This paper proposes a method for generating a logicalconstraint-based internal representation from a unification grammar formalism with disjunctive information. Unification gramma...
This paper describes an all level approach on statistical natural language translation (SNLT). Without any predefined knowledge the system learns a statistical translation lexicon...
Recently manuals of industrial products become large and often consist of separated volumes. In reading such individual but related manuals, we must consider the relation among se...
Knowledge acquisition is a serious bottleneck for natural language understanding systems. For this reason, large-scale linguistic resources have been compiled and made available b...
Lewis M. Norton, Deborah A. Dahl, Li Li, Katharine...
We present a novel OCR error correction method for languages without word delimiters that have a large character set, such as Japanese and Chinese. It consists of a statistical OC...
The GDA (Global Document Annotation) project proposes a tag set which allows machines to automatically infer the underlying semantic/pragmatic structure of documents. Its objectiv...
In machine translation and man-machine dialogue, it is important to clarify referents of noun phrases. We present a method for determining the referents of noun phrases in Japanes...
: The goal of this paper is to provide computable account for some definite descriptions. To this end, we define in terms of inclusion the notion of distinguishing description and ...
This paper introduces Boas, a semi-automatic knowledge elicitation system that guides a team of two people through the process of developing the static knowledge sources for a mod...
In this paper, we present a stochastic language model for Japanese using dependency. The prediction unit in thismodel isallattributeof "bunsetsu". This isrepresented by ...