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ACL
1998
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Word Association and MI-TRigger-based Language Modeling
There exists strong word association in natural language. Based on mutual information, this paper proposes a new MI-Trigger-based modeling approach to capture the preferred relati...
Guodong Zhou, Kimteng Lua
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin
Machine Translation (MT) need not be confined to inter-language activities. In this paper, we discuss inter-dialect MT in general and Cantonese-Mandarin MT in particular. Mandarin...
Xiaoheng Zhang
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains for Reducing Word Error Rate in Speech Recogniti
In this paper, we present a chunk based partial parsing system for spontaneous, conversational speech in unrestricted domains. We show that the chunk parses produced by this parsi...
Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Construction of Frame Representations for Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains
This paper presents a system which automatically generates shallow semantic frame structures for conversational speech in unrestricted domains. We argue that such shallow semantic...
Klaus Zechner
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluation of Importance of Sentences based on Connectivity to Title
Takehiko Yoshimi, Toshiyuki Okunishi, Takahiro Yam...
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Some Properties of Preposition and Subordinate Conjunction Attachments
Determining the attachments of prepositions and subordinate conjunctions is a key problem in parsing natural language. This paper presents a trainable approach to making these att...
Alexander S. Yeh, Marc B. Vilain
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Combination of an Automatic and an Interactive Disambiguation Method
In natural language processing, many methods have been proposed to solve the ambiguity problems. In this paper, we propose a technique to combine a method of interactive disambigu...
Masaya Yamaguchi, Takeyuki Kojima, Nobuo Inui, Yos...
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
A Model for Robust Processing of Spontaneous Speech by Integrating Viable Fragments
We describe the design and function of a robust processing component which is being developed for the Verbmobil speech translation system. Its task consists of collecting partial ...
Karsten L. Worm
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Word Sense Disambiguation using Optimised Combinations of Knowledge Sources
Word sense disambiguation algorithms, with few exceptions, have made use of only one lexical knowledge source. We describe a system which t)erforms word sense disambiguation on al...
Yorick Wilks, Mark Stevenson
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Head-Driven Generation with HPSG
As HPSG is head-driven, with clear semantic heads, semantic head-driven generation should be simple. We adapt van Noord's Prolog generator for use with an HPSG grammar in Pro...
Graham Wilcock, Yuji Matsumoto