Ambiguity is the fundamental property of natural language. Perhaps, the most burdensome case of ambiguity manifests itself on the syntactic level of analysis. In order to face up ...
Abstract. We define Probabilistic Constrained W-grammars (PCWgrammars), a two-level formalism capable of capturing grammatical frameworks used in two state of the art parsers, nam...
In this paper, we propose adding long-term grammatical information in a Whole Sentence Maximun Entropy Language Model (WSME) in order to improve the performance of the model. The ...
Deviation is a recent constraint to balance a set of variables with respect to a given mean. We show that the propagators recently introduced are not bound-consistent when the mean...
Integration of new utterances into context is a central task in any model for rational (human-machine) dialogues in natural language. In this paper, a pragmatics-first approach to...