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ACL
1989
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Two Constraints on Speech Act Ambiguity
Existing plan-based theories of speech act interpretation do not account for the conventional aspect of speech acts. We use patterns of linguistic features (e.g. mood, verb form, ...
Elizabeth A. Hinkelman, James F. Allen
ACL
1989
13 years 11 months ago
The Effects of Interaction on Spoken Discourse
Near-term spoken language systems willlikely be limited in their interactive capabilities. To design them, we shall need to model how the presence or absence of speaker interactio...
Sharon L. Oviatt, Philip R. Cohen
ACL
1989
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of the Lexical Semantics of Verbs from Sentence Frames
This paper presents a computational model ofverb acquisitionwhich uses what we willcallthe principle of structured overeommitment to eliminate the need for negative evidence. The ...
Mort Webster, Mitchell P. Marcus
EACL
1989
ACL Anthology
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The Syntactic Regularity Of English Noun Phrases
Approximately, 10,000 naturally occurring noun phrases taken from the LOB corpus were used firstly, to evaluate the NP component of the Alvey ANLT grammar (Grover et al., 1987, 19...
Lita Taylor, Claire Grover, Ted Briscoe
ACL
1989
13 years 11 months ago
The Structure of Shared Forests in Ambiguous Parsing
The Context-Free backbone of some natural language analyzers produces all possible CF parses as some kind of shared forest, from which a single tree is to be chosen by a disambigu...
Sylvie Billot, Bernard Lang