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ACL
1998
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Detecting Verbal Participation in Diathesis Alternations
We present a method for automatically identifying verbal participation in diathesis alternations. Automatically acquired subcategorization frames are compared to a hand-crafted cl...
Diana McCarthy, Anna Korhonen
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Discourse Cues for Broadcast News Segmentation
This paper describes the design and application of time-enhanced, finite state models of discourse cues to the automated segmentation of broadcast news. We describe our analysis o...
Mark T. Maybury
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating Response Strategies in a Web-Based Spoken Dialogue Agent
While the notion of a cooperative response has been the focus of considerable research in natural language dialogue systems, there has been little empirical work demonstrating how...
Diane J. Litman, Shimei Pan, Marilyn A. Walker
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Bitext Correspondences through Rich Mark-up
Rich mark-up can considerably benefit the process of establishing bitext correspondences, that is, the task of providing correct identification and alignment methods for text segm...
Raquel Martínez, Joseba Abaitua, Arantza Ca...
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Learning Constraint Grammar-style Disambiguation Rules using Inductive Logic Programming
This paper reports a pilot study, in which Constraint Grammar inspiredruleswere learnt using the Progol machine-learning system. Rules discarding faulty readings of ambiguously ta...
Nikolaj Lindberg, Martin Eineborg
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Compacting the Penn Treebank Grammar
Treebanks, such as the Penn Treebank (PTB), offer a simple approach to obtaining a broad coverage grammar: one can simply read the grammar off the parse trees in the treebank. Whi...
Alexander Krotov, Mark Hepple, Robert J. Gaizauska...
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Large Scale Collocation Data and Their Application to Japanese Word Processor Technology
Word processors or computers used in Japan employ Japanese input method through keyboard stroke combined with Kana (phonetic) character to Kanji (ideographic, Chinese) character c...
Yasuo Koyama, Masako Yasutake, Kenji Yoshimura, Ko...
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Retrieval and Clustering of Similar Words
Bootstrapping semantics from text is one of the greatest challenges in natural language learning. We first define a word similarity measure based on the distributional pattern of ...
Dekang Lin
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
A Test Environment for Natural Language Understanding Systems
The Natural Language Understanding Engine Test Environment (ETE) is a GUI software tool that aids in the development and maintenance of large, modular, natural language understand...
Li Li, Deborah A. Dahl, Lewis M. Norton, Marcia C....