ACL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
1996
This paper proposes the use of "patternbased" context-free grammars as a basis for building machine translation (MT) systems, which are now being adopted as personal too...
ACL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
1996
We extend the centering model for the resolution of intia-sentential anaphora and specify how to handle complex sentences. An empirical evaluation indicates that the functional in...
ACL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
1996
We report on a method for compiling decision trees into weighted finite-state transducers. The key assumptions are that the tree predictions specify how to rewrite symbols from an...
ACL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
1996
In transformation-based parsing, a finite sequence of tree rewriting rules are checked for application to an input structure. Since in practice only a small percentage of rules ar...
ACL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
1996
This paper describes the incremental generation of parse tables for the LR-type parsing of Tree Adjoining Languages (TALs). The algorithm presented handles modi cations to the inp...
ACL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
1996
This paper presents an architecture for the generation of spoken monologues with contextually appropriate intonation. A twotiered information structure representation is used in t...
ACL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
1996
This paper presents a quantitative evaluation of the portability to the stock market domain of the revision rule hierarchy used by the system STREAKto incrementally generate newsw...
ACL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
1996
We show how a general grammar may be automatically adapted for fast parsing of utterances from a specific domain by means of constituent pruning and grammar specialization based o...
ACL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
1996
ACL
1996
13 years 11 months ago
1996
In this paper, we present a new approach for word sense disambiguation (WSD) using an exemplar-based learning algorithm. This approach integrates a diverse set of knowledge source...