ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
This paper describes automatic techniques for mapping 9611 entries in a database of English verbs to WordNet senses. The verbs were initially grouped into 491 classes based on syn...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
We present conditions under which verb phrases are elided based on a corpus of positive and negative examples. Factor that affect verb phrase ellipsis include: the distance betwee...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
This paper presents an open-domain textual Question-Answering system that uses several feedback loops to enhance its performance. These feedback loops combine in a new way statist...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
A hybrid system is described which combines the strength of manual rulewriting and statistical learning, obtaining results superior to both methods if applied separately. The comb...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
We offer a computational analysis of the resolution of ellipsis in certain cases of dialogue clarification. We show that this goes beyond standard techniques used in anaphora and ...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
A good decoding algorithm is critical to the success of any statistical machine translation system. The decoder's job is to find the translation that is most likely according...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
This paper proposes a description of German word order including phenomena considered as complex, such as scrambling, (partial) VP fronting and verbal pied piping. Our description...
ACL
2001
14 years 28 days ago
2001
We describe the use of XML tokenisation, tagging and mark-up tools to prepare a corpus for parsing. Our techniques are generally applicable but here on parsing Medline abstracts w...