ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
An essential step in comparative reconstruction is to align corresponding phonological segments in the words being compared. To do this, one must search among huge numbers of pote...
ACL
2000
14 years 26 days ago
2000
In this paper, we outline a theory of referential accessibility called Veins Theory (VT). We show how VT addresses the problem of "left satellites", currently a problem ...
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
The paper presents a tabular interpretation for a kind of 2-Stack Automata. These automata may be used to describe various parsing strategies, ranging from purely top-down to pure...
ACL
2000
14 years 26 days ago
2000
The main aim of this paper is to analyse the e ects of applying pronominal anaphora resolution to Question Answering QA systems. For this task a complete QA system has been implem...
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
This paper describes a domain independent, automatically trained call router which directs customer calls based on their response to an open-ended "How may I direct your call...
ACL
2000
14 years 26 days ago
2000
e, the system labels constituents with either abstract semantic roles such as AGENT or PATIENT, or more domain-specific semantic roles such as SPEAKER, MESSAGE, and TOPIC. The syst...
ACL
2000
14 years 26 days ago
2000
We propose a distribution-based pruning of n-gram backoff language models. Instead of the conventional approach of pruning n-grams that are infrequent in training data, we prune n...
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
ACL
1998
14 years 26 days ago
1998
In this study, a learning device based on the PATtree data structures was developed. The original PAT-trees were enhanced with the deletion function to emulate human learning comp...
ACL
2000
14 years 26 days ago
2000
I describe two methods for incorporating information about the relative positions of bilingual word pairs into a Maximum Entropy/Minimum Divergence translation model. The better o...