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ACL
1994
14 years 26 days ago
Decision Lists for Lexical Ambiguity Resolution: Application to Accent Restoration in Spanish and French
This paper presents a statistical decision procedure for lexical ambiguity resolution. The algorithm exploits both local syntactic patterns and more distant collocational evidence...
David Yarowsky
ACL
1994
14 years 26 days ago
An Automatic Treebank Conversion Algorithm for Corpus Sharing
An automatic treebank conversion method is proposed in this paper to convert a treebank into another treebank. A new treebank associated with a different grammar can be generated ...
Jong-Nae Wang, Jing-Shin Chang, Keh-Yih Su
ACL
1994
14 years 26 days ago
Dual-Coding Theory and Connectionist Lexical Selection
We introduce the bilingual dual-coding theory as a model for bilingual mental representation. Based on this model, lexical selection neural networks are implemented for a connecti...
Ye-Yi Wang
ACL
1994
14 years 26 days ago
Discourse Obligations in Dialogue Processing
We show that in modeling social interaction, particularly dialogue, the attitude of obligation can be a useful adjunct to the popularly considered attitudes of belief, goal, and i...
David R. Traum, James F. Allen
ACL
1994
14 years 26 days ago
A Corpus-Based Approach to Automatic Compound Extraction
An automatic compound retrieval method is proposed to extract compounds within a text message. It uses n-gram mutual information, relative frequency count and parts of speech as t...
Keh-Yih Su, Ming-Wen Wu, Jing-Shin Chang
ACL
1994
14 years 26 days ago
Precise N-Gram Probabilities from Stochastic Context-Free Grammars
We present an algorithm for computing n-gram probabilities from stochastic context-free grammars, a procedure that can alleviate some of the standard problems associated with n-gr...
Andreas Stolcke, Jonathan Segal
ACL
1994
14 years 26 days ago
A Stochastic Finite-State Word-Segmentation Algorithm for Chinese
We present a stochastic finite-state model for segmenting Chinese text into dictionary entries and productively derived words, and providing pronunciations for these words; the me...
Richard Sproat, Chilin Shih, William Gale, Nancy C...
ACL
1994
14 years 26 days ago
Part-of-Speech Tagging using a Variable Memory Markov Model
Wepresent a new approachtodisambiguatingsyntactically ambiguous words in context, based on Variable Memory Markov (VMM) models. In contrast to xed-length Markovmodels,whichpredict...
Hinrich Schütze, Yoram Singer