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ACL
2000
14 years 24 days ago
Term Recognition Using Technical Dictionary Hierarchy
In recent years, statistical approaches on ATR (Automatic Term Recognition) have achieved good results. However, there are scopes to improve the performance in extracting terms st...
Jong-Hoon Oh, Kyung-Soon Lee, Key-Sun Choi
ACL
2000
14 years 24 days ago
Inducing Probabilistic Syllable Classes Using Multivariate Clustering
An approach to automatic detection of syllable structure is presented. We demonstrate a novel application of EM-based clustering to multivariate data, exempli ed by the induction ...
Karin Müller, Bernd Möbius, Detlef Presc...
ACL
2000
14 years 24 days ago
Memory-Efficient and Thread-Safe Quasi-Destructive Graph Unification
In terms of both speed and memory consumption, graph unification remains the most expensive component of unification-based grammar parsing. We present a technique to reduce the me...
Marcel P. van Lohuizen
ACL
2000
14 years 24 days ago
PENS: A Machine-aided English Writing System for Chinese Users
Writing English is a big barrier for most Chinese users. To build a computer-aided system that helps Chinese users not only on spelling checking and grammar checking but also on w...
Ting Liu, Ming Zhou, Jianfeng Gao, Endong Xun, Cha...
ACL
2000
14 years 24 days ago
A Polynomial-Time Fragment of Dominance Constraints
Dominance constraints are logical descriptions of trees that are widely used in computational linguistics. Their general satisfiability problem is known to be NP-complete. Here we...
Alexander Koller, Kurt Mehlhorn, Joachim Niehren
ACL
2000
14 years 24 days ago
A Constraint-based Approach to English Prosodic Constituents
The paper develops a constraint-based theory of prosodic phrasing and prominence, based on an HPSG framework, with an implementation in ALE. Prominence and juncture are represente...
Ewan Klein
ACL
2000
14 years 24 days ago
Extracting Causal Knowledge from a Medical Database Using Graphical Patterns
This paper reports the first part of a project that aims to develop a knowledge extraction and knowledge discovery system that extracts causal knowledge from textual databases. In...
Christopher S. G. Khoo, Syin Chan, Yun Niu