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ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Error Profiling: Toward a Model of English Acquisition for Deaf Learners
In this paper we discuss our approach toward establishing a model of the acquisition of English grammatical structures by users of our English language tutoring system, which has ...
Lisa N. Michaud, Kathleen F. McCoy
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
A SNoW Based Supertagger with Application to NP Chunking
Supertagging is the tagging process of assigning the correct elementary tree of LTAG, or the correct supertag, to each
Libin Shen, Aravind K. Joshi
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
A Generic Approach to Parallel Chart Parsing with an Application to LinGO
Multi-processor systems are becoming more commonplace and affordable. Based on analyses of actual parsings, we argue that to exploit the capabilities of such machines, unification...
Marcel P. Van Lohuizen
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
A Word-Order Database for Testing Computational Models of Language Acquisition
An investment of effort over the last two years has begun to produce a wealth of data concerning computational psycholinguistic models of syntax acquisition. The data is generated...
William Gregory Sakas
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Arabic Stemming Using a Parallel Corpus
This paper presents an unsupervised learning approach to building a non-English (Arabic) stemmer. The stemming model is based on statistical machine translation and it uses an Eng...
Monica Rogati, J. Scott McCarley, Yiming Yang
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Predicting User Reactions to System Error
This paper focuses on the analysis and prediction of so-called aware sites, defined as turns where a user of a spoken dialogue system first becomes aware that the system has made ...
Diane J. Litman, Julia Hirschberg, Marc Swerts
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluation Challenges in Large-Scale Document Summarization
We present a large-scale meta evaluation of eight evaluation measures for both single-document and multi-document summarizers. To this end we built a corpus consisting of (a) 100 ...
Dragomir R. Radev, Simone Teufel, Horacio Saggion,...
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Syntactic Parsing as a Step for Automatically Augmenting Semantic Lexicons
This paper investigates how, and to what extent the flexibility and robustness of a partial parser can be utilized to automatically extend existing semantic lexicons. Our work is ...
Dimitrios Kokkinakis
ACL
2003
13 years 11 months ago
A Tabulation-Based Parsing Method that Reduces Copying
This paper presents a new bottom-up chart parsing algorithm for Prolog along with a compilation procedure that reduces the amount of copying at run-time to a constant number (2) p...
Gerald Penn, Cosmin Munteanu
ACL
2001
13 years 11 months ago
Extending Lambek Grammars: a Logical Account of Minimalist Grammars
We provide a logical definition of Minimalist grammars, that are Stabler's formalization of Chomsky's minimalist program. Our logical definition leads to a neat relation...
Alain Lecomte, Christian Retoré