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ACL
1994
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Decision Lists for Lexical Ambiguity Resolution: Application to Accent Restoration in Spanish and French
This paper presents a statistical decision procedure for lexical ambiguity resolution. The algorithm exploits both local syntactic patterns and more distant collocational evidence...
David Yarowsky
ACL
1996
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An Efficient Compiler for Weighted Rewrite Rules
Context-dependent rewrite rules are used in many areas of natural language and speech processing. Work in computational phonology has demonstrated that, given certain conditions, ...
Mehryar Mohri, Richard Sproat
ACL
1996
14 years 5 days ago
Magic for Filter Optimization in Dynamic Bottom-up Processing
Off-line compilation of logic grammars using Magic allows an incorporation of filtering into the logic underlying the grammar. The explicit definite clause characterization of fil...
Guido Minnen
ACL
1994
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An Automatic Treebank Conversion Algorithm for Corpus Sharing
An automatic treebank conversion method is proposed in this paper to convert a treebank into another treebank. A new treebank associated with a different grammar can be generated ...
Jong-Nae Wang, Jing-Shin Chang, Keh-Yih Su
ACL
1996
14 years 5 days ago
Linguistic Structure as Composition and Perturbation
This paper discusses the problem of learning language from unprocessed text and speech signals, concentrating on the problem of learning a lexicon. In particular, it argues for a ...
Carl de Marcken
ACL
1996
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A Fully Statistical Approach to Natural Language Interfaces
We present a natural language interface system which is based entirely on trained statistical models. The system consists of three stages of processing: parsing, semantic interpre...
Scott Miller, David Stallard, Robert J. Bobrow, Ri...
ACL
1994
14 years 5 days ago
Dual-Coding Theory and Connectionist Lexical Selection
We introduce the bilingual dual-coding theory as a model for bilingual mental representation. Based on this model, lexical selection neural networks are implemented for a connecti...
Ye-Yi Wang
ACL
1994
14 years 5 days ago
Discourse Obligations in Dialogue Processing
We show that in modeling social interaction, particularly dialogue, the attitude of obligation can be a useful adjunct to the popularly considered attitudes of belief, goal, and i...
David R. Traum, James F. Allen
ACL
1996
14 years 5 days ago
Unsupervised Learning of Word-Category Guessing Rules
Words unknown to the lexicon present a substantial problem to part-of-speech tagging. In this paper we present a technique for fully unsupervised statistical acquisition of rules ...
Andrei Mikheev