Spoken dialogue managers have benefited from using stochastic planners such as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). However, so far, MDPs do not handle well noisy and ambiguous speec...
Abstract Resource adaptlvity" Because the sets of strucNatural language parsing is conceived to be a procedure of disambiguation, which successively reduces an initially total...
We present a clustering algorithm for Arabic words sharing the same root. Root based clusters can substitute dictionaries in indexing for IR. Modifying Adamson and Boreham (1974),...
One of the major problems when translating from Japanese into a European language such as German or English is to determine definiteness of noun phrases in order to choose the cor...
In this paper, a computational approach for resolving zero-pronouns in Spanish texts is proposed. Our approach has been evaluated with partial parsing of the text and the results ...
The definitions of the basic concepts, rules, and constraints of centering theory involve underspecified notions such as `previous utterance', `realization', and `rankin...
This paper describes novel and practical Japanese parsers that uses decision trees. First, we construct a single decision tree to estimate modification probabilities; how one phra...
This paper reports the results of a preliminary experiment on the detection of semantic variants of terms in a French technical document. The general goal of our work is to help t...
We present a new approach to stochastic modeling of constraintbased grammars that is based on loglinear models and uses EM for estimation from unannotated data. The techniques are...
Stefan Riezler, Detlef Prescher, Jonas Kuhn, Mark ...