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chem-ph/9508004 | Bond Orientational Order, Molecular Motion and Free Energy of High
Density DNA Mesophases | By equilibrating condensed DNA arrays against reservoirs of known osmotic
stress and examining them with several structural probes, it has been possible
to achieve a detailed thermodynamic and structural characterization of the
change between two distinct regions on the liquid crystalline phase digram: a
higher-density... | 1995-08-25 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | R. Podgornik, H.H. Strey, K. Gawrisch, D.C. Rau, A. Rupprecht and V.A.
Parsegian (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD and Stockholm
University, Sweden) |
chem-ph/9508003 | Coherent Control of Isotope Separation in HD+ Photodissociation by
Strong Fields | The photodissociation of the HD+ molecular ion in intense short- pulsed
linearly polarized laser fields is studied using a time- dependent wave-packet
approach where molecular rotation is fully included. We show that applying a
coherent superposition of the fundamental radiation with its second harmonic
can lead to asy... | 1995-08-22 | 2019-04-04 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Eric Charron, Annick Giusti-Suzor and Frederick Mies |
chem-ph/9508002 | Electrostatic potential of a homogeneously charged square and cube in
two and three dimensions | A closed form of the electrostatic potential of a homogeneously charged cube
is derived by integration. The exact result is compared with multipole
expansions for the exterior and interior of the cube. The electrostatic
potential of a homogeneously charged square in two-dimensional electrostatics
is also determined. | 1995-08-11 | 2008-02-03 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Gerhard Hummer (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
chem-ph/9508001 | A generalized local approximation to the exchange potential | A new method to obtain a local parameterization for the exchange term in the
many--body electronic problem is presented. The approach amounts to the
introduction of a coordinate dependent electron effective mass. Numerical
results for metallic clusters in the jellium model are compared with other
standard methods. | 1995-08-02 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"mtrl-th",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Aurel Bulgac, Caio Lewenkopf and Vadim Mickrjukov |
chem-ph/9507005 | Bifurcation in Rotational Spectra of Nonlinear AB$_2$ Molecules | A classical microscopic theory of rovibrational motion at high angular
momenta in symmetrical non-linear molecules AB$_2$ is derived within the
framework of small oscillations near the stationary states of a rotating
molecule. The full-dimensional analysis including stretching vibrations has
confirmed the existence of ... | 1995-07-26 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | I.N. Kozin and I.M. Pavlichenkov |
chem-ph/9507004 | The hydration free energy of water | We study the chemical potential of water as a function of charge based on
perturbation theory. By calculating the electrostatic-energy fluctuations of
two states (fully charged and uncharged) we are able to determine accurate
values for the dependence of the chemical potential on charge. We find
identical results for t... | 1995-07-20 | 2008-02-03 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Gerhard Hummer, Lawrence R. Pratt, and Angel E. Garcia (LANL) |
chem-ph/9507003 | Kinetic and thermodynamic analysis of proteinlike heteropolymers: Monte
Carlo histogram technique | Using Monte Carlo dynamics and the Monte Carlo Histogram Method, the simple
three-dimensional 27 monomer lattice copolymer is examined in depth. The
thermodynamic properties of various sequences are examined contrasting the
behavior of good and poor folding sequences. The good (fast folding) sequences
have sharp well-d... | 1995-07-07 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Nicholas D. Socci and Jos\'e Nelson Onuchic (Department of Physics,
UCSD) |
chem-ph/9507002 | Spectrum Generating Algebra for X$_{3}$ Molecules | A new spectrum generating algebra for a unified description of rotations and
vibrations in polyatomic molecules is introduced. An application to nonlinear
X$_3$ molecules shows that this model (i) incorporates exactly the relevant
point group, (ii) provides a complete classification of oblate top states, and
(iii) trea... | 1995-07-06 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"nucl-th",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | R. Bijker, A.E.L. Dieperink and A. Leviatan |
chem-ph/9507001 | The Markoff-Automaton - a New Algorithm for Simulating the
Time--Evolution of Large Stochastic Dynamic Systems | We describe a new algorithm for simulating complex Markoff-processes. We have
used a reaction-cell method in order to simulate arbitrary reactions. It can be
used for any kind of RDS on arbitrary topologies, including fractal dimensions
or configurations not being related to any spatial geometry. The events within
a si... | 1995-07-05 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"hep-lat",
"mtrl-th",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Thomas Fricke, Dietmar Wendt |
chem-ph/9506004 | Titrating Polyelectrolytes - Variational Calculations and Monte Carlo
Simulations | Variational methods are used to calculate structural and thermodynamical
properties of a titrating polyelectrolyte in a discrete representation. The
Coulomb interactions are emulated by harmonic repulsive forces, the force
constants being used as variational parameters to minimize the free energy. For
the titrating cha... | 1995-06-15 | 2008-02-03 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"hep-lat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | B. J\"onsson, M. Ullner (Phys. Chemistry 2, Lund U.), C. Peterson, O.
Sommelius and B. S\"oderberg (Theor. Phys. 2, Lund U.) |
chem-ph/9506001 | Quantum Confinement Effects in Semiconductor Clusters II | The band gaps and spectral shifts of CdS, CdSe, CdTe, AlP, GaP, GaAs, and InP
semiconductor clusters are calculated from band structure calculations using
accurate local and non-local empirical pseudopotentials. The effect of
spin-orbit coupling on the band structures is included in the calculations when
they are impor... | 1995-06-03 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Antonietta Tomasulo and Mushti V. Ramakrishna |
chem-ph/9506003 | Growth Pattern of Silicon Clusters | Tight-binding molecular dynamics simulated annealing technique is employed to
search for the ground state geometries of silicon clusters containing 11-17
atoms. These studies revealed that layer formation is the dominant growth
pattern in all these clusters. Fullerene-like precursor structures consisting
of fused penta... | 1995-06-03 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Atul Bahel, Jun Pan, and Mushti V. Ramakrishna |
chem-ph/9506002 | Chemistry of Nanoscale Semiconductor Clusters | The ground state structures of small silicon clusters are determined through
exhaustive tight-binding molecular dynamics simulation studies. These
simulations revealed that \Si{11} is an icosahedron with one missing cap,
\Si{12} is a complete icosahedron, \Si{13} is a surface capped icosahedron,
\Si{14} is a 4-4-4 laye... | 1995-06-03 | 2016-08-31 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Jun Pan, Atul Bahel, and Mushti V. Ramakrishna |
chem-ph/9505006 | Thermodynamics of helix-coil transitions studied by multicanonical
algorithms | Thermodynamics of helix-coil transitions in amino-acid homo-oligomers are
studied by the recently proposed multicanonical algorithms. Homo-oligomers of
length 10 are considered for three characteristic amino acids, alanine (helix
former), valine (helix indifferent), and glycine (helix breaker). For alanine
other length... | 1995-05-25 | 2008-02-03 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"hep-lat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Yuko Okamoto and Ulrich H.E. Hansmann |
chem-ph/9505004 | Sequence Dependence in an Off-Lattice Model for Protein Folding | See chem-ph/9505003. | 1995-05-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Anders Irb\"ack and Frank Potthast |
chem-ph/9505002 | Global geometry optimization of clusters using a growth strategy
optimized by a genetic algorithm | A new strategy for global geometry optimization of clusters is presented.
Important features are a restriction of search space to favorable
nearest-neighbor distance ranges, a suitable cluster growth representation with
diminished correlations, and easy transferability of the results to larger
clusters. The strengths a... | 1995-05-24 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Bernd Hartke (Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of
Stuttgart, Germany) |
chem-ph/9505003 | Studies of an Off-Lattice Model for Protein Folding: Sequence Dependence
and Improved Sampling at Finite Temperature | We study the thermodynamic behavior of a simple off-lattice model for protein
folding. The model is two-dimensional and has two different ``amino acids''.
Using numerical simulations of all chains containing eight or ten monomers, we
examine the sequence dependence at a fixed temperature. It is shown that only a
few of... | 1995-05-24 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Anders Irb\"ack and Frank Potthast |
chem-ph/9505005 | On the free energy of ionic hydration | The hydration free energies of ions exhibit an approximately quadratic
dependence on the ionic charge, as predicted by the Born model. We analyze this
behavior using second-order perturbation theory. This provides effective
methods to calculating free energies from equilibrium computer simulations. The
average and the ... | 1995-05-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Gerhard Hummer, Lawrence R. Pratt, and Angel E. Garcia |
chem-ph/9505001 | On finite-size effects in computer simulations using the Ewald potential | We discuss the origin and relevance for computer simulations of a strong
finite-size effect that appears when using the Ewald summation formula. It can
be understood as arising from a volume-dependent shift of the potential in a
finite, periodic box relative to the infinite volume limit. This shift is due
to the fact t... | 1995-05-04 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Francisco Figueirido, Gabriela S. Del Buono and Ronald M. Levy,
(Department of Chemistry, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, Rutgers) |
chem-ph/9504004 | Density functional theory using an optimized exchange-correlation
potential | We have performed self-consistent calculations for first and second row atoms
using a variant of density-functional theory, the optimized effective potential
method, with an approximation due to Krieger, Li and Iafrate and a
correlation-energy functional developed by Colle and Salvetti. The mean
absolute deviation of f... | 1995-04-27 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Tobias Grabo and E.K.U. Gross |
chem-ph/9504003 | Application of A Distributed Nucleus Approximation In Grid Based
Minimization of the Kohn-Sham Energy Functional | In the distributed nucleus approximation we represent the singular nucleus as
smeared over a smallportion of a Cartesian grid. Delocalizing the nucleus
allows us to solve the Poisson equation for theoverall electrostatic potential
using a linear scaling multigrid algorithm.This work is done in the context of
minimizing... | 1995-04-24 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Karthik A. Iyer, Michael P. Merrick, and Thomas L. Beck |
chem-ph/9504002 | Metal-Insulator Transition in C60-Polymers | Variations in the band structures of C60-polymers are studied, when
pi-conjugation conditions are changed. We look at band structures in order to
discuss a metal-insulator transition, using a semi-empirical model with the
Su-Schrieffer-Heeger type electron-phonon interactions. We find that electronic
structures change ... | 1995-04-14 | 2008-02-03 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"mtrl-th",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Kikuo Harigaya |
chem-ph/9504001 | Temperature Dependence of the Optical Response of Small Sodium Clusters | We present an analysis of the temperature dependence of the optical response
of small sodium clusters in a temperature range bracketing the melting phase
transition. When the temperature increases, the mean excitation energy
undergoes a red shift and the plasmon is significantly broadened, in agreement
with recent expe... | 1995-04-11 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Aurel Bulgac and Caio Lewenkopf (University of Washington) |
chem-ph/9502010 | Nonlinearity and trapping in excitation transfer: Dimers and Trimers. | We study the interplay between nonlinearity in exciton transport and trapping
due to a sink site for the dimer and the trimer with chain configuration by a
numerical integration of the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equation. Our
results for the dimer show, that the formation of a self trapped state due to
the nonline... | 1995-02-25 | 2016-08-31 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Ivan Barvik (Institute of Physics, Charles University, Prague), Bernd
Esser, Holger Schanz (Institut fuer Physik, Humboldt Universitaet, Berlin) |
chem-ph/9502011 | Excitonic - vibronic coupled dimers: A dynamic approach | The dynamical properties of exciton transfer coupled to polarization
vibrations in a two site system are investigated in detail. A fixed point
analysis of the full system of Bloch - oscillator equations representing the
coupled excitonic - vibronic flow is performed. For overcritical polarization a
bifurcation converti... | 1995-02-25 | 2016-08-31 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Bernd Esser, Holger Schanz (Institut fuer Physik, Humboldt
Universitaet, Berlin) |
chem-ph/9502009 | A Monte Carlo study of temperature-programmed desorption spectra with
attractive lateral interactions | We present results of a Monte Carlo study of temperature-programmed
desorption in a model system with attractive lateral interactions. It is shown
that even for weak interactions there are large shifts of the peak maximum
temperatures with initial coverage. The system has a transition temperature
below which the desorp... | 1995-02-20 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | A.P.J. Jansen (Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis,
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) |
chem-ph/9502007 | A Variational Approach for Minimizing Lennard-Jones Energies | A variational method for computing conformational properties of molecules
with Lennard-Jones potentials for the monomer-monomer interactions is
presented. The approach is tailored to deal with angular degrees of freedom,
{\it rotors}, and consists in the iterative solution of a set of deterministic
equations with annea... | 1995-02-17 | 2016-08-31 | [
"chem-ph",
"hep-lat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Carsten Peterson, Ola Sommelius and Bo S\"oderberg |
chem-ph/9502008 | Application of Gradient-Corrected Density Functional Theory to the
Structures and Thermochemistries of $\mbox{ScF}_3$, $\mbox{TiF}_4$,
$\mbox{VF}_5$, and $\mbox{CrF}_6$ | Density functional theory(DFT) and Hartree-Fock(HF) calculations are reported
for the family of transition metal fluorides $\mbox{ScF}_3$, $\mbox{TiF}_4$,
$\mbox{VF}_5$, and $\mbox{CrF}_6$. Both HF and the local-density-aproximation
(LDA) yield excellent agreement with experimental bond lengths, while the B-LYP
gradien... | 1995-02-17 | 2016-08-31 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Thomas V. Russo, Richard L. Martin, and P. Jeffrey Hay (Theoretical
Division, MS B268, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545) |
chem-ph/9502006 | Sequence Dependence of Self-Interacting Random Chains | We study the thermodynamic behavior of the random chain model proposed by
Iori, Marinari and Parisi, and how this depends on the actual sequence of
interactions along the chain. The properties of randomly chosen sequences are
compared to those of designed ones, obtained through a simulated annealing
procedure in sequen... | 1995-02-17 | 2016-08-31 | [
"chem-ph",
"hep-lat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Anders Irback and Holm Schwarze |
chem-ph/9502005 | Critical Behavior of the Widom-Rowlinson Lattice Model | We report extensive Monte Carlo simulations of the Widom-Rowlinson lattice
model in two and three dimensions. Our results yield precise values for the
critical activities and densities, and clearly place the critical behavior in
the Ising universality class. | 1995-02-13 | 2016-08-31 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Ronald Dickman (Lehman College, City University of New York), and
George Stell (State University of New York at Stony Brook) |
chem-ph/9502004 | "The numerical accuracy of truncated Ewald sums for periodic systems
with long-range Coulomb interactions" | Ewald summation is widely used to calculate electrostatic interactions in
computer simulations of condensed-matter systems. We present an analysis of the
errors arising from truncating the infinite real- and Fourier-space lattice
sums in the Ewald formulation. We derive an optimal choice for the
Fourier-space cutoff gi... | 1995-02-10 | 2016-08-31 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Gerhard Hummer (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545) |
chem-ph/9502001 | Structure of Si12 Cluster | Tight-binding molecular dynamic simulations have revealed that Si$_{12}$ is
an icosahedron with all atoms on the surface of an approximately 5 \AA~
diameter sphere. This is the most spherical cage structure for silicon clusters
in the 2-13 atom size range. | 1995-02-08 | 2016-08-31 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Atul Bahel and Mushti V. Ramakrishna |
chem-ph/9502003 | Spectral Shifts of Semiconductor Clusters | The shifts of the electronic absorption spectra of GaAs and GaP semiconductor
clusters are calculated using accurate pseudopotentials. In the absence of
experimental data at present, these calculations provide estimates of expected
spectral shifts in these clusters. In addition, these calculations show that
Coulomb int... | 1995-02-08 | 2016-08-31 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Antonietta Tomasulo and Mushti V. Ramakrishnai |
chem-ph/9502002 | Structure of Silicon Clusters | We determined the structures of silicon clusters in the 11-14 atom size range
using the tight-binding molecular dynamics method. These calculations reveal
that \Si{11} is an icosahedron with one missing cap, \Si{12} is a complete
icosahedron, \Si{13} is a surface capped icosahedron, and \Si{14} is a 4-4-4
layer structu... | 1995-02-08 | 2016-08-31 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Jun Pan, Atul Bahel, and Mushti V. Ramakrishna |
chem-ph/9501002 | Integral equation theory for the electrode-electrolyte interface with
the central force water model. Results for an aqueous solution of sodium
chloride | The structure of an aqueous solution of sodium chloride at a planar electrode
is investigated by integral equation techniques. With the central force water
model the aqueous electrolyte is modelled as a mixture of sodium and chloride
ions and partially charged hydrogen and oxygen atoms interacting via effective
spheric... | 1995-01-23 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | M. Vossen, F. Forstmann (Institut f\"ur Theoretische Physik, Freie
Universit\"at Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany) |
chem-ph/9501001 | Two-Color Coherent Photodissociation of Nitrogen Oxide in Intense Laser
Fields | A simple one-dimensional semi-classical model with a Morse potential is used
to investigate the possibility of two-color infrared multi-photon dissociation
of vibrationally excited nitrogen oxide. The amplitude ratio effects and
adiabatic effects are investigated. Some initial states are found to have
thresholds smalle... | 1995-01-05 | 2009-10-28 | [
"chem-ph",
"cond-mat",
"physics.chem-ph"
] | Juhi-Lian Julian Ting |
cmp-lg/9512005 | Term Encoding of Typed Feature Structures | This paper presents an approach to Prolog-style term encoding of typed
feature structures. The type feature structures to be encoded are constrained
by appropriateness conditions as in Carpenter's ALE system. But unlike ALE, we
impose a further independently motivated closed-world assumption. This
assumption allows us ... | 1995-12-22 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Dale Gerdemann |
cmp-lg/9512004 | Natural language processing: she needs something old and something new
(maybe something borrowed and something blue, too) | Given the present state of work in natural language processing, this address
argues first, that advance in both science and applications requires a revival
of concern about what language is about, broadly speaking the world; and
second, that an attack on the summarising task, which is made ever more
important by the gr... | 1995-12-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Karen Sparck Jones (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge) |
cmp-lg/9512003 | Limited Attention and Discourse Structure | This squib examines the role of limited attention in a theory of discourse
structure and proposes a model of attentional state that relates current
hierarchical theories of discourse structure to empirical evidence about human
discourse processing capabilities. First, I present examples that are not
predicted by Grosz ... | 1995-12-18 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Marilyn A. Walker |
cmp-lg/9512002 | The Unsupervised Acquisition of a Lexicon from Continuous Speech | We present an unsupervised learning algorithm that acquires a
natural-language lexicon from raw speech. The algorithm is based on the optimal
encoding of symbol sequences in an MDL framework, and uses a hierarchical
representation of language that overcomes many of the problems that have
stymied previous grammar-induct... | 1995-12-13 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Carl de Marcken (MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) |
cmp-lg/9512001 | Analysis of the Arabic Broken Plural and Diminutive | This paper demonstrates how the challenging problem of the Arabic broken
plural and diminutive can be handled under a multi-tape two-level model, an
extension to two-level morphology. | 1995-12-09 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | George A. Kiraz (University of Cambridge) |
cmp-lg/9511005 | Chart-driven Connectionist Categorial Parsing of Spoken Korean | While most of the speech and natural language systems which were developed
for English and other Indo-European languages neglect the morphological
processing and integrate speech and natural language at the word level, for the
agglutinative languages such as Korean and Japanese, the morphological
processing plays a maj... | 1995-11-29 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | WonIl Lee, Geunbae Lee, Jong-Hyeok Lee (POSTECH, Korea) |
cmp-lg/9511007 | Using Information Content to Evaluate Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy | This paper presents a new measure of semantic similarity in an IS-A taxonomy,
based on the notion of information content. Experimental evaluation suggests
that the measure performs encouragingly well (a correlation of r = 0.79 with a
benchmark set of human similarity judgments, with an upper bound of r = 0.90
for human... | 1995-11-29 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Philip Resnik |
cmp-lg/9511006 | Disambiguating Noun Groupings with Respect to WordNet Senses | Word groupings useful for language processing tasks are increasingly
available, as thesauri appear on-line, and as distributional word clustering
techniques improve. However, for many tasks, one is interested in relationships
among word {\em senses}, not words. This paper presents a method for automatic
sense disambigu... | 1995-11-29 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Philip Resnik |
cmp-lg/9511004 | An investigation into the correlation of cue phrases, unfilled pauses
and the structuring of spoken discourse | Expectations about the correlation of cue phrases, the duration of unfilled
pauses and the structuring of spoken discourse are framed in light of Grosz and
Sidner's theory of discourse and are tested for a directions-giving dialogue.
The results suggest that cue phrase and discourse structuring tasks may align,
and sho... | 1995-11-22 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Janet Cahn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
cmp-lg/9511003 | The Effect of Resource Limits and Task Complexity on Collaborative
Planning in Dialogue | This paper shows how agents' choice in communicative action can be designed
to mitigate the effect of their resource limits in the context of particular
features of a collaborative planning task. I first motivate a number of
hypotheses about effective language behavior based on a statistical analysis of
a corpus of nat... | 1995-11-15 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Marilyn A. Walker |
cmp-lg/9511002 | Letting the Cat out of the Bag: Generation for Shake-and-Bake MT | Describes an algorithm for the generation phase of a Shake-and-Bake Machine
Translation system. Since the problem is NP-complete, it is unlikely that the
algorithm will be efficient in all cases, but for the cases tested it offers an
improvement over Whitelock's previously published algorithm. The work was
carried out ... | 1995-11-13 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Chris Brew (Language Technology Group, HCRC, Edinburgh) |
cmp-lg/9511001 | Countability and Number in Japanese-to-English Machine Translation | This paper presents a heuristic method that uses information in the Japanese
text along with knowledge of English countability and number stored in transfer
dictionaries to determine the countability and number of English noun phrases.
Incorporating this method into the machine translation system ALT-J/E, helped
to rai... | 1995-11-03 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Francis Bond (NTT), Kentaro Ogura (NTT), Satoru Ikehara (NTT) |
cmp-lg/9510008 | Toward an MT System without Pre-Editing --- Effects of New Methods in
ALT-J/E --- | Recently, several types of Japanese-to-English machine translation systems
have been developed, but all of them require an initial process of rewriting
the original text into easily translatable Japanese. Therefore these systems
are unsuitable for translating information that needs to be speedily
disseminated. To overc... | 1995-10-31 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Satoru Ikehara (NTT), Satoshi Shirai (NTT), Akio Yokoo (NTT), Hiromi
Nakaiwa (NTT) |
cmp-lg/9510007 | Automatic Identification of Support Verbs: A Step Towards a Definition
of Semantic Weight | Current definitions of notions of lexical density and semantic weight are
based on the division of words into closed and open classes, and on intuition.
This paper develops a computationally tractable definition of semantic weight,
concentrating on what it means for a word to be semantically light; the
definition invol... | 1995-10-25 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Mark Dras (Natural Language Unit, Microsoft Institute, Australia) |
cmp-lg/9510006 | Incorporating Discourse Aspects in English -- Polish MT: Towards Robust
Implementation | The main aim of translation is an accurate transfer of meaning so that the
result is not only grammatically and lexically correct but also communicatively
adequate. This paper stresses the need for discourse analysis the aim of which
is to preserve the communicative meaning in English--Polish machine
translation. Unlik... | 1995-10-15 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Malgorzata E. Stys (University of Cambridge), Stefan S. Zemke
(Linkoping University) |
cmp-lg/9510005 | Developing and Evaluating a Probabilistic LR Parser of Part-of-Speech
and Punctuation Labels | We describe an approach to robust domain-independent syntactic parsing of
unrestricted naturally-occurring (English) input. The technique involves
parsing sequences of part-of-speech and punctuation labels using a
unification-based grammar coupled with a probabilistic LR parser. We describe
the coverage of several corp... | 1995-10-09 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Ted Briscoe (Cambridge University), and John Carroll (Cambridge
University) |
cmp-lg/9510003 | A Proposal for Word Sense Disambiguation using Conceptual Distance | This paper presents a method for the resolution of lexical ambiguity and its
automatic evaluation over the Brown Corpus. The method relies on the use of the
wide-coverage noun taxonomy of WordNet and the notion of conceptual distance
among concepts, captured by a Conceptual Density formula developed for this
purpose. T... | 1995-10-04 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Eneko Agirre (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea), German Rigau
(Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) |
cmp-lg/9510004 | Disambiguating bilingual nominal entries against WordNet | This paper explores the acquisition of conceptual knowledge from bilingual
dictionaries (French/English, Spanish/English and English/Spanish) using a
pre-existing broad coverage Lexical Knowledge Base (LKB) WordNet. Bilingual
nominal entries are disambiguated agains WordNet, therefore linking the
bilingual dictionaries... | 1995-10-04 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | German Rigau (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), Eneko Agirre
(Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) |
cmp-lg/9510001 | POS Tagging Using Relaxation Labelling | Relaxation labelling is an optimization technique used in many fields to
solve constraint satisfaction problems. The algorithm finds a combination of
values for a set of variables such that satisfies -to the maximum possible
degree- a set of given constraints. This paper describes some experiments
performed applying it... | 1995-10-02 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Lluis Padro (Dept LSI, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) |
cmp-lg/9509005 | ParseTalk about Textual Ellipsis | A hybrid methodology for the resolution of text-level ellipsis is presented
in this paper. It incorporates conceptual proximity criteria applied to
ontologically well-engineered domain knowledge bases and an approach to
centering based on functional topic/comment patterns. We state text grammatical
predicates for ellip... | 1995-09-28 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael Strube and Udo Hahn (Computational Linguistics Research Group,
Freiburg University, Germany) |
cmp-lg/9510002 | Using Chinese Text Processing Technique for the Processing of Sanskrit
Based Indian Languages: Maximum Resource Utilization and Maximum
Compatibility | Chinese text processing systems are using Double Byte Coding , while almost
all existing Sanskrit Based Indian Languages have been using Single Byte coding
for text processing. Through observation, Chinese Information Processing
Technique has already achieved great technical development both in east and
west. In contra... | 1995-09-27 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Md Maruf Hasan (Dept. of Information System & Computer Science
National University of Singapore) |
cmp-lg/9509004 | The Development and Migration of Concepts from Donor to Borrower
Disciplines: Sublanguage Term Use in Hard & Soft Sciences | Academic disciplines, often divided into hard and soft sciences, may be
understood as "donor disciplines" if they produce more concepts than they
borrow from other disciplines, or "borrower disciplines" if they import more
than they originate. Terms used to describe these concepts can be used to
distinguish between har... | 1995-09-13 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Robert M. Losee (SILS, U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) |
cmp-lg/9509003 | Cluster Expansions and Iterative Scaling for Maximum Entropy Language
Models | The maximum entropy method has recently been successfully introduced to a
variety of natural language applications. In each of these applications,
however, the power of the maximum entropy method is achieved at the cost of a
considerable increase in computational requirements. In this paper we present a
technique, clos... | 1995-09-09 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | John D. Lafferty and Bernhard Suhm (Carnegie Mellon) |
cmp-lg/9509002 | Conserving Fuel in Statistical Language Learning: Predicting Data
Requirements | In this paper I address the practical concern of predicting how much training
data is sufficient for a statistical language learning system. First, I briefly
review earlier results and show how these can be combined to bound the expected
accuracy of a mode-based learner as a function of the volume of training data.
I t... | 1995-09-07 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Mark Lauer (Microsoft Institute, Sydney) |
cmp-lg/9509001 | How much is enough?: Data requirements for statistical NLP | In this paper I explore a number of issues in the analysis of data
requirements for statistical NLP systems. A preliminary framework for viewing
such systems is proposed and a sample of existing works are compared within
this framework. The first steps toward a theory of data requirements are made
by establishing some ... | 1995-09-07 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Mark Lauer (Microsoft Institute, Sydney) |
cmp-lg/9508012 | A Natural Law of Succession | Consider the problem of multinomial estimation. You are given an alphabet of
k distinct symbols and are told that the i-th symbol occurred exactly n_i times
in the past. On the basis of this information alone, you must now estimate the
conditional probability that the next symbol will be i. In this report, we
present a... | 1995-08-30 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Eric Sven Ristad (Princeton University) |
cmp-lg/9508011 | The Use of Knowledge Preconditions in Language Processing | If an agent does not possess the knowledge needed to perform an action, it
may privately plan to obtain the required information on its own, or it may
involve another agent in the planning process by engaging it in a dialogue. In
this paper, we show how the requirements of knowledge preconditions can be used
to account... | 1995-08-29 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Karen E. Lochbaum (U S WEST Advanced Technologies) |
cmp-lg/9508010 | Heuristics and Parse Ranking | There are currently two philosophies for building grammars and parsers --
Statistically induced grammars and Wide-coverage grammars. One way to combine
the strengths of both approaches is to have a wide-coverage grammar with a
heuristic component which is domain independent but whose contribution is tuned
to particular... | 1995-08-28 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | B. Srinivas, Christine Doran and Seth Kulick, (University of
Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9508009 | A Labelled Analytic Theorem Proving Environment for Categorial Grammar | We present a system for the investigation of computational properties of
categorial grammar parsing based on a labelled analytic tableaux theorem
prover. This proof method allows us to take a modular approach, in which the
basic grammar can be kept constant, while a range of categorial calculi can be
captured by assign... | 1995-08-15 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Saturnino F. Luz-Filho and Patrick Sturt (Centre for Cognitive
Science, University of Edinburgh) |
cmp-lg/9508008 | On Constraint-Based Lambek Calculi | We explore the consequences of layering a Lambek proof system over an
arbitrary (constraint) logic. A simple model-theoretic semantics for our hybrid
language is provided for which a particularly simple combination of Lambek's
and the proof system of the base logic is complete. Furthermore the proof
system for the unde... | 1995-08-15 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Jochen Doerre and Suresh Manandhar |
cmp-lg/9508007 | A Dynamic Approach to Rhythm in Language: Toward a Temporal Phonology | It is proposed that the theory of dynamical systems offers appropriate tools
to model many phonological aspects of both speech production and perception. A
dynamic account of speech rhythm is shown to be useful for description of both
Japanese mora timing and English timing in a phrase repetition task. This
orientation... | 1995-08-13 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Robert Port, Fred Cummins, Michael Gasser (Indiana University) |
cmp-lg/9508006 | Bi-Lexical Rules for Multi-Lexeme Translation in Lexicalist MT | The paper presents a prototype lexicalist Machine Translation system (based
on the so-called `Shake-and-Bake' approach of Whitelock (1992) consisting of an
analysis component, a dynamic bilingual lexicon, and a generation component,
and shows how it is applied to a range of MT problems. Multi-Lexeme
translations are ha... | 1995-08-12 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Arturo Trujillo (SCMS, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen) |
cmp-lg/9508005 | A Matching Technique in Example-Based Machine Translation | This paper addresses an important problem in Example-Based Machine
Translation (EBMT), namely how to measure similarity between a sentence
fragment and a set of stored examples. A new method is proposed that measures
similarity according to both surface structure and content. A second
contribution is the use of cluster... | 1995-08-10 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Lambros Cranias, Harris Papageorgiou, Stelios Piperidis (Institute for
Language and Speech Processing, Greece) |
cmp-lg/9508003 | A Robust Parsing Algorithm For Link Grammars | In this paper we present a robust parsing algorithm based on the link grammar
formalism for parsing natural languages. Our algorithm is a natural extension
of the original dynamic programming recognition algorithm which recursively
counts the number of linkages between two words in the input sentence. The
modified algo... | 1995-08-02 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Dennis Grinberg, John Lafferty, Daniel Sleator (Carnegie Mellon) |
cmp-lg/9508002 | A Compositional Treatment of Polysemous Arguments in Categorial Grammar | We discuss an extension of the standard logical rules (functional application
and abstraction) in Categorial Grammar (CG), in order to deal with some
specific cases of polysemy. We borrow from Generative Lexicon theory which
proposes the mechanism of {\em coercion}, next to a rich nominal lexical
semantic structure cal... | 1995-08-02 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Anne-Marie Mineur (University of the Saarland, Germany) and Paul
Buitelaar (Brandeis University, USA) |
cmp-lg/9508004 | Parsing English with a Link Grammar | We develop a formal grammatical system called a link grammar, show how
English grammar can be encoded in such a system, and give algorithms for
efficiently parsing with a link grammar. Although the expressive power of link
grammars is equivalent to that of context free grammars, encoding natural
language grammars appea... | 1995-08-02 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Daniel D. K.Sleator (Carnegie Mellon) and Davy Temperley (Columbia
University) |
cmp-lg/9508001 | Bridging as Coercive Accommodation | In this paper we discuss the notion of "bridging" in Discourse Representation
Theory as a tool to account for discourse referents that have only been
established implicitly, through the lexical semantics of other referents. In
doing so, we use ideas from Generative Lexicon theory, to introduce antecedents
for anaphoric... | 1995-08-02 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Johan Bos (University of the Saarland, Germany), Paul Buitelaar
(Brandeis University, USA) and Anne-Marie Mineur (University of the Saarland,
Germany) |
cmp-lg/9507014 | Co-Indexing Labelled DRSs to Represent and Reason with Ambiguities | The paper addresses the problem of representing ambiguities in a way that
allows for monotonic disambiguation and for direct deductive computation. The
paper focuses on an extension of the formalism of underspecified DRSs to
ambiguities introduced by plural NPs. It deals with the collective/distributive
distinction, an... | 1995-07-25 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Uwe Reyle (Institute for Computational Linguistics, University of
Stuttgart) |
cmp-lg/9507011 | Generalizing Case Frames Using a Thesaurus and the MDL Principle | We address the problem of automatically acquiring case-frame patterns from
large corpus data. In particular, we view this problem as the problem of
estimating a (conditional) distribution over a partition of words, and propose
a new generalization method based on the MDL (Minimum Description Length)
principle. In order... | 1995-07-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Hang Li, Naoki Abe (C&C Res. Labs.,NEC) |
cmp-lg/9507013 | Indexed Languages and Unification Grammars | Indexed languages are interesting in computational linguistics because they
are the least class of languages in the Chomsky hierarchy that has not been
shown not to be adequate to describe the string set of natural language
sentences. We here define a class of unification grammars that exactly describe
the class of ind... | 1995-07-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Tore Burheim (University of Bergen) |
cmp-lg/9507010 | On-line Learning of Binary Lexical Relations Using Two-dimensional
Weighted Majority Algorithms | We consider the problem of learning a certain type of lexical semantic
knowledge that can be expressed as a binary relation between words, such as the
so-called sub-categorization of verbs (a verb-noun relation) and the compound
noun phrase relation (a noun-noun relation). Specifically, we view this problem
as an on-li... | 1995-07-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Naoki Abe, Hang Li, Atsuyoshi Nakamura (Theory NEC Lab., RWCP) |
cmp-lg/9507012 | A Grammar Formalism and Cross-Serial Dependencies | First we define a unification grammar formalism called the Tree Homomorphic
Feature Structure Grammar. It is based on Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), but
has a strong restriction on the syntax of the equations. We then show that this
grammar formalism defines a full abstract family of languages, and that it is
capabl... | 1995-07-24 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Tore Burheim (University of Bergen) |
cmp-lg/9507008 | A Constraint-based Case Frame Lexicon Architecture | In Turkish, (and possibly in many other languages) verbs often convey several
meanings (some totally unrelated) when they are used with subjects, objects,
oblique objects, adverbial adjuncts, with certain lexical, morphological, and
semantic features, and co-occurrence restrictions. In addition to the usual
sense varia... | 1995-07-21 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Kemal Oflazer and Okan Yilmaz (Department of Computer Engineering and
Information Science, Bilkent University, Ankara Turkey) |
cmp-lg/9507007 | An Efficient Algorithm for Surface Generation | A method is given that "inverts" a logic grammar and displays it from the
point of view of the logical form, rather than from that of the word string.
LR-compiling techniques are used to allow a recursive-descent generation
algorithm to perform "functor merging" much in the same way as an LR parser
performs prefix merg... | 1995-07-21 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Christer Samuelsson (University of the Saarland) |
cmp-lg/9507009 | Specifying Logic Programs in Controlled Natural Language | Writing specifications for computer programs is not easy since one has to
take into account the disparate conceptual worlds of the application domain and
of software development. To bridge this conceptual gap we propose controlled
natural language as a declarative and application-specific specification
language. Contro... | 1995-07-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Norbert E. Fuchs, Rolf Schwitter (Department of Computer Science,
University of Zurich) |
cmp-lg/9507006 | Transfer in a Connectionist Model of the Acquisition of Morphology | The morphological systems of natural languages are replete with examples of
the same devices used for multiple purposes: (1) the same type of morphological
process (for example, suffixation for both noun case and verb tense) and (2)
identical morphemes (for example, the same suffix for English noun plural and
possessiv... | 1995-07-20 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael Gasser (Indiana University) |
cmp-lg/9507005 | Comparative Ellipsis and Variable Binding | In this paper, we discuss the question whether phrasal comparatives should be
given a direct interpretation, or require an analysis as elliptic
constructions, and answer it with Yes and No. The most adequate analysis of
wide reading attributive (WRA) comparatives seems to be as cases of ellipsis,
while a direct (but as... | 1995-07-19 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Jan Lerner and Manfred Pinkal (University of the Saarland, Dept. of
Computational Linguistics) |
cmp-lg/9507004 | GRAMPAL: A Morphological Processor for Spanish implemented in Prolog | A model for the full treatment of Spanish inflection for verbs, nouns and
adjectives is presented. This model is based on feature unification and it
relies upon a lexicon of allomorphs both for stems and morphemes. Word forms
are built by the concatenation of allomorphs by means of special contextual
features. We make ... | 1995-07-18 | 2016-08-15 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Antonio Moreno (Universidad Aut\'onoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain) and
Jos\'e M. Go\~ni (Universidad Polit\'ecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain) |
cmp-lg/9507003 | Robust Processing of Natural Language | Previous approaches to robustness in natural language processing usually
treat deviant input by relaxing grammatical constraints whenever a successful
analysis cannot be provided by ``normal'' means. This schema implies, that
error detection always comes prior to error handling, a behaviour which hardly
can compete wit... | 1995-07-13 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Wolfgang Menzel (University of Hamburg) |
cmp-lg/9507002 | A framework for lexical representation | In this paper we present a unification-based lexical platform designed for
highly inflected languages (like Roman ones). A formalism is proposed for
encoding a lemma-based lexical source, well suited for linguistic
generalizations. From this source, we automatically generate an allomorph
indexed dictionary, adequate fo... | 1995-07-06 | 2016-08-15 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Jos\'e M. Go\~ni, Jos\'e C. Gonz\'alez (E.T.S.I. Telecomunicaci\'on,
Universidad Polit\'ecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain) |
cmp-lg/9507001 | Constraint Categorial Grammars | Although unification can be used to implement a weak form of
$\beta$-reduction, several linguistic phenomena are better handled by using
some form of $\lambda$-calculus. In this paper we present a higher order
feature description calculus based on a typed $\lambda$-calculus. We show how
the techniques used in \CLG for ... | 1995-07-04 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Luis Damas, Nelma Moreira |
cmp-lg/9506026 | A Computational Approach to Aspectual Composition | In this paper, I argue, contrary to the prevailing opinion in the linguistics
and philosophy literature, that a sortal approach to aspectual composition can
indeed be explanatory. In support of this view, I develop a synthesis of
competing proposals by Hinrichs, Krifka and Jackendoff which takes Jackendoff's
cross-cutt... | 1995-07-01 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael White (CoGenTex, Inc.) |
cmp-lg/9506025 | A Categorial Framework for Composition in Multiple Linguistic Domains | This paper describes a computational framework for a grammar architecture in
which different linguistic domains such as morphology, syntax, and semantics
are treated not as separate components but compositional domains. Word and
phrase formation are modeled as uniform processes contributing to the
derivation of the sem... | 1995-06-29 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Cem Bozsahin and Elvan Gocmen (Middle East Technical University) |
cmp-lg/9506024 | An Approach to Proper Name Tagging for German | This paper presents an incremental method for the tagging of proper names in
German newspaper texts. The tagging is performed by the analysis of the
syntactic and textual contexts of proper names together with a morphological
analysis. The proper names selected by this process supply new contexts which
can be used for ... | 1995-06-28 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Christine Thielen (SfS, University of T"ubingen) |
cmp-lg/9506023 | Empirical Discovery in Linguistics | A discovery system for detecting correspondences in data is described, based
on the familiar induction methods of J. S. Mill. Given a set of observations,
the system induces the ``causally'' related facts in these observations. Its
application to empirical linguistic discovery is described. | 1995-06-26 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Vladimir Pericliev (Institute of Mathematics, bl.8, 1113 Sofia,
Bulgaria) |
cmp-lg/9506022 | Deriving Procedural and Warning Instructions from Device and Environment
Models | This study is centred on the generation of instructions for household
appliances. We show how knowledge about a device, together with knowledge about
the environment, can be used for reasoning about instructions. The information
communicated by the instructions can be planned from a version of the knowledge
of the arti... | 1995-06-24 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Daniel Ansari (University of Toronto) |
cmp-lg/9506021 | Prepositional Phrase Attachment through a Backed-Off Model | Recent work has considered corpus-based or statistical approaches to the
problem of prepositional phrase attachment ambiguity. Typically, ambiguous verb
phrases of the form {v np1 p np2} are resolved through a model which considers
values of the four head words (v, n1, p and n2). This paper shows that the
problem is an... | 1995-06-22 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Michael Collins, James Brooks (University of Pennsylvania) |
cmp-lg/9506020 | GLR-Parsing of Word Lattices Using a Beam Search Method | This paper presents an approach that allows the efficient integration of
speech recognition and language understanding using Tomita's generalized
LR-parsing algorithm. For this purpose the GLRP-algorithm is revised so that an
agenda mechanism can be used to control the flow of computation of the parsing
process. This n... | 1995-06-22 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Steffen Staab (Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, IMMD 8) |
cmp-lg/9506019 | Review of Charniak's "Statistical Language Learning" | This article is an in-depth review of Eugene Charniak's book, "Statistical
Language Learning". The review evaluates the appropriateness of the book as an
introductory text for statistical language learning for a variety of audiences.
It also includes an extensive bibliography of articles and papers which might
be used ... | 1995-06-21 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | David M. Magerman |
cmp-lg/9506018 | Intelligent Voice Prosthesis: Converting Icons into Natural Language
Sentences | The Intelligent Voice Prosthesis is a communication tool which reconstructs
the meaning of an ill-structured sequence of icons or symbols, and expresses
this meaning into sentences of a Natural Language (French). It has been
developed for the use of people who cannot express themselves orally in natural
language, and f... | 1995-06-21 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Pascal Vaillant (Thomson-CSF LCR), Michael Checler (ESIEA /
Thomson-CSF LCR) |
cmp-lg/9506017 | The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution | By strictest interpretation, theories of both centering and intonational
meaning fail to predict the existence of pitch accented pronominals. Yet they
occur felicitously in spoken discourse. To explain this, I emphasize the dual
functions served by pitch accents, as markers of both propositional
(semantic/pragmatic) an... | 1995-06-18 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Janet Cahn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
cmp-lg/9506016 | Indefeasible Semantics and Defeasible Pragmatics | An account of utterance interpretation in discourse needs to face the issue
of how the discourse context controls the space of interacting preferences.
Assuming a discourse processing architecture that distinguishes the grammar and
pragmatics subsystems in terms of monotonic and nonmonotonic inferences, I will
discuss ... | 1995-06-14 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Megumi Kameyama (AI Center and CSLI, SRI International) |
cmp-lg/9506015 | Ambiguity in the Acquisition of Lexical Information | This paper describes an approach to the automatic identification of lexical
information in on-line dictionaries. This approach uses bootstrapping
techniques, specifically so that ambiguity in the dictionary text can be
treated properly. This approach consists of processing an on-line dictionary
multiple times, each tim... | 1995-06-14 | 2008-02-03 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | Lucy Vanderwende |
cmp-lg/9506014 | Inducing Features of Random Fields | We present a technique for constructing random fields from a set of training
samples. The learning paradigm builds increasingly complex fields by allowing
potential functions, or features, that are supported by increasingly large
subgraphs. Each feature has a weight that is trained by minimizing the
Kullback-Leibler di... | 1995-06-13 | 2016-08-31 | [
"cmp-lg",
"cs.CL"
] | S. Della Pietra, V. Della Pietra (IBM), and J. Lafferty (CMU) |
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