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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...