ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
Any large language processing software relies in its operation on heuristic decisions concerning the strategy of processing. These decisions are usually "hard-wired" int...
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
In this paper we specifically address questions of polysemy with respect to verbs, and how regular extensions of meaning can be achieved through the adjunction of particular synta...
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
In this paper, we propose a generalization of Centering Theory (CT) (Grosz, Joshi, Weinstein 1995) called Veins Theory (VT), which extends the applicability of centering rules fro...
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
An essential step in comparative reconstruction is to align corresponding phonological segments in the words being compared. To do this, one must search among huge numbers of pote...
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
The paper presents a tabular interpretation for a kind of 2-Stack Automata. These automata may be used to describe various parsing strategies, ranging from purely top-down to pure...
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
This paper describes a domain independent, automatically trained call router which directs customer calls based on their response to an open-ended "How may I direct your call...
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
In this study, a learning device based on the PATtree data structures was developed. The original PAT-trees were enhanced with the deletion function to emulate human learning comp...
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
Recently, language barrier becomes the major problem for people to search, retrieve, and understand WWW documents in different languages. This paper deals with query translation i...