This paper describes a language independent method for alignment of parallel texts that makes use of homograph tokens for each pair of languages. In order to filter out tokens tha...
This paper reports the first part of a project that aims to develop a knowledge extraction and knowledge discovery system that extracts causal knowledge from textual databases. In...
Spoken dialogue managers have benefited from using stochastic planners such as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). However, so far, MDPs do not handle well noisy and ambiguous speec...
This paper presents a novel statistical model for automatic identification of English baseNP. It uses two steps: the Nbest Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagging and baseNP identification g...
We present an LFG-DOP parser which uses fragments from LFG-annotated sentences to parse new sentences. Experiments with the Verbmobil and Homecentre corpora show that (1) Viterbi ...