AnswerFinder combines lexical, syntactic, and semantic information in various stages of the question answering process. The candidate sentences are preselected on the basis of (i)...
We present an unsupervised method for canonicalizing joshi (postpositions) in Japanese. Some postpositions in Japanese do not specify semantic roles explicitly as case markers do,...
Discourse connectives are words or phrases such as once, since, and on the contrary that explicitly signal the presence of a discourse relation. There are two types of ambiguity t...
This paper describes an approach to providing lexical information for natural language processing in unrestricted domains. A system of approximately 1200 morphological rules is us...
Abstract. We present a linguistically-motivated sub-sentential alignment system that extends the intersected IBM Model 4 word alignments. The alignment system is chunk-driven and r...