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ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Modeling with Structures in Statistical Machine Translation
Most statistical machine translation systems employ a word-based alignment model. In this paper we demonstrate that word-based alignment is a major cause of translation errors. We...
Ye-Yi Wang, Alex Waibel
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Learning Optimal Dialogue Strategies: A Case Study of a Spoken Dialogue Agent for Email
This paper describes a novel method by which a dialogue agent can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy. While it is widely agreed that dialogue strategies should be formul...
Marilyn A. Walker, Jeanne Frommer, Shrikanth Naray...
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Project for Production of Closed-Caption TV Programs for the Hearing Impaired
We describe an on-going project whose primary aim is to establish the technology of producing closed captions for TV news programs efficiently using natural language processing an...
Takahiro Wakao, Eiji Sawamura, Terumasa Ehara, Ich...
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
The Computational Lexical Semantics of Syntagmatic Relations
In this paper, we address the issue of syntagmatic expressions from a computational lexical semantic perspective. From a representational viewpoint, we argue for a hybrid approach...
Evelyne Viegas, Stephen Beale, Sergei Nirenburg
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
General-to-Specific Model Selection for Subcategorization Preference
This paper proposes a novel method for learning probability models of subcategorization preference of verbs. We consider the issues of case dependencies and noun class generalizat...
Takehito Utsuro, Takashi Miyata, Yuji Matsumoto
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Automatically Creating Bilingual Lexicons for Machine Translation from Bilingual Text
A method is presented for automatically augmenting the bilingual lexicon of an existing Machine Translation system, by extracting bilingual entries from aligned bilingual text. Th...
Davide Turcato
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Predicting Part-of-Speech Information about Unknown Words using Statistical Methods
This paper examines the feasibility of using statistical methods to train a part-of-speech predictor for unknown words. By using statistical methods, without incorporating hand-cr...
Scott M. Thede
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Coherence in Spoken Discourse
Heike Tappe, Frank Schilder