In general, a certain range of sentences in a text, is widely assumed to form a coherent unit which is called a discourse segment. Identifying the segment boundaries is a first st...
Systems that attempt to understand natural human input make mistakes, even humans. However, humans avoid misunderstandings by confirming doubtful input. Multimodal systems--those ...
We believe that language is a complex adaptive system that emerges from adaptive interactions between language users and continues to evolve and adapt through repeated interaction...
The paper investigates the problem of providing a formal device for the dependency approach to syntax, and to link it with a parsing model. After reviewing the basic tenets of the...
Lexical selection is a significant problem for widecoverage machine translation: depending on the context, a given source language word can often be translated into different targ...
We present a method for automatically identifying verbal participation in diathesis alternations. Automatically acquired subcategorization frames are compared to a hand-crafted cl...
This paper describes the design and application of time-enhanced, finite state models of discourse cues to the automated segmentation of broadcast news. We describe our analysis o...
While the notion of a cooperative response has been the focus of considerable research in natural language dialogue systems, there has been little empirical work demonstrating how...
Rich mark-up can considerably benefit the process of establishing bitext correspondences, that is, the task of providing correct identification and alignment methods for text segm...
This paper reports a pilot study, in which Constraint Grammar inspiredruleswere learnt using the Progol machine-learning system. Rules discarding faulty readings of ambiguously ta...