The use of figurative language is ubiquitous in natural language texts and it is a serious bottleneck in automatic text understanding. We address the problem of interpretation of ...
In this paper, we propose a novel dependency-based bracketing transduction grammar for statistical machine translation, which converts a source sentence into a target dependency t...
Jinsong Su, Yang Liu, Haitao Mi, Hongmei Zhao, Yaj...
This paper describes a hybrid parsing method for Japanese which uses both a hand-crafted grammar and a statistical technique. The key feature of our system is that in order to est...
It has always been difficult for language understanding systems to handle spontaneous speech with satisfactory robustness, primarily due to such problems as the fragments, disflue...
Bor-shen Lin, Berlin Chen, Hsin-Min Wang, Lin-Shan...
After many successes, statistical approaches that have been popular in the parsing community are now making headway into Natural Language Generation (NLG). These systems are aimed...