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...
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...
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...
Any large language processing software relies in its operation on heuristic decisions concerning the strategy of processing. These decisions are usually "hard-wired" int...
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,...
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...
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...