This paper attacks a Japanese syllable-substitution cipher. We use a probabilistic, noisy-channel framework, exploiting various Japanese language models to drive the decipherment. ...
In the line of some earlier work done on belief dynamics, we an abstract model of belief propagation on a graph based on the methodology of the revision theory of truth. A modal la...
Nonmonotonic logic is a branch of logic that has been developed to model situations with incomplete information. We argue that there is a connection between AOP and nonmonotonic l...
Abstract. The computation of the probability of string generation according to stochastic grammars given only some of the symbols that compose it underlies pattern recognition prob...
We present and compare two approaches to the task of summarizing evaluative arguments. The first is a sentence extractionbased approach while the second is a language generation-b...