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cmp-lg/9408019 | Building a Parser That can Afford to Interact with Semantics | Natural language understanding programs get bogged down by the multiplicity
of possible syntactic structures while processing real world texts that human
understanders do not have much difficulty with. In this work, I analyze the
relationships between parsing strategies, the degree of local ambiguity
encountered by the... | 1994-08-31 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kavi Mahesh (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
cmp-lg/9408018 | Uniform Representations for Syntax-Semantics Arbitration | Psychological investigations have led to considerable insight into the
working of the human language comprehension system. In this article, we look at
a set of principles derived from psychological findings to argue for a
particular organization of linguistic knowledge along with a particular
processing strategy and pr... | 1994-08-31 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kavi Mahesh and Kurt P. Eiselt (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
cmp-lg/9408017 | Reaping the Benefits of Interactive Syntax and Semantics | Semantic feedback is an important source of information that a parser could
use to deal with local ambiguities in syntax. However, it is difficult to
devise a systematic communication mechanism for interactive syntax and
semantics. In this article, I propose a variant of left-corner parsing to
define the points at whic... | 1994-08-31 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kavi Mahesh (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
cmp-lg/9408016 | On Implementing an HPSG theory -- Aspects of the logical architecture,
the formalization, and the implementation of head-driven phrase structure
grammars | The paper presents some aspects involved in the formalization and
implementation of HPSG theories. As basis, the logical setups of Carpenter
(1992) and King (1989, 1994) are briefly compared regarding their usefulness as
basis for HPSGII (Pollard and Sag 1994). The possibilities for expressing HPSG
theories in the HPSG... | 1994-08-31 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Walt Detmar Meurers (SFB 340/B4, University of Tuebingen, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9408021 | A Unified Process Model of Syntactic and Semantic Error Recovery in
Sentence Understanding | The development of models of human sentence processing has traditionally
followed one of two paths. Either the model posited a sequence of processing
modules, each with its own task-specific knowledge (e.g., syntax and
semantics), or it posited a single processor utilizing different types of
knowledge inextricably inte... | 1994-08-31 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Jennifer K. Holbrook (Dept. of Psychology, Albion College), Kurt P.
Eiselt (College of Computing, Georgia Tech), and Kavi Mahesh (College of
Computing, Georgia Tech) |
cmp-lg/9408013 | Training and Scaling Preference Functions for Disambiguation | We present an automatic method for weighting the contributions of preference
functions used in disambiguation. Initial scaling factors are derived as the
solution to a least-squares minimization problem, and improvements are then
made by hill-climbing. The method is applied to disambiguating sentences in the
ATIS (Air ... | 1994-08-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Hiyan Alshawi (AT&T Bell Laboratories), David Carter (SRI
International, Cambridge) |
cmp-lg/9408014 | Qualitative and Quantitative Models of Speech Translation | This paper compares a qualitative reasoning model of translation with a
quantitative statistical model. We consider these models within the context of
two hypothetical speech translation systems, starting with a logic-based design
and pointing out which of its characteristics are best preserved or eliminated
in moving ... | 1994-08-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Hiyan Alshawi (AT&T Bell Laboratories) |
cmp-lg/9408012 | Approximate N-Gram Markov Model for Natural Language Generation | This paper proposes an Approximate n-gram Markov Model for bag generation.
Directed word association pairs with distances are used to approximate
(n-1)-gram and n-gram training tables. This model has parameters of word
association model, and merits of both word association model and Markov Model.
The training knowledge... | 1994-08-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University) and Yue-Shi Lee (National
Taiwan University) |
cmp-lg/9408015 | Experimentally Evaluating Communicative Strategies: The Effect of the
Task | Effective problem solving among multiple agents requires a better
understanding of the role of communication in collaboration. In this paper we
show that there are communicative strategies that greatly improve the
performance of resource-bounded agents, but that these strategies are highly
sensitive to the task require... | 1994-08-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Marilyn A. Walker (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories,
Cambridge, Mass.) |
cmp-lg/9408011 | Distributional Clustering of English Words | We describe and experimentally evaluate a method for automatically clustering
words according to their distribution in particular syntactic contexts.
Deterministic annealing is used to find lowest distortion sets of clusters. As
the annealing parameter increases, existing clusters become unstable and
subdivide, yieldin... | 1994-08-22 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Fernando Pereira (AT&T Bell Laboratories), Naftali Tishby (Hebrew
University), Lillian Lee (Harvard University) |
cmp-lg/9408010 | On Using Selectional Restriction in Language Models for Speech
Recognition | In this paper, we investigate the use of selectional restriction -- the
constraints a predicate imposes on its arguments -- in a language model for
speech recognition. We use an un-tagged corpus, followed by a public domain
tagger and a very simple finite state machine to obtain verb-object pairs from
unrestricted Engl... | 1994-08-19 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Joerg P. Ueberla (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada) |
cmp-lg/9408009 | Tagging accurately -- Don't guess if you know | We discuss combining knowledge-based (or rule-based) and statistical
part-of-speech taggers. We use two mature taggers, ENGCG and Xerox Tagger, to
independently tag the same text and combine the results to produce a fully
disambiguated text. In a 27000 word test sample taken from a previously unseen
corpus we achieve 9... | 1994-08-16 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Pasi Tapanainen (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble Laboratory),
Atro Voutilainen (Research Unit for Computational Linguistics, University of
Helsinki) |
cmp-lg/9408008 | Statistical versus symbolic parsing for captioned-information retrieval | We discuss implementation issues of MARIE-1, a mostly symbolic parser fully
implemented, and MARIE-2, a more statistical parser partially implemented. They
address a corpus of 100,000 picture captions. We argue that the mixed approach
of MARIE-2 should be better for this corpus because its algorithms (not data)
are sim... | 1994-08-15 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Neil C. Rowe (Code CS/Rp, Department of Computer Science, Naval
Postgraduate School, Monterey) |
cmp-lg/9408007 | Emergent Linguistic Rules from Inducing Decision Trees: Disambiguating
Discourse Clue Words | We apply decision tree induction to the problem of discourse clue word sense
disambiguation with a genetic algorithm. The automatic partitioning of the
training set which is intrinsic to decision tree induction gives rise to
linguistically viable rules. | 1994-08-13 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Eric V. Siegel and Kathleen R. McKeown (Columbia University) |
cmp-lg/9408006 | LHIP: Extended DCGs for Configurable Robust Parsing | We present LHIP, a system for incremental grammar development using an
extended DCG formalism. The system uses a robust island-based parsing method
controlled by user-defined performance thresholds. | 1994-08-03 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Afzal Ballim and Graham Russell (ISSCO, Geneva) |
cmp-lg/9408003 | Typed Feature Structures as Descriptions | A description is an entity that can be interpreted as true or false of an
object, and using feature structures as descriptions accrues several
computational benefits. In this paper, I create an explicit interpretation of a
typed feature structure used as a description, define the notion of a
satisfiable feature structu... | 1994-08-02 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Paul John King (University of Tuebingen, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9408005 | A Modular and Flexible Architecture for an Integrated Corpus Query
System | The paper describes the architecture of an integrated and extensible corpus
query system developed at the University of Stuttgart and gives examples of
some of the modules realized within this architecture. The modules form the
core of a corpus workbench. Within the proposed architecture, information
required for the e... | 1994-08-02 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Oliver Christ (IMS Stuttgart, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9408004 | Parsing with Principles and Probabilities | This paper is an attempt to bring together two approaches to language
analysis. The possible use of probabilistic information in principle-based
grammars and parsers is considered, including discussion on some theoretical
and computational problems that arise. Finally a partial implementation of
these ideas is presente... | 1994-08-02 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Andrew Fordham (Dept. of Sociology, University of Surrey, UK), and
Matthew Crocker (Centre for Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh, UK) |
cmp-lg/9408002 | Computational Analyses of Arabic Morphology | This paper demonstrates how a (multi-tape) two-level formalism can be used to
write two-level grammars for Arabic non-linear morphology using a high level,
but computationally tractable, notation. Three illustrative grammars are
provided based on CV-, moraic- and affixational analyses. These are
complemented by a propo... | 1994-08-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | George A. Kiraz |
cmp-lg/9408001 | The Correct and Efficient Implementation of Appropriateness
Specifications for Typed Feature Structures | In this paper, we argue that type inferencing incorrectly implements
appropriateness specifications for typed feature structures, promote a
combination of type resolution and unfilling as a correct and efficient
alternative, and consider the expressive limits of this alternative approach.
Throughout, we use feature coo... | 1994-08-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Dale Gerdemann and Paul John King (University of Tuebingen, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9407030 | Computing FIRST and FOLLOW Functions for Feature-Theoretic Grammars | This paper describes an algorithm for the computation of FIRST and FOLLOW
sets for use with feature-theoretic grammars in which the value of the sets
consists of pairs of feature-theoretic categories. The algorithm preserves as
much information from the grammars as possible, using negative restriction to
define equival... | 1994-07-30 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Arturo Trujillo (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) |
cmp-lg/9407029 | Building a Large-Scale Knowledge Base for Machine Translation | Knowledge-based machine translation (KBMT) systems have achieved excellent
results in constrained domains, but have not yet scaled up to newspaper text.
The reason is that knowledge resources (lexicons, grammar rules, world models)
must be painstakingly handcrafted from scratch. One of the hypotheses being
tested in th... | 1994-07-29 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute) and Steve K. Luk
(USC/Information Sciences Institute) |
cmp-lg/9407028 | Automated Postediting of Documents | Large amounts of low- to medium-quality English texts are now being produced
by machine translation (MT) systems, optical character readers (OCR), and
non-native speakers of English. Most of this text must be postedited by hand
before it sees the light of day. Improving text quality is tedious work, but
its automation ... | 1994-07-29 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute) and Ishwar Chander
(USC/Information Sciences Institute) |
cmp-lg/9407027 | Parsing as Tree Traversal | This paper presents a unified approach to parsing, in which top-down,
bottom-up and left-corner parsers are related to preorder, postorder and
inorder tree traversals. It is shown that the simplest bottom-up and
left-corner parsers are left recursive and must be converted using an extended
Greibach normal form. With fu... | 1994-07-29 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Dale Gerdemann (University of Tuebingen, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9407026 | Tagging and Morphological Disambiguation of Turkish Text | Automatic text tagging is an important component in higher level analysis of
text corpora, and its output can be used in many natural language processing
applications. In languages like Turkish or Finnish, with agglutinative
morphology, morphological disambiguation is a very crucial process in tagging,
as the structure... | 1994-07-29 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kemal Oflazer(Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey), Ilker Kuruoz
(Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) |
cmp-lg/9407025 | Recovering From Parser Failures: A Hybrid Statistical/Symbolic Approach | We describe an implementation of a hybrid statistical/symbolic approach to
repairing parser failures in a speech-to-speech translation system. We describe
a module which takes as input a fragmented parse and returns a repaired meaning
representation. It negotiates with the speaker about what the complete meaning
of the... | 1994-07-28 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Carolyn Penstein Rose' (Carnegie Mellon University), and Alex Waibel
(Carnegie Mellon University) |
cmp-lg/9407024 | PRINCIPAR---An Efficient, Broad-coverage, Principle-based Parser | We present an efficient, broad-coverage, principle-based parser for English.
The parser has been implemented in C++ and runs on SUN Sparcstations with
X-windows. It contains a lexicon with over 90,000 entries, constructed
automatically by applying a set of extraction and conversion rules to entries
from machine readabl... | 1994-07-27 | 2009-09-25 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Dekang Lin (Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba) |
cmp-lg/9407023 | Multi-Tape Two-Level Morphology: A Case Study in Semitic Non-linear
Morphology | This paper presents an implemented multi-tape two-level model capable of
describing Semitic non-linear morphology. The computational framework behind
the current work is motivated by Kay (1987); the formalism presented here is an
extension to the formalism reported by Pulman and Hepple (1993). The objectives
of the cur... | 1994-07-26 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | George Kiraz (University of Cambridge) |
cmp-lg/9407022 | Comparative Discourse Analysis of Parallel Texts | A quantitative representation of discourse structure can be computed by
measuring lexical cohesion relations among adjacent blocks of text. These
representations have been proposed to deal with sub-topic text segmentation. In
a parallel corpus, similar representations can be derived for versions of a
text in various la... | 1994-07-26 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Pim van der Eijk (Digital Equipment Corporation) |
cmp-lg/9407021 | K-vec: A New Approach for Aligning Parallel Texts | Various methods have been proposed for aligning texts in two or more
languages such as the Canadian Parliamentary Debates(Hansards). Some of these
methods generate a bilingual lexicon as a by-product. We present an alternative
alignment strategy which we call K-vec, that starts by estimating the lexicon.
For example, i... | 1994-07-25 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Pascale Fung (Columbia University), Kenneth Church (AT&T Bell Labs) |
cmp-lg/9407020 | A Sequential Algorithm for Training Text Classifiers | The ability to cheaply train text classifiers is critical to their use in
information retrieval, content analysis, natural language processing, and other
tasks involving data which is partly or fully textual. An algorithm for
sequential sampling during machine learning of statistical classifiers was
developed and teste... | 1994-07-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | David D. Lewis (AT&T Bell Labs) and William A. Gale (AT&T Bell Labs) |
cmp-lg/9407019 | Tracking Point of View in Narrative | Third-person fictional narrative text is composed not only of passages that
objectively narrate events, but also of passages that present characters'
thoughts, perceptions, and inner states. Such passages take a character's
``psychological point of view''. A language understander must determine the
current psychologica... | 1994-07-22 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Janyce M. Wiebe (New Mexico State University) |
cmp-lg/9407018 | Generating Multilingual Documents from a Knowledge Base: The TECHDOC
Project | TECHDOC is an implemented system demonstrating the feasibility of generating
multilingual technical documents on the basis of a language-independent
knowledge base. Its application domain is user and maintenance instructions,
which are produced from underlying plan structures representing the activities,
the participat... | 1994-07-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Dietmar R\"osner (FAW Ulm, Ulm, Germany), Manfred Stede (University of
Toronto and FAW Ulm) |
cmp-lg/9407017 | Generating Context-Appropriate Word Orders in Turkish | Turkish has considerably freer word order than English. The interpretations
of different word orders in Turkish rely on information that describes how a
sentence relates to its discourse context. To capture the syntactic features of
a free word order language, I present an adaptation of Combinatory Categorial
Grammars ... | 1994-07-20 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Beryl Hoffman (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9407016 | The Role of Cognitive Modeling in Achieving Communicative Intentions | A discourse planner for (task-oriented) dialogue must be able to make choices
about whether relevant, but optional information (for example, the "satellites"
in an RST-based planner) should be communicated. We claim that effective text
planners must explicitly model aspects of the Hearer's cognitive state, such as
what... | 1994-07-19 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Marilyn Walker (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories), Owen
Rambow (Universite Paris 7 / CoGenTex, Inc) |
cmp-lg/9407015 | Specifying Intonation from Context for Speech Synthesis | This paper presents a theory and a computational implementation for
generating prosodically appropriate synthetic speech in response to database
queries. Proper distinctions of contrast and emphasis are expressed in an
intonation contour that is synthesized by rule under the control of a grammar,
a discourse model, and... | 1994-07-18 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Scott Prevost (University of Pennsylvania), Mark Steedman (University
of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9407014 | Abstract Machine for Typed Feature Structures | This paper describes a first step towards the definition of an abstract
machine for linguistic formalisms that are based on typed feature structures,
such as HPSG. The core design of the abstract machine is given in detail,
including the compilation process from a high-level specification language to
the abstract machi... | 1994-07-17 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Shuly Wintner (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology) and Nissim
Francez (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology) |
cmp-lg/9407012 | Phoneme Recognition Using Acoustic Events | This paper presents a new approach to phoneme recognition using nonsequential
sub--phoneme units. These units are called acoustic events and are
phonologically meaningful as well as recognizable from speech signals. Acoustic
events form a phonologically incomplete representation as compared to
distinctive features. Thi... | 1994-07-15 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kai Huebener (University of Hamburg, Germany), Julie Carson-Berndsen
(University of Bielefeld, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9407013 | The Acquisition of a Lexicon from Paired Phoneme Sequences and Semantic
Representations | We present an algorithm that acquires words (pairings of phonological forms
and semantic representations) from larger utterances of unsegmented phoneme
sequences and semantic representations. The algorithm maintains from utterance
to utterance only a single coherent dictionary, and learns in the presence of
homonymy, s... | 1994-07-15 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Carl de Marcken (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) |
cmp-lg/9407011 | Discourse Obligations in Dialogue Processing | We show that in modeling social interaction, particularly dialogue, the
attitude of obligation can be a useful adjunct to the popularly considered
attitudes of belief, goal, and intention and their mutual and shared
counterparts. In particular, we show how discourse obligations can be used to
account in a natural manne... | 1994-07-14 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | David R. Traum (University of Rochester) and James F. Allen
(University of Rochester) |
cmp-lg/9407010 | Combining Knowledge Sources to Reorder N-Best Speech Hypothesis Lists | A simple and general method is described that can combine different knowledge
sources to reorder N-best lists of hypotheses produced by a speech recognizer.
The method is automatically trainable, acquiring information from both positive
and negative examples. Experiments are described in which it was tested on a
1000-u... | 1994-07-12 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Manny Rayner (SRI International), David Carter (SRI International),
Vassilios Digalakis (SRI International) and Patti Price (SRI International) |
cmp-lg/9407009 | Estimating Performance of Pipelined Spoken Language Translation Systems | Most spoken language translation systems developed to date rely on a
pipelined architecture, in which the main stages are speech recognition,
linguistic analysis, transfer, generation and speech synthesis. When making
projections of error rates for systems of this kind, it is natural to assume
that the error rates for ... | 1994-07-12 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Manny Rayner (SRI International), David Carter (SRI International),
Patti Price (SRI International), and Bertil Lyberg (Telia Research AB) |
cmp-lg/9407008 | Tricolor DAGs for Machine Translation | Machine translation (MT) has recently been formulated in terms of
constraint-based knowledge representation and unification theories, but it is
becoming more and more evident that it is not possible to design a practical MT
system without an adequate method of handling mismatches between semantic
representations in the... | 1994-07-06 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Koichi Takeda (IBM Research, Tokyo Research Lab.) |
cmp-lg/9407005 | A Corrective Training Algorithm for Adaptive Learning in Bag Generation | The sampling problem in training corpus is one of the major sources of errors
in corpus-based applications. This paper proposes a corrective training
algorithm to best-fit the run-time context domain in the application of bag
generation. It shows which objects to be adjusted and how to adjust their
probabilities. The r... | 1994-07-06 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Hsin-Hsi Chen (University of Taiwan) and Yue-Shi Lee (University of
Taiwan) |
cmp-lg/9407007 | GEMINI: A Natural Language System for Spoken-Language Understanding | Gemini is a natural language understanding system developed for spoken
language applications. The paper describes the architecture of Gemini, paying
particular attention to resolving the tension between robustness and
overgeneration. Gemini features a broad-coverage unification-based grammar of
English, fully interleav... | 1994-07-05 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | John Dowding, Jean Mark Gawron, Doug Appelt, John Bear, Lynn Cherny,
Robert Moore, and Douglas Moran |
cmp-lg/9407006 | Interleaving Syntax and Semantics in an Efficient Bottom-Up Parser | We describe an efficient bottom-up parser that interleaves syntactic and
semantic structure building. Two techniques are presented for reducing search
by reducing local ambiguity: Limited left-context constraints are used to
reduce local syntactic ambiguity, and deferred sortal-constraint application is
used to reduce ... | 1994-07-05 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | John Dowding, Robert Moore, Francois Andry, and Douglas Moran |
cmp-lg/9407004 | Japanese word sense disambiguation based on examples of synonyms | (This is not the abstract): The language is Japanese. If your printer does
not have fonts for Japases characters, the characters in figures will not be
printed out correctly. Dissertation for Bachelor's degree at Kyoto
University(Nagao lab.),March 1994. | 1994-07-05 | 2009-09-25 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Mitsutaka Matsumoto (Kyoto University) |
cmp-lg/9407001 | Morphology with a Null-Interface | We present an integrated architecture for word-level and sentence-level
processing in a unification-based paradigm. The core of the system is a CLP
implementation of a unification engine for feature structures supporting
relational values. In this framework an HPSG-style grammar is implemented.
Word-level processing us... | 1994-07-04 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Harald Trost (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence), Johannes Matiasek (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence) |
cmp-lg/9407002 | Syntactic Analysis by Local Grammars Automata: an Efficient Algorithm | Local grammars can be represented in a very convenient way by automata. This
paper describes and illustrates an efficient algorithm for the application of
local grammars put in this form to lemmatized texts. | 1994-07-04 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Mehryar Mohri (IGM-LADL, Paris, FRANCE) |
cmp-lg/9407003 | Compact Representations by Finite-State Transducers | Finite-state transducers give efficient representations of many Natural
Language phenomena. They allow to account for complex lexicon restrictions
encountered, without involving the use of a large set of complex rules
difficult to analyze. We here show that these representations can be made very
compact, indicate how t... | 1994-07-04 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Mehryar Mohri (IGM-Ladl, Paris, France) |
cmp-lg/9406040 | Learning unification-based grammars using the Spoken English Corpus | This paper describes a grammar learning system that combines model-based and
data-driven learning within a single framework. Our results from learning
grammars using the Spoken English Corpus (SEC) suggest that combined
model-based and data-driven learning can produce a more plausible grammar than
is the case when usin... | 1994-06-28 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Miles Osborne (Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York YO1
5DD, England) and Derek Bridge (Dept. of Computer Science, University of
York, York, YO1 5DD, England) |
cmp-lg/9406038 | An Empirical Model of Acknowledgment for Spoken-Language Systems | We refine and extend prior views of the description, purposes, and
contexts-of-use of acknowledgment acts through empirical examination of the use
of acknowledgments in task-based conversation. We distinguish three broad
classes of acknowledgments (other-->ackn, self-->other-->ackn, and self+ackn)
and present a catalog... | 1994-06-27 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | David G. Novick (Oregon Graduate Institute), Stephen Sutton (Oregon
Graduate Institute) |
cmp-lg/9406039 | Three studies of grammar-based surface-syntactic parsing of unrestricted
English text. A summary and orientation | The dissertation addresses the design of parsing grammars for automatic
surface-syntactic analysis of unconstrained English text. It consists of a
summary and three articles. {\it Morphological disambiguation} documents a
grammar for morphological (or part-of-speech) disambiguation of English, done
within the Constrain... | 1994-06-27 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Atro Voutilainen (Research Unit for Computational Linguistics,
University of Helsinki) |
cmp-lg/9406035 | DISCO---An HPSG-based NLP System and its Application for Appointment
Scheduling (Project Note) | The natural language system DISCO is described. It combines o a powerful and
flexible grammar development system; o linguistic competence for German
including morphology, syntax and semantics; o new methods for linguistic
performance modelling on the basis of high-level competence grammars; o new
methods for modelling ... | 1994-06-23 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Hans Uszkoreit, Rolf Backofen, Stephan Busemann, Abdel Kader Diagne,
Elizabeth A. Hinkelman, Walter Kasper, Bernd Kiefer, Hans-Ulrich Krieger,
Klaus Netter, Guenter Neumann, Stephan Oepen, Stephen P. Spackman |
cmp-lg/9406034 | Decision Lists for Lexical Ambiguity Resolution: Application to Accent
Restoration in Spanish and French | This paper presents a statistical decision procedure for lexical ambiguity
resolution. The algorithm exploits both local syntactic patterns and more
distant collocational evidence, generating an efficient, effective, and highly
perspicuous recipe for resolving a given ambiguity. By identifying and
utilizing only the si... | 1994-06-23 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | David Yarowsky (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9406037 | Multi-Paragraph Segmentation of Expository Text | This paper describes TextTiling, an algorithm for partitioning expository
texts into coherent multi-paragraph discourse units which reflect the subtopic
structure of the texts. The algorithm uses domain-independent lexical frequency
and distribution information to recognize the interactions of multiple
simultaneous the... | 1994-06-23 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Marti A. Hearst (UC Berkeley and Xerox PARC) |
cmp-lg/9406036 | Text Analysis Tools in Spoken Language Processing | This submission contains the postscript of the final version of the slides
used in our ACL-94 tutorial. | 1994-06-23 | 2009-09-25 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael Riley, Richard Sproat (Linguistics Research Department, AT&T
Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ) |
cmp-lg/9406033 | Verb Semantics and Lexical Selection | This paper will focus on the semantic representation of verbs in computer
systems and its impact on lexical selection problems in machine translation
(MT). Two groups of English and Chinese verbs are examined to show that lexical
selection must be based on interpretation of the sentence as well as selection
restriction... | 1994-06-22 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Zhibiao Wu (National University of Singapore) and Martha Palmer
(University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9406032 | Anytime Algorithms for Speech Parsing? | This paper discusses to which extent the concept of ``anytime algorithms''
can be applied to parsing algorithms with feature unification. We first try to
give a more precise definition of what an anytime algorithm is. We arque that
parsing algorithms have to be classified as contract algorithms as opposed to
(truly) in... | 1994-06-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Guenther Goerz (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, IMMD VIII) and
Marcus Kesseler (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, IMMD VIII) |
cmp-lg/9406028 | Resolution of Syntactic Ambiguity: the Case of New Subjects | I review evidence for the claim that syntactic ambiguities are resolved on
the basis of the meaning of the competing analyses, not their structure. I
identify a collection of ambiguities that do not yet have a meaning-based
account and propose one which is based on the interaction of discourse and
grammatical function.... | 1994-06-20 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael Niv (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9406030 | The complexity of normal form rewrite sequences for Associativity | The complexity of a particular term-rewrite system is considered: the rule of
associativity (x*y)*z --> x*(y*z). Algorithms and exact calculations are given
for the longest and shortest sequences of applications of --> that result in
normal form (NF). The shortest NF sequence for a term x is always n-drm(x),
where n is... | 1994-06-20 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael Niv (Technion) |
cmp-lg/9406029 | A Computational Model of Syntactic Processing: Ambiguity Resolution from
Interpretation | Syntactic ambiguity abounds in natural language, yet humans have no
difficulty coping with it. In fact, the process of ambiguity resolution is
almost always unconscious. But it is not infallible, however, as example 1
demonstrates.
1. The horse raced past the barn fell.
This sentence is perfectly grammatical, as is... | 1994-06-20 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael Niv (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9406031 | A Psycholinguistically Motivated Parser for CCG | Considering the speed in which humans resolve syntactic ambiguity, and the
overwhelming evidence that syntactic ambiguity is resolved through selection of
the analysis whose interpretation is the most `sensible', one comes to the
conclusion that interpretation, hence parsing take place incrementally, just
about every w... | 1994-06-20 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael Niv (Technion) |
cmp-lg/9406027 | Analyzing and Improving Statistical Language Models for Speech
Recognition | In many current speech recognizers, a statistical language model is used to
indicate how likely it is that a certain word will be spoken next, given the
words recognized so far. How can statistical language models be improved so
that more complex speech recognition tasks can be tackled? Since the knowledge
of the weakn... | 1994-06-17 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Joerg P. Ueberla |
cmp-lg/9406026 | The Very Idea of Dynamic Semantics | "Natural languages are programming languages for minds." Can we or should we
take this slogan seriously? If so, how? Can answers be found by looking at the
various "dynamic" treatments of natural language developed over the last decade
or so, mostly in response to problems associated with donkey anaphora? In
Dynamic Lo... | 1994-06-17 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | David Israel (Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI) |
cmp-lg/9406024 | Learning Fault-tolerant Speech Parsing with SCREEN | This paper describes a new approach and a system SCREEN for fault-tolerant
speech parsing. SCREEEN stands for Symbolic Connectionist Robust EnterprisE for
Natural language. Speech parsing describes the syntactic and semantic analysis
of spontaneous spoken language. The general approach is based on incremental
immediate... | 1994-06-16 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Stefan Wermter (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, FRG)
and Volker Weber (Dept. of Computer Science, University of Hamburg, FRG) |
cmp-lg/9406025 | Emergent Parsing and Generation with Generalized Chart | A new, flexible inference method for Horn logic program is proposed, which is
a drastic generalization of chart parsing, partial instantiations of clauses in
a program roughly corresponding to arcs in a chart. Chart-like parsing and
semantic-head-driven generation emerge from this method. With a parsimonious
instantiat... | 1994-06-16 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | HASIDA Koiti (Electrotechnical Laboratory) |
cmp-lg/9406023 | A Spanish Tagset for the CRATER Project | This working paper describes the Spanish tagset to be used in the context of
CRATER, a CEC funded project aiming at the creation of a multilingual (English,
French, Spanish) aligned corpus using the International Telecommunications
Union corpus. In this respect, each version of the corpus will be (or is
currently) tagg... | 1994-06-14 | 2016-08-14 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Fernando S\'anchez Le\'on (Laboratorio de Ling\"u\'istica
Inform\'atica, Facultad de Filosof\'ia y Letras, Universidad Aut\'onoma de
Madrid) |
cmp-lg/9406022 | An implemented model of punning riddles | In this paper, we discuss a model of simple question-answer punning,
implemented in a program, JAPE, which generates riddles from humour-independent
lexical entries. The model uses two main types of structure: schemata, which
determine the relationships between key words in a joke, and templates, which
produce the surf... | 1994-06-13 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kim Binsted (Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of
Edinburgh), Graeme Ritchie (Department of Artificial Intelligence, University
of Edinburgh) |
cmp-lg/9406021 | A symbolic description of punning riddles and its computer
implementation | Riddles based on simple puns can be classified according to the patterns of
word, syllable or phrase similarity they depend upon. We have devised a formal
model of the semantic and syntactic regularities underlying some of the simpler
types of punning riddle. We have also implemented this preliminary theory in a
comput... | 1994-06-13 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kim Binsted (Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of
Edinburgh), Graeme Ritchie (Department of Artificial Intelligence, University
of Edinburgh) |
cmp-lg/9406020 | DPOCL: A Principled Approach to Discourse Planning | Research in discourse processing has identified two representational
requirements for discourse planning systems. First, discourse plans must
adequately represent the intentional structure of the utterances they produce
in order to enable a computational discourse agent to respond effectively to
communicative failures ... | 1994-06-10 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | R. Michael Young (Intelligent Systems Program, University of
Pittsburgh) and Johanna D. Moore (Department of Computer Science and Learning
Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh) |
cmp-lg/9406019 | A Complete and Recursive Feature Theory | Various feature descriptions are being employed in logic programming
languages and constrained-based grammar formalisms. The common notational
primitive of these descriptions are functional attributes called features. The
descriptions considered in this paper are the possibly quantified first-order
formulae obtained fr... | 1994-06-10 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Rolf Backofen, Gert Smolka |
cmp-lg/9406018 | TDL--- A Type Description Language for Constraint-Based Grammars | This paper presents \tdl, a typed feature-based representation language and
inference system. Type definitions in \tdl\ consist of type and feature
constraints over the boolean connectives. \tdl\ supports open- and closed-world
reasoning over types and allows for partitions and incompatible types. Working
with partiall... | 1994-06-08 | 2019-08-15 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Ulrich Sch\"afer |
cmp-lg/9406015 | Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary | We describe a method of using statistically-collected Chinese character
groups from a corpus to augment a Chinese dictionary. The method is
particularly useful for extracting domain-specific and regional words not
readily available in machine-readable dictionaries. Output was evaluated both
using human evaluators and a... | 1994-06-07 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Pascale Fung (Columbia University) and Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University
of Science & Technology) |
cmp-lg/9406014 | A Hybrid Reasoning Model for Indirect Answers | This paper presents our implemented computational model for interpreting and
generating indirect answers to Yes-No questions. Its main features are 1) a
discourse-plan-based approach to implicature, 2) a reversible architecture for
generation and interpretation, 3) a hybrid reasoning model that employs both
plan infere... | 1994-06-07 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Nancy Green (University of Delaware) and Sandra Carberry (University
of Delaware and Visitor: IRCS, University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9406016 | Corpus-Driven Knowledge Acquisition for Discourse Analysis | The availability of large on-line text corpora provides a natural and
promising bridge between the worlds of natural language processing (NLP) and
machine learning (ML). In recent years, the NLP community has been aggressively
investigating statistical techniques to drive part-of-speech taggers, but
application-specifi... | 1994-06-07 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Stephen Soderland and Wendy Lehnert (University of Massachusetts) |
cmp-lg/9406017 | An Automatic Method of Finding Topic Boundaries | This article outlines a new method of locating discourse boundaries based on
lexical cohesion and a graphical technique called dotplotting. The application
of dotplotting to discourse segmentation can be performed either manually, by
examining a graph, or automatically, using an optimization algorithm. The
results of t... | 1994-06-07 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Jeffrey C. Reynar (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9406013 | Graded Unification: A Framework for Interactive Processing | An extension to classical unification, called {\em graded unification} is
presented. It is capable of combining contradictory information. An interactive
processing paradigm and parser based on this new operator are also presented. | 1994-06-05 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Albert Kim (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9406011 | Exploring the Statistical Derivation of Transformational Rule Sequences
for Part-of-Speech Tagging | Eric Brill has recently proposed a simple and powerful corpus-based language
modeling approach that can be applied to various tasks including part-of-speech
tagging and building phrase structure trees. The method learns a series of
symbolic transformational rules, which can then be applied in sequence to a
test corpus ... | 1994-06-03 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Lance A. Ramshaw (Univ. of Pennsylvania and Bowdoin College), and
Mitchell P. Marcus (Univ. of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9406012 | Self-Organizing Machine Translation: Example-Driven Induction of
Transfer Functions | With the advent of faster computers, the notion of doing machine translation
from a huge stored database of translation examples is no longer unreasonable.
This paper describes an attempt to merge the Example-Based Machine Translation
(EBMT) approach with psycholinguistic principles. A new formalism for context-
free g... | 1994-06-03 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Patrick Juola (University of Colorado) |
cmp-lg/9406008 | Parsing Turkish with the Lexical Functional Grammar Formalism | This paper describes our work on parsing Turkish using the lexical-functional
grammar formalism. This work represents the first significant effort for
parsing Turkish. Our implementation is based on Tomita's parser developed at
Carnegie-Mellon University Center for Machine Translation. The grammar covers a
substantial ... | 1994-06-02 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Zelal Gungordu (Center for Cognitive Science, Univ. of Edinburgh) and
Kemal Oflazer (Dept of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara) |
cmp-lg/9406010 | Some Advances in Transformation-Based Part of Speech Tagging | Most recent research in trainable part of speech taggers has explored
stochastic tagging. While these taggers obtain high accuracy, linguistic
information is captured indirectly, typically in tens of thousands of lexical
and contextual probabilities. In [Brill92], a trainable rule-based tagger was
described that obtain... | 1994-06-02 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Eric Brill (MIT) |
cmp-lg/9406009 | Multiset-Valued Linear Index Grammars: Imposing Dominance Constraints on
Derivations | This paper defines multiset-valued linear index grammar and unordered vector
grammar with dominance links. The former models certain uses of multiset-valued
feature structures in unification-based formalisms, while the latter is
motivated by word order variation and by ``quasi-trees'', a generalization of
trees. The tw... | 1994-06-02 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Owen Rambow (Universite Paris 7) |
cmp-lg/9406007 | Aligning a Parallel English-Chinese Corpus Statistically with Lexical
Criteria | We describe our experience with automatic alignment of sentences in parallel
English-Chinese texts. Our report concerns three related topics:
(1) progress on the HKUST English-Chinese Parallel Bilingual Corpus;
(2) experiments addressing the applicability of Gale & Church's length-based
statistical method to the ta... | 1994-06-02 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) |
cmp-lg/9406004 | Towards a Principled Representation of Discourse Plans | We argue that discourse plans must capture the intended causal and
decompositional relations between communicative actions. We present a planning
algorithm, DPOCL, that builds plan structures that properly capture these
relations, and show how these structures are used to solve the problems that
plagued previous discou... | 1994-06-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | R. Michael Young (Intelligent Systems Program, University of
Pittsburgh), Johanna D. Moore (Department of Computer Science and Learning
Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh) and Martha E.
Pollack (Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems Program,
University of Pittsburgh) |
cmp-lg/9406002 | Speech Dialogue with Facial Displays: Multimodal Human-Computer
Conversation | Human face-to-face conversation is an ideal model for human-computer
dialogue. One of the major features of face-to-face communication is its
multiplicity of communication channels that act on multiple modalities. To
realize a natural multimodal dialogue, it is necessary to study how humans
perceive information and det... | 1994-06-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Katashi Nagao (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc.) and Akikazu
Takeuchi (Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc.) |
cmp-lg/9405034 | Extracting Noun Phrases from Large-Scale Texts: A Hybrid Approach and
Its Automatic Evaluation | To acquire noun phrases from running texts is useful for many applications,
such as word grouping,terminology indexing, etc. The reported literatures adopt
pure probabilistic approach, or pure rule-based noun phrases grammar to tackle
this problem. In this paper, we apply a probabilistic chunker to deciding the
implici... | 1994-06-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kuang-hua Chen (National Taiwan University) and Hsin-Hsi Chen
(National Taiwan University) |
cmp-lg/9406001 | Intentions and Information in Discourse | This paper is about the flow of inference between communicative intentions,
discourse structure and the domain during discourse processing. We augment a
theory of discourse interpretation with a theory of distinct mental attitudes
and reasoning about them, in order to provide an account of how the attitudes
interact wi... | 1994-06-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Nicholas Asher (IRIT, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse), Alex
Lascarides (Department of Linguistics, Stanford University) |
cmp-lg/9406006 | Detecting and Correcting Speech Repairs | Interactive spoken dialog provides many new challenges for spoken language
systems. One of the most critical is the prevalence of speech repairs. This
paper presents an algorithm that detects and corrects speech repairs based on
finding the repair pattern. The repair pattern is built by finding word matches
and word re... | 1994-06-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Peter Heeman (U of Rochester) and James Allen (U of Rochester) |
cmp-lg/9406003 | A Learning Approach to Natural Language Understanding | In this paper we propose a learning paradigm for the problem of understanding
spoken language. The basis of the work is in a formalization of the
understanding problem as a communication problem. This results in the
definition of a stochastic model of the production of speech or text starting
from the meaning of a sent... | 1994-06-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Roberto Pieraccini (AT&T Bell Laboratories), Esther Levin (AT&T Bell
Laboratories) |
cmp-lg/9406005 | Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Decomposable Models | Most probabilistic classifiers used for word-sense disambiguation have either
been based on only one contextual feature or have used a model that is simply
assumed to characterize the interdependencies among multiple contextual
features. In this paper, a different approach to formulating a probabilistic
model is presen... | 1994-06-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Rebecca Bruce and Janyce Wiebe (New Mexico State University) |
cmp-lg/9405035 | Dual-Coding Theory and Connectionist Lexical Selection | We introduce the bilingual dual-coding theory as a model for bilingual mental
representation. Based on this model, lexical selection neural networks are
implemented for a connectionist transfer project in machine translation. This
lexical selection approach has two advantages. First, it is learnable. Little
human effor... | 1994-05-31 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Ye-Yi Wang (Carnegie Mellon University) |
cmp-lg/9405033 | Relating Complexity to Practical Performance in Parsing with
Wide-Coverage Unification Grammars | The paper demonstrates that exponential complexities with respect to grammar
size and input length have little impact on the performance of three
unification-based parsing algorithms, using a wide-coverage grammar. The
results imply that the study and optimisation of unification-based parsing must
rely on empirical dat... | 1994-05-31 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | John Carroll (University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory) |
cmp-lg/9405029 | Structural Tags, Annealing and Automatic Word Classification | This paper describes an automatic word classification system which uses a
locally optimal annealing algorithm and average class mutual information. A new
word-class representation, the structural tag is introduced and its advantages
for use in statistical language modelling are presented. A summary of some
results with... | 1994-05-30 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | John McMahon and F.J.Smith (Queen's University, Belfast) |
cmp-lg/9405032 | Modularity in a Connectionist Model of Morphology Acquisition | This paper describes a modular connectionist model of the acquisition of
receptive inflectional morphology. The model takes inputs in the form of phones
one at a time and outputs the associated roots and inflections. In its simplest
version, the network consists of separate simple recurrent subnetworks for root
and inf... | 1994-05-30 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael Gasser (Indiana University) |
cmp-lg/9405031 | An Attributive Logic of Set Descriptions and Set Operations | This paper provides a model theoretic semantics to feature terms augmented
with set descriptions. We provide constraints to specify HPSG style set
descriptions, fixed cardinality set descriptions, set-membership constraints,
restricted universal role quantifications, set union, intersection, subset and
disjointness. A ... | 1994-05-30 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Suresh Manandhar (HCRC Language Technology Group, The University of
Edinburgh, UK) |
cmp-lg/9405030 | Priority Union and Generalization in Discourse Grammars | We describe an implementation in Carpenter's typed feature formalism, ALE, of
a discourse grammar of the kind proposed by Scha, Polanyi, et al. We examine
their method for resolving parallelism-dependent anaphora and show that there
is a coherent feature-structural rendition of this type of grammar which uses
the opera... | 1994-05-30 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Claire Grover, Chris Brew, Suresh Manandhar, Marc Moens (HCRC Language
Technology Group, University of Edinburgh) |
cmp-lg/9405028 | Semantics of Complex Sentences in Japanese | The important part of semantics of complex sentence is captured as relations
among semantic roles in subordinate and main clause respectively. However if
there can be relations between every pair of semantic roles, the amount of
computation to identify the relations that hold in the given sentence is
extremely large. I... | 1994-05-28 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Hiroshi Nakagawa, and Shin'ichiro Nishizawa |
cmp-lg/9405027 | Acquiring Receptive Morphology: A Connectionist Model | This paper describes a modular connectionist model of the acquisition of
receptive inflectional morphology. The model takes inputs in the form of phones
one at a time and outputs the associated roots and inflections. Simulations
using artificial language stimuli demonstrate the capacity of the model to
learn suffixatio... | 1994-05-27 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael Gasser |
cmp-lg/9405026 | An Extended Theory of Head-Driven Parsing | We show that more head-driven parsing algorithms can be formulated than those
occurring in the existing literature. These algorithms are inspired by a family
of left-to-right parsing algorithms from a recent publication. We further
introduce a more advanced notion of ``head-driven parsing'' which allows more
detailed s... | 1994-05-26 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of Nijmegen) and Giorgio Satta
(University of Padova) |
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