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COLING
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Multilingual Alignments by Monolingual String Differences
We propose a method to obtain subsentential alignments from several languages simultaneously. The method handles several languages at once, and avoids the complexity explosion due...
Adrien Lardilleux, Yves Lepage
COLING
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Underspecified Modelling of Complex Discourse Constraints
We introduce a new type of discourse constraints for the interaction of discourse relations with the configuration of discourse segments. We examine corpus-extracted examples as s...
Markus Egg, Michaela Regneri
COLING
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Generation under Space Constraints
Reasoning about how much to generate when space is limited is a challenge for generation systems. This paper presents two algorithms that exploit the discourse structure to decide...
Cécile Paris, Nathalie Colineau, Andrew Lam...
COLING
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Hindi Compound Verbs and their Automatic Extraction
We analyse Hindi complex predicates and propose linguistic tests for their detection. This analysis enables us to identify a category of V+V complex predicates called lexical comp...
Debasri Chakrabarti, Hemang Mandalia, Ritwik Priya...
COLING
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Construction of an Infrastructure for Providing Users with Suitable Language Resources
Our research organization has been constructing a large scale database named SHACHI by collecting detailed meta information on language resources (LRs) in Asia and Western countri...
Hitomi Tohyama, Shunsuke Kozawa, Kiyotaka Uchimoto...
COLING
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Sentence Compression as a Step in Summarization or an Alternative Path in Text Shortening
The originality of this work leads in tackling text compression using an unsupervised method, based on a deep linguistic analysis, and without resorting on a learning corpus. This...
Mehdi Yousfi Monod, Violaine Prince
COLING
2008
13 years 11 months ago
A Scalable MMR Approach to Sentence Scoring for Multi-Document Update Summarization
We present SMMR, a scalable sentence scoring method for query-oriented update summarization. Sentences are scored thanks to a criterion combining query relevance and dissimilarity...
Florian Boudin, Marc El-Bèze, Juan Manuel T...
COLING
2008
13 years 11 months ago
Explaining Similarity of Terms
Computing the similarity between entities is a core component of many NLP tasks such as measuring the semantic similarity of terms for generating a distributional thesaurus. In th...
Vishnu Vyas, Patrick Pantel