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ACL
1998
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Some Properties of Preposition and Subordinate Conjunction Attachments
Determining the attachments of prepositions and subordinate conjunctions is a key problem in parsing natural language. This paper presents a trainable approach to making these att...
Alexander S. Yeh, Marc B. Vilain
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Combination of an Automatic and an Interactive Disambiguation Method
In natural language processing, many methods have been proposed to solve the ambiguity problems. In this paper, we propose a technique to combine a method of interactive disambigu...
Masaya Yamaguchi, Takeyuki Kojima, Nobuo Inui, Yos...
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
A Model for Robust Processing of Spontaneous Speech by Integrating Viable Fragments
We describe the design and function of a robust processing component which is being developed for the Verbmobil speech translation system. Its task consists of collecting partial ...
Karsten L. Worm
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Word Sense Disambiguation using Optimised Combinations of Knowledge Sources
Word sense disambiguation algorithms, with few exceptions, have made use of only one lexical knowledge source. We describe a system which t)erforms word sense disambiguation on al...
Yorick Wilks, Mark Stevenson
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Head-Driven Generation with HPSG
As HPSG is head-driven, with clear semantic heads, semantic head-driven generation should be simple. We adapt van Noord's Prolog generator for use with an HPSG grammar in Pro...
Graham Wilcock, Yuji Matsumoto
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Translating Idioms
This paper discusses the treatment of fixed word expressions developed for our ITS-2 FrenchEnglish translation system. This treatment makes a clear distinction between compounds -...
Eric Wehrli
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
A Pattern-Based Machine Translation System Extended by Example-Based Processing
In this paper, we describe a machine translation system called PalmTree which uses the "patternbased" approach as a fundamental framework. The pure pattern-based transla...
Hideo Watanabe, Koichi Takeda
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Aligning Articles in TV Newscasts and Newspapers
It is important to use pattern information (e.g. TV newscasts) and textual information (e.g. newspapers) together. For this purpose, we describe a method for aligning articles in ...
Yasuhiko Watanabe, Yoshihiro Okada, Kengo Kaneji, ...
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Using Leading Text for News Summaries: Evaluation Results and Implications for Commercial Summarization Applications
Leading text extracts created to support some online Boolean retrieval goals are evaluated for their acceptability as news document summaries. Results are presented and discussed ...
Mark Wasson