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ACL
1993
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Two Kinds of Metonymy
We propose a distinction between two kinds of metonymy: "referential" metonymy, in which the referent of an NP is shifted, and "predicative" metonymy, in which...
David Stallard
ACL
1993
14 years 24 days ago
Guiding an HPSG Parser using Semantic and Pragmatic Expectations
1 Efficient natural language generation has been successfully demonstrated using highly compiled knowledge about speech acts and their related social actions. A design and prototyp...
Jim Skon
ACL
1993
14 years 24 days ago
Lexicalized Context-Free Grammars
This paper introduces a tree generating system called Lexicalized Context-Free Grammar (LCFG) and describes a cubic-time parser for it. LCFG embeds the elegance of the analyses fo...
Yves Schabes, Richard C. Waters
ACL
1993
14 years 24 days ago
Extending Kimmo's Two-Level Model of Morphology
This paper describes the problems faced while using Kimmo's two-level model to describe certain Indian languages such as Tamil and Hindi. The two-level model is shown to be d...
Anoop Sarkar
ACL
1993
14 years 24 days ago
How do we count? The Problem of Tagging Phrasal Verbs in Parts
This paper examines the current performance of the stochastic tagger PARTS (Church 88) in handling phrasal verbs, describes a problem that arises from the statistical model used, ...
Nava A. Shaked
ACL
1993
14 years 24 days ago
Identifying Relevant Prior Explanations
When human tutors engage in dialogue, they freely exploit allaspects of the mutually known context, including the previous discourse. Utterances that do not draw on previous disco...
James A. Rosenblum
ACL
1993
14 years 24 days ago
Distributional Clustering of English Words
We describe and evaluate experimentally a method for clustering words according to their distribution in particular syntactic contexts. Words are represented by the relative frequ...
Fernando C. N. Pereira, Naftali Tishby, Lillian Le...
ACL
1993
14 years 24 days ago
Intention-Based Segmentation: Human Reliability and Correlation with Linguistic Cues
Certain spans of utterances in a discourse, referred to here as segments, are widely assumedto form coherent units. Further, the segmental structure of discourse has been claimed ...
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Diane J. Litman
ACL
1993
14 years 24 days ago
A Speech-First Model for Repair Detection and Correction
Interpreting fully natural speech is an important goal for spoken language understanding systems. However, while corpus studies have shown that about 10% of spontaneous utterances...
Christine H. Nakatani, Julia Hirschberg
ACL
1993
14 years 24 days ago
Automatic Acquisition of a Large Subcategorization Dictionary from Corpora
This paper presents a new method for producing a dictionary of subcategorization frames from unlabelled text corpora. It is shown that statistical filtering of the results of a ...
Christopher D. Manning