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ACL
1997
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An Alignment Method for Noisy Parallel Corpora based on Image Processing Techniques
This paper presents a new approach to bitext correspondence problem (BCP) of noisy bilingual corpora based on image processing (IP) techniques. By using one of several ways of est...
Jason S. Chang, Mathis H. M. Chen
ACL
1997
14 years 25 days ago
Co-evolution of Language and of the Language Acquisition Device
A new account of parameter setting during grammatical acquisition is presented in terms of Generalized Categorial Grammar embedded in a default inheritance hierarchy, providing a ...
Ted Briscoe
ACL
1997
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A DOP Model for Semantic Interpretation
In data-oriented language processing, an annotated language corpus is used as a stochastic grammar. The most probable analysis of a new sentence is constructed by combining fragme...
Remko Bonnema, Rens Bod, Remko Scha
ACL
1997
14 years 25 days ago
A Model of Lexical Attraction and Repulsion
This paper introduces new methods based on exponential families for modeling the correlations between words in text and speech. While previous work assumed the effects of word co-...
Doug Beeferman, Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
ACL
1998
14 years 25 days ago
Word Association and MI-TRigger-based Language Modeling
There exists strong word association in natural language. Based on mutual information, this paper proposes a new MI-Trigger-based modeling approach to capture the preferred relati...
Guodong Zhou, Kimteng Lua
ACL
1998
14 years 25 days ago
Dialect MT: A Case Study between Cantonese and Mandarin
Machine Translation (MT) need not be confined to inter-language activities. In this paper, we discuss inter-dialect MT in general and Cantonese-Mandarin MT in particular. Mandarin...
Xiaoheng Zhang
ACL
1998
14 years 25 days ago
Using Chunk Based Partial Parsing of Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains for Reducing Word Error Rate in Speech Recogniti
In this paper, we present a chunk based partial parsing system for spontaneous, conversational speech in unrestricted domains. We show that the chunk parses produced by this parsi...
Klaus Zechner, Alex Waibel
ACL
1998
14 years 25 days ago
Automatic Construction of Frame Representations for Spontaneous Speech in Unrestricted Domains
This paper presents a system which automatically generates shallow semantic frame structures for conversational speech in unrestricted domains. We argue that such shallow semantic...
Klaus Zechner
ACL
1998
14 years 25 days ago
Evaluation of Importance of Sentences based on Connectivity to Title
Takehiko Yoshimi, Toshiyuki Okunishi, Takahiro Yam...