This paper demonstrates that generating arguments in natural language requires at an abstract level, and that the ate abstraction cannot be captured by approaches based solely upo...
The view that communication is a form of action serving a variety of specific functions has had a tremendous impact on the philosophy of language and on computational linguistics....
This paper presents a novel type of intelligent agent with a multilingual natural language interface, which retrieves information from within a Web site. This agent, named JaBot a...
This paper proposes a new class-based method to estimate the strength of association in word co-occurrence for the purpose of structural disambiguation. To deal with sparseness of...
In this paper, we report on an effort to provide a general-purpose spoken language generation tool for Concept-to-Speech (CTS) applications by extending a widely used text generat...
We present a new LR algorithm for treeadjoining grammars. It is an alternative to an existing algorithm that is shown to be incorrect. Furthermore, the new algorithm is much simpl...
This paper describes a method for recognizing coherence relations between clauses which are linked by te in Japanese -- a translational equivalent of English and. We consider that...