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ACL
1993
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Distributional Clustering of English Words
We describe and evaluate experimentally a method for clustering words according to their distribution in particular syntactic contexts. Words are represented by the relative frequ...
Fernando C. N. Pereira, Naftali Tishby, Lillian Le...
ACL
1993
14 years 1 months ago
Intention-Based Segmentation: Human Reliability and Correlation with Linguistic Cues
Certain spans of utterances in a discourse, referred to here as segments, are widely assumedto form coherent units. Further, the segmental structure of discourse has been claimed ...
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Diane J. Litman
ACL
1993
14 years 1 months ago
A Speech-First Model for Repair Detection and Correction
Interpreting fully natural speech is an important goal for spoken language understanding systems. However, while corpus studies have shown that about 10% of spontaneous utterances...
Christine H. Nakatani, Julia Hirschberg
ACL
1993
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of a Large Subcategorization Dictionary from Corpora
This paper presents a new method for producing a dictionary of subcategorization frames from unlabelled text corpora. It is shown that statistical filtering of the results of a ...
Christopher D. Manning
ACL
1993
14 years 1 months ago
Tailoring Lexical Choice to the User's Vocabulary in Multimedia Explanation Generation
In this paper, we discussthe differentstrategiesusedin COMET (COordinated Multimedia Explanation Testbed) for selecting words withwhichthe user is familiar. Whenpicturescannotbe u...
Kathleen McKeown, Jacques Robin, Michael A. Tanenb...
ACL
1993
14 years 1 months ago
Feature-Based Allomorphy
Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Hannes Pirker, John Nerbonne
ACL
1993
14 years 1 months ago
Principle-Based Parsing without Overgeneration
Overgeneration is the main source of computational complexity in previous principle-based parsers. This paper presents a message passing algorithm for principle-based parsing that...
Dekang Lin
ACL
1993
14 years 1 months ago
An Algorithm for finding Noun Phrase Correspondences in Bilingual Corpora
The paper describes an algorithm that employs English and French text taggers to associate noun phrases in an aligned bilingual corpus. The taggets provide part-of-speech categori...
Julian Kupiec
ACL
1993
14 years 1 months ago
The Effect of Establishing Coherence in Ellipsis and Anaphora Resolution
This paper presents a new model of anaphoric processing that utilizes the establishment of coherence relations between clauses in a discourse. We survey data that comprises a curr...
Andrew Kehler