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ACL
1994
13 years 11 months ago
A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese
We present a stochastic finite-state model for segmenting Chinese text into dictionary entries and productively derived words, and providing pronunciations for these words; the me...
Richard Sproat, Chilin Shih, William Gale, Nancy C...
ACL
1994
13 years 11 months ago
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 re...
Claire Grover, Chris Brew, Suresh Manandhar, Marc ...
ACL
1994
13 years 11 months ago
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 multisetvalued feature structures in u...
Owen Rambow
ACL
1994
13 years 11 months ago
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 i...
David R. Traum, James F. Allen
ACL
1994
13 years 11 months ago
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...
David Yarowsky
Computational Linguistics
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