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ACL
1992
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A Connectionist Parser for Structure Unification Grammar
This paper presents a connectionist syntactic parser which uses Structure Unification Grammar as its grammatical framework. The parser is implemented in a connectionist architectu...
James Henderson
ACL
1992
14 years 21 days ago
SEXTANT: Exploring Unexplored Contexts for Semantic Extraction from Syntactic Analysis
For a very long time, it has been considered that the only way of automatically extracting similar groups of words from a text collection for which no semantic information exists ...
Gregory Grefenstette
ACL
1992
14 years 21 days ago
Conversational Implicatures in Indirect Replies
I In this paper we present algorithms for the interpretation and generation of a kind of particularized conversational implicature occurring in certain indirect replies. Our algori...
Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry
ACL
1992
14 years 21 days ago
An Algorithm for VP Ellipsis
An algorithm is proposed to determine antecedents for VP ellipsis. The algorithm eliminates impossible antecedents, and then imposes a preference ordering on possible antecedents....
Daniel Hardt
ACL
1992
14 years 21 days ago
Would I Lie to You? Modelling Misrepresentation and Context in Dialogue
In this paper we discuss a mechanism for modifying context in a tutorial dialogue. The context mechanism imposes a pedagogically motivated misrepresentation (PMM) on a dialogue to...
Carl Gutwin, Gordon I. McCalla
ACL
1992
14 years 21 days ago
Estimating Upper and Lower Bounds on the Performance of Word-Sense Disambiguation Programs
We have recently reported on two new word-sense disambiguation systems, one trained on bilingual material (the Canadian Hansards) and the other trained on monolingual material (Ro...
William A. Gale, Kenneth Ward Church, David Yarows...
ACL
1992
14 years 21 days ago
Understanding Natural Language Instructions: The Case of Purpose Clauses
This paper presents an analysis of purpose clauses in the context of instruction understanding. Such analysis shows that goals affect the interpretation and / or execution of acti...
Barbara Di Eugenio
ACL
1992
14 years 21 days ago
Handling Linear Precedence Constraints by Unification
Linear precedence (LP) rules are widely used for stating word order principles. They have been adopted as constraints by HPSG but no encoding in the formalism has been provided. S...
Judith Engelkamp, Gregor Erbach, Hans Uszkoreit