the
right one... | 1994-10-26 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Aravind K. Joshi and B. Srinivas (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9410030 | Feature-Based TAG in place of multi-component adjunction: Computational
Implications | Using feature-based Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG), this paper presents
linguistically motivated analyses of constructions claimed to require
multi-component adjunction. These feature-based TAG analyses permit parsing of
these constructions using an existing unification-based Earley-style TAG
parser, thus obviating the n... | 1994-10-26 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | B.A. Hockey and B. Srinivas (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9410028 | Minimal Change and Bounded Incremental Parsing | Ideally, the time that an incremental algorithm uses to process a change
should be a function of the size of the change rather than, say, the size of
the entire current input. Based on a formalization of ``the set of things
changed'' by an incremental modification, this paper investigates how and to
what extent it is p... | 1994-10-25 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Mats Wir\'en (Universitat des Saarlandes) |
cmp-lg/9410027 | Probabilistic Tagging with Feature Structures | The described tagger is based on a hidden Markov model and uses tags composed
of features such as part-of-speech, gender, etc. The contextual probability of
a tag (state transition probability) is deduced from the contextual
probabilities of its feature-value-pairs. This approach is advantageous when
the available trai... | 1994-10-25 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Andre Kempe (University of Stuttgart) |
cmp-lg/9410025 | Syntactic Analysis Of Natural Language Using Linguistic Rules And
Corpus-based Patterns | We are concerned with the syntactic annotation of unrestricted text. We
combine a rule-based analysis with subsequent exploitation of empirical data.
The rule-based surface syntactic analyser leaves some amount of ambiguity in
the output that is resolved using empirical patterns. We have implemented a
system for genera... | 1994-10-25 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Pasi Tapanainen (Rank Xerox Research Centre), Timo J\"arvinen
(University of Helsinki) |
cmp-lg/9410026 | A Rule-Based Approach To Prepositional Phrase Attachment Disambiguation | In this paper, we describe a new corpus-based approach to prepositional
phrase attachment disambiguation, and present results comparing performance of
this algorithm with other corpus-based approaches to this problem. | 1994-10-25 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Eric Brill (Johns Hopkins) and Philip Resnik (Sun Microsystems) |
cmp-lg/9410017 | Concurrent Lexicalized Dependency Parsing: The ParseTalk Model | A grammar model for concurrent, object-oriented natural language parsing is
introduced. Complete lexical distribution of grammatical knowledge is achieved
building upon the head-oriented notions of valency and dependency, while
inheritance mechanisms are used to capture lexical generalizations. The
underlying concurren... | 1994-10-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Norbert Broeker, Udo Hahn, Susanne Schacht (Computational Linguisitcs
Research Group, Freiburg University, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9410020 | Construction of a Bilingual Dictionary Intermediated by a Third Language | When using a third language to construct a bilingual dictionary, it is
necessary to discriminate equivalencies from inappropriate words derived as a
result of ambiguity in the third language. We propose a method to treat this by
utilizing the structures of dictionaries to measure the nearness of the
meanings of words. ... | 1994-10-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kumiko TANAKA (Univ. Tokyo), Kyoji UMEMURA (NTT Basic Research
Laboratories) |
cmp-lg/9410023 | Korean to English Translation Using Synchronous TAGs | It is often argued that accurate machine translation requires reference to
contextual knowledge for the correct treatment of linguistic phenomena such as
dropped arguments and accurate lexical selection. One of the historical
arguments in favor of the interlingua approach has been that, since it revolves
around a deep ... | 1994-10-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Dania Egedi, Martha Palmer, Hyun S. Park, Aravind K. Joshi (University
of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9410022 | Automated tone transcription | In this paper I report on an investigation into the problem of assigning
tones to pitch contours. The proposed model is intended to serve as a tool for
phonologists working on instrumentally obtained pitch data from tone languages.
Motivation and exemplification for the model is provided by data taken from my
fieldwork... | 1994-10-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Steven Bird (University of Edinburgh) |
cmp-lg/9410019 | Concurrent Lexicalized Dependency Parsing: A Behavioral View on
ParseTalk Events | The behavioral specification of an object-oriented grammar model is
considered. The model is based on full lexicalization, head-orientation via
valency constraints and dependency relations, inheritance as a means for
non-redundant lexicon specification, and concurrency of computation. The
computation model relies upon ... | 1994-10-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Susanne Schacht, Udo Hahn, Norbert Broeker (Computational Linguistics
Research Group, Freiburg University, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9410024 | A Freely Available Wide Coverage Morphological Analyzer for English | This paper presents a morphological lexicon for English that handles more
than 317000 inflected forms derived from over 90000 stems. The lexicon is
available in two formats. The first can be used by an implementation of a
two-level processor for morphological analysis. The second, derived from the
first one for efficie... | 1994-10-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Daniel Karp (Stanford U.), Yves Schabes (U. Penn), Martin Zaidel (U.
Penn), and Dania Egedi (U. Penn) |
cmp-lg/9410021 | Reference Resolution Using Semantic Patterns in Japanese Newspaper
Articles | Reference resolution is one of the important tasks in natural language
processing. In this paper, the author first determines the referents and their
locations of "dousha", literally meaning "the same company", which appear in
Japanese newspaper articles. Secondly, three heuristic methods, two of which
use semantic inf... | 1994-10-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Takahiro Wakao |
cmp-lg/9410018 | Part-of-Speech Tagging with Neural Networks | Text corpora which are tagged with part-of-speech information are useful in
many areas of linguistic research. In this paper, a new part-of-speech tagging
method based on neural networks (Net- Tagger) is presented and its performance
is compared to that of a HMM-tagger and a trigram-based tagger. It is shown
that the N... | 1994-10-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Helmut Schmid (University of Stuttgart) |
cmp-lg/9410015 | Lexicalization and Grammar Development | In this paper we present a fully lexicalized grammar formalism as a
particularly attractive framework for the specification of natural language
grammars. We discuss in detail Feature-based, Lexicalized Tree Adjoining
Grammars (FB-LTAGs), a representative of the class of lexicalized grammars. We
illustrate the advantage... | 1994-10-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | B. Srinivas, Dania Egedi, Christy Doran, Tilman Becker (University of
Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9410014 | A Freely Available Syntactic Lexicon for English | This paper presents a syntactic lexicon for English that was originally
derived from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary
of Current Idiomatic English, and then modified and augmented by hand. There
are more than 37,000 syntactic entries from all 8 parts of speech. An X-windows
based tool ... | 1994-10-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Dania Egedi, Patrick Martin (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9410012 | Does Baum-Welch Re-estimation Help Taggers? | In part of speech tagging by Hidden Markov Model, a statistical model is used
to assign grammatical categories to words in a text. Early work in the field
relied on a corpus which had been tagged by a human annotator to train the
model. More recently, Cutting {\it et al.} (1992) suggest that training can be
achieved wi... | 1994-10-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | David Elworthy (Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd) |
cmp-lg/9410013 | Automatic Error Detection in Part of Speech Tagging | A technique for detecting errors made by Hidden Markov Model taggers is
described, based on comparing observable values of the tagging process with a
threshold. The resulting approach allows the accuracy of the tagger to be
improved by accepting a lower efficiency, defined as the proportion of words
which are tagged. E... | 1994-10-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | David Elworthy (Sharp Laboratories of Europe) |
cmp-lg/9410016 | Dutch Cross Serial Dependencies in HPSG | We present an analysis of Dutch cross serial dependencies in Head-driven
Phrase Structure Grammar. Arguably, our analysis differs from other analyses in
that we do not refer to `additional' mechanisms (e.g., sequence union, head
wrapping): just standard structure sharing, an immediate dominance schema and a
linear prec... | 1994-10-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Gerrit Rentier (ITK, Tilburg University) |
cmp-lg/9410011 | Dilemma - An Instant Lexicographer | Dilemma is intended to enhance quality and increase productivity of expert
human translators by presenting to the writer relevant lexical information
mechanically extracted from comparable existing translations, thus replacing -
or compensating for the absence of - a lexicographer and stand-by terminologist
rather than... | 1994-10-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Hans Karlgren (Scandface), Jussi Karlgren (SICS), Magnus Nordstr\"om
(SICS), Paul Pettersson (SICS), Bengt Wahrol\'en (Scandface) |
cmp-lg/9410009 | Lexical Functions and Machine Translation | This paper discusses the lexicographical concept of lexical functions and
their potential exploitation in the development of a machine translation
lexicon designed to handle collocations. | 1994-10-20 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Dirk Heylen, Kerry G. Maxwell, Marc Verhagen |
cmp-lg/9410008 | Recognizing Text Genres with Simple Metrics Using Discriminant Analysis | A simple method for categorizing texts into predetermined text genre
categories using the statistical standard technique of discriminant analysis is
demonstrated with application to the Brown corpus. Discriminant analysis makes
it possible use a large number of parameters that may be specific for a certain
corpus or in... | 1994-10-20 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Jussi Karlgren (SICS), Douglass Cutting (Apple) |
cmp-lg/9410010 | XTAG system - A Wide Coverage Grammar for English | This paper presents the XTAG system, a grammar development tool based on the
Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG) formalism that includes a wide-coverage syntactic
grammar for English. The various components of the system are discussed and
preliminary evaluation results from the parsing of various corpora are given.
Results fr... | 1994-10-20 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Christy Doran, Dania Egedi, Beth Ann Hockey, B. Srinivas, and Martin
Zaidel (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9410007 | A Formal Look at Dependency Grammars and Phrase-Structure Grammars, with
Special Consideration of Word-Order Phenomena | The central role of the lexicon in Meaning-Text Theory (MTT) and other
dependency-based linguistic theories cannot be replicated in linguistic
theories based on context-free grammars (CFGs). We describe Tree Adjoining
Grammar (TAG) as a system that arises naturally in the process of lexicalizing
CFGs. A TAG grammar can... | 1994-10-18 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Owen Rambow (Paris 7) and Aravind Joshi (U. Penn.) |
cmp-lg/9410005 | A Centering Approach to Pronouns | In this paper we present a formalization of the centering approach to
modeling attentional structure in discourse and use it as the basis for an
algorithm to track discourse context and bind pronouns. As described in Grosz,
Joshi and Weinstein (1986), the process of centering attention on entities in
the discourse give... | 1994-10-10 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Susan E. Brennan, Marilyn Walker Friedman, Carl J. Pollard |
cmp-lg/9410006 | Evaluating Discourse Processing Algorithms | In order to take steps towards establishing a methodology for evaluating
Natural Language systems, we conducted a case study. We attempt to evaluate two
different approaches to anaphoric processing in discourse by comparing the
accuracy and coverage of two published algorithms for finding the co-specifiers
of pronouns ... | 1994-10-10 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Marilyn A. Walker |
cmp-lg/9410004 | Spelling Correction in Agglutinative Languages | This paper presents an approach to spelling correction in agglutinative
languages that is based on two-level morphology and a dynamic programming based
search algorithm. Spelling correction in agglutinative languages is
significantly different than in languages like English. The concept of a word
in such languages is m... | 1994-10-06 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kemal Oflazer |
cmp-lg/9410003 | Principle Based Semantics for HPSG | The paper presents a constraint based semantic formalism for HPSG. The
advantages of the formlism are shown with respect to a grammar for a fragment
of German that deals with (i) quantifier scope ambiguities triggered by
scrambling and/or movement and (ii) ambiguities that arise from the
collective/distributive distinc... | 1994-10-05 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | A. Frank and U. Reyle (Institute for Computational Linguistics,
University of Stuttgart) |
cmp-lg/9410001 | Improving Language Models by Clustering Training Sentences | Many of the kinds of language model used in speech understanding suffer from
imperfect modeling of intra-sentential contextual influences. I argue that this
problem can be addressed by clustering the sentences in a training corpus
automatically into subcorpora on the criterion of entropy reduction, and
calculating sepa... | 1994-10-04 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | David Carter (SRI International, Cambridge, UK) |
cmp-lg/9410002 | Lexikoneintraege fuer deutsche Adverbien (Dictionary Entries for German
Adverbs) | Modifiers in general, and adverbs in particular, are neglected categories in
linguistics, and consequently, their treatment in Natural Language Processing
poses problems. In this article, we present the dictionary information for
German adverbs which is necessary to deal with word order, degree modifier
scope and other... | 1994-10-04 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Ralf Steinberger (UMIST, Manchester, Uk) |
cmp-lg/9409012 | Towards an Automatic Dictation System for Translators: the TransTalk
Project | Professional translators often dictate their translations orally and have
them typed afterwards. The TransTalk project aims at automating the second part
of this process. Its originality as a dictation system lies in the fact that
both the acoustic signal produced by the translator and the source text under
translation... | 1994-09-28 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Marc Dymetman, Julie Brousseau, George Foster, Pierre Isabelle, Yves
Normandin, Pierre Plamondon |
cmp-lg/9409011 | Aligning Noisy Parallel Corpora Across Language Groups : Word Pair
Feature Matching by Dynamic Time Warping | We propose a new algorithm called DK-vec for aligning pairs of
Asian/Indo-European noisy parallel texts without sentence boundaries. DK-vec
improves on previous alignment algorithms in that it handles better the
non-linear nature of noisy corpora. The algorithm uses frequency, position and
recency information as featur... | 1994-09-22 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Pascale Fung (Columbia University), Kathleen McKeown (Columbia
University) |
cmp-lg/9409010 | Inducing Probabilistic Grammars by Bayesian Model Merging | We describe a framework for inducing probabilistic grammars from corpora of
positive samples. First, samples are {\em incorporated} by adding ad-hoc rules
to a working grammar; subsequently, elements of the model (such as states or
nonterminals) are {\em merged} to achieve generalization and a more compact
representati... | 1994-09-13 | 2022-02-28 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Andreas Stolcke (ICSI, Berkeley, CA), Stephen M. Omohundro (ICSI,
Berkeley, CA) |
cmp-lg/9409008 | Parsing of Spoken Language under Time Constraints | Spoken language applications in natural dialogue settings place serious
requirements on the choice of processing architecture. Especially under adverse
phonetic and acoustic conditions parsing procedures have to be developed which
do not only analyse the incoming speech in a time-synchroneous and incremental
manner, bu... | 1994-09-09 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Wolfgang Menzel (University of Hamburg, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9409009 | Linguistics Computation, Automatic Model Generation, and Intensions | Techniques are presented for defining models of computational linguistics
theories. The methods of generalized diagrams that were developed by this
author for modeling artificial intelligence planning and reasoning are shown to
be applicable to models of computation of linguistics theories. It is shown
that for extensi... | 1994-09-09 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Cyrus F. Nourani |
cmp-lg/9409007 | Treating `Free Word Order' in Machine Translation | In `free word order' languages, every sentence is embedded in its specific
context. Among others, the order of constituents is determined by the
categories `theme', `rheme' and `contrastive focus'. This paper shows how to
recognise and to translate these categories automatically on a sentential
basis, so that sentence ... | 1994-09-08 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Ralf Steinberger (UMIST, Manchester, Uk) |
cmp-lg/9409005 | Focusing for Pronoun Resolution in English Discourse: An Implementation | Anaphora resolution is one of the most active research areas in natural
language processing. This study examines focusing as a tool for the resolution
of pronouns which are a kind of anaphora. Focusing is a discourse phenomenon
like anaphora. Candy Sidner formalized focusing in her 1979 MIT PhD thesis and
devised sever... | 1994-09-07 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Ebru Ersan (Brown University) and Varol Akman (Bilkent University,
Ankara) |
cmp-lg/9409006 | Situated Modeling of Epistemic Puzzles | Situation theory is a mathematical theory of meaning introduced by Jon
Barwise and John Perry. It has evoked great theoretical and practical interest
and motivated the framework of a few `computational' systems. PROSIT is the
pioneering work in this direction. Unfortunately, there is a lack of real-life
applications on... | 1994-09-07 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Murat Ersan (Brown University) and Varol Akman (Bilkent University,
Ankara) |
cmp-lg/9409004 | An Experiment on Learning Appropriate Selectional Restrictions from a
Parsed Corpus | We present a methodology to extract Selectional Restrictions at a variable
level of abstraction from phrasally analyzed corpora. The method relays in the
use of a wide-coverage noun taxonomy and a statistical measure of the
co-occurrence of linguistic items. Some experimental results about the
performance of the method... | 1994-09-07 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Francesc Ribas (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) |
cmp-lg/9409002 | Conceptual Association for Compound Noun Analysis | This paper describes research toward the automatic interpretation of compound
nouns using corpus statistics. An initial study aimed at syntactic
disambiguation is presented. The approach presented bases associations upon
thesaurus categories. Association data is gathered from unambiguous cases
extracted from a corpus a... | 1994-09-06 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Mark Lauer (Microsoft Institute, Sydney) |
cmp-lg/9409003 | A Probabilistic Model of Compound Nouns | Compound nouns such as example noun compound are becoming more common in
natural language and pose a number of difficult problems for NLP systems,
notably increasing the complexity of parsing. In this paper we develop a
probabilistic model for syntactically analysing such compounds. The model
predicts compound noun str... | 1994-09-06 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Mark Lauer (Microsoft Institute, Sydney), Mark Dras (Microsoft
Institute, Sydney) |
cmp-lg/9409001 | Integrating Knowledge Bases and Statistics in MT | We summarize recent machine translation (MT) research at the Information
Sciences Institute of USC, and we describe its application to the development
of a Japanese-English newspaper MT system. Our work aims at scaling up
grammar-based, knowledge-based MT techniques. This scale-up involves the use of
statistical method... | 1994-09-05 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kevin Knight (USC/ISI), Ishwar Chander (USC/ISI), Matthew Haines
(USC/ISI), Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou (Columbia Univ.), Eduard Hovy
(USC/ISI), Masayo Iida (USC/ISI), Steve K. Luk (USC/ISI), Akitoshi Okumura
(NEC), Richard Whitney (USC/ISI), Kenji Yamada (USC/ISI) |
cmp-lg/9408020 | Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Autonomy and Interaction in a Model
of Sentence Processing | Is the human language understander a collection of modular processes
operating with relative autonomy, or is it a single integrated process? This
ongoing debate has polarized the language processing community, with two
fundamentally different types of model posited, and with each camp concluding
that the other is wrong... | 1994-08-31 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kurt P. Eiselt (College of Computing, Georgia Tech), Kavi Mahesh
(College of Computing, Georgia Tech), and Jennifer K. Holbrook (Dept. of
Psychology, Albion College) |
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