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ACL
1998
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Natural Language Access to Software Applications
This paper reports on the ESPRIT project MELISSA (Methods and Tools for NaturalLanguage Interfacing with Standard Software
Paul Schmidt, Sibylle Rieder, Axel Theofilidis, Ma...
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
A Cognitive Model of Coherence-Driven Story Comprehension
Current models of story comprehension have three major deficiencies: (1) lack of experimental support for the inference processes they involve (e.g. reliance on prediction); (2) i...
Elliot Smith
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Learning Tense Translation from Bilingual Corpora
This paper studies and evaluates disambiguation strategies for the translation of tense between German and English, using a bilingual corpus of appointment scheduling dialogues. I...
Michael Schiehlen
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Restrictions on Tree Adjoining Languages
Several methods are known for parsing languages generated by Tree Adjoining Grammars (TAGs) in O(n 6) worst case running time. In this paper we investigate which restrictions on T...
Giorgio Satta, William Schuler
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Maximum Entropy Model Learning of the Translation Rules
This paper proposes a learning method of translation rules from parallel corpora. This method applies the maximum entropy principle to a probabilistic model of translation rules. ...
Kengo Sato, Masakazu Nakanishi
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Conditions on Consistency of Probabilistic Tree Adjoining Grammars
Much of the power of probabilistic methods in modelling language comes from their ability to compare several derivations for the same string in the language. An important starting...
Anoop Sarkar
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
The Production of Code-Mixed Discourse
We propose a comprehensive theory of codemixed discourse, encompassing equivalencepoint and insertional code-switching, palindromic constructions and lexical borrowing. The starti...
David Sankoff
ACL
1998
14 years 6 days ago
Ranking Text Units According to Textual Saliency, Connectivity and Topic Aptness
An efficient use of lexical cohesion is described for ranking text units according to their contribution in defining the meaning of a text (textual saliency), their ability to for...
Antonio Sanfilippo