ACL
1997
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1997
This paper describes an approach to extract the aspectual information of Japanese verb phrases from a monolingual corpus. We classify Verbs into six categories by means of the asp...
ACL
1997
13 years 11 months ago
1997
In this paper we describe an approach to constraint based syntactic theories in terms of finite tree automata. The solutions to constraints expressed in weak monadic second order ...
ACL
1997
13 years 11 months ago
1997
We propose a unified framework in which to treat semantic underspecification and parallelism phenomena in discourse. The framework employs a constraint language that can express e...
ACL
1997
13 years 11 months ago
1997
This paper presents a method for the automatic extraction of subgrammars to control and speeding-up natural language generation NLG. The method is based on explanation-based learn...
ACL
1997
13 years 11 months ago
1997
ACL
1997
13 years 11 months ago
1997
Many multilingual NLP applications need to translate words between different languages, but cannot afford the computational expense of inducing or applying a full translation mode...
ACL
1997
13 years 11 months ago
1997
The first step in most empirical work in multilingual NLP is to construct maps of the correspondence between texts and their translations (bitext maps). The Smooth Injective Map R...
ACL
1997
13 years 11 months ago
1997
Most previous corpus-based algorithms disambiguate a word with a classifier trained from previous usages of the same word. Separate classifiers have to be trained for different wo...
ACL
1997
13 years 11 months ago
1997
This paper shows that a class of Combinatory Categorial Grammars (CCGs) augmented with a linguistically-motivated form of type raising involving variables is weakly equivalent to ...
ACL
1997
13 years 11 months ago
1997
Telegraphic messages with numerous instances of omission pose a new challenge to parsing in that a sentence with omission causes a higher degree of ambi6uity than a sentence witho...