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ACL
2000
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Extracting Causal Knowledge from a Medical Database Using Graphical Patterns
This paper reports the first part of a project that aims to develop a knowledge extraction and knowledge discovery system that extracts causal knowledge from textual databases. In...
Christopher S. G. Khoo, Syin Chan, Yun Niu
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Combining a Chinese Thesaurus with a Chinese Dictionary
Dong-Hong Ji, Jun-ping Gong, Changning Huang
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
A Text Input Front-end Processor as an Information Access Platform
This paper presents a practical foreign language writing support tool which makes it much easier to utilize dictionary and example sentence resources. Like a Kana-Kanji conversion...
Shinichi Doi, Shin-ichiro Kamei, Kiyoshi Yamabana
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Error Driven Word Sense Disambiguation
In this paper we describe a method for performing word sense disambiguation (WSD). The method relies on unsupervised learning and exploits functional relations among words as prod...
Luca Dini, Vittorio Di Tomaso, Frédé...
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Experiments with Learning Parsing Heuristics
Any large language processing software relies in its operation on heuristic decisions concerning the strategy of processing. These decisions are usually "hard-wired" int...
Sylvain Delisle, Sylvain Létourneau, Stan M...
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Investigating Regular Sense Extensions Based on Intersective Levin Classes
In this paper we specifically address questions of polysemy with respect to verbs, and how regular extensions of meaning can be achieved through the adjunction of particular synta...
Hoa Trang Dang, Karin Kipper, Martha Stone Palmer,...
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Semantic Tagging of Unknown Proper Names
Alessandro Cucchiarelli, Danilo Luzi, Paola Velard...
ACL
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Veins Theory: A Model of Global Discourse Cohesion and Coherence
In this paper, we propose a generalization of Centering Theory (CT) (Grosz, Joshi, Weinstein 1995) called Veins Theory (VT), which extends the applicability of centering rules fro...
Dan Cristea, Nancy Ide, Laurent Romary
ACL
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Diagnostic Processing of Japanese for Computer-Assisted Second Language Learning
As an application of NLP to computer-assisted language learning(CALL) , we propose a diagnostic processing of Japanese being able to detect errors and inappropriateness of sentenc...
Jun'ichi Kakegawa, Hisayuki Kanda, Eitaro Fujioka,...