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ACL
1997
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Learning Features that Predict Cue Usage
Our goal is to identify the features that predict the occurrence and placement of discourse cues in tutorial explanations in order to aid in the automatic generation of explanatio...
Barbara Di Eugenio, Johanna D. Moore, Massimo Paol...
ACL
1997
14 years 6 days ago
Choosing the Word Most Typical in Context Using a Lexical Co-Occurrence Network
This paper presents a partial solution to a component of the problem of lexical choice: choosing the synonym most typical, or expected, in context. We apply a new statistical appr...
Philip Edmonds
ACL
1997
14 years 6 days ago
Representing Paraphrases Using Synchronous TAGs
This paper looks at representing paraphrases using the formalism of Synchronous TAGs; it looks particularly at comparisons with machine translation and the modifications it is nec...
Marc Dras
ACL
1997
14 years 6 days ago
Deriving Verbal and Compositional Lexical Aspect for NLP Applications
Verbal and compositional lexical aspect provide the underlying temporal structure of events. Knowledge of lexical aspect, e.g., (a)telicity, is therefore required for interpreting...
Bonnie J. Dorr, Mari Broman Olsen
ACL
1997
14 years 6 days ago
Similarity-Based Methods for Word Sense Disambiguation
We compare four similarity-based estimation methods against back-off and maximum-likelihood estimation methods on a pseudo-word sense disambiguation task in which we controlled f...
Ido Dagan, Lillian Lee, Fernando C. N. Pereira
ACL
1997
14 years 6 days ago
Integrating Symbolic and Statistical Representations: The Lexicon Pragmatics Interface
We describe a formal framework for interpretation of words and compounds in a discourse context which integrates a symbolic lexicon/grammar, word-sense probabilities, and a pragma...
Ann A. Copestake, Alex Lascarides
ACL
1997
14 years 6 days ago
Three Generative, Lexicalised Models for Statistical Parsing
In this paper we first propose a new statistical parsing model, which is a generative model of lexicalised context-free grammar. We then extend the model to include a probabilisti...
Michael Collins
ACL
1997
14 years 6 days ago
Tracking Initiative in Collaborative Dialogue Interactions
In this paper, we argue for the need to distinguish between task and dialogue initiatives, and present a model for tracking shifts in both types of initiatives in dialogue interac...
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Michael K. Brown
ACL
1997
14 years 6 days ago
A Structured Language Model
A new language model for speech recognition inspired by linguistic analysis is presented. The model develops hidden hierarchical structure incrementally and uses it to extract mea...
Ciprian Chelba