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ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Parametric Models of Linguistic Count Data
It is well known that occurrence counts of words in documents are often modeled poorly by standard distributions like the binomial or Poisson. Observed counts vary more than simpl...
Martin Jansche
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
Automated Subcategorization of Named Entities
There has been much interest in the recent past concerning the possibilities for automated categorization of named entities. The research presented here describes a method for the...
Michael Fleischman
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Feedback Cleaning of Machine Translation Rules Using Automatic Evaluation
When rules of transfer-based machine translation (MT) are automatically acquired from bilingual corpora, incorrect/redundant rules are generated due to acquisition errors or trans...
Kenji Imamura, Eiichiro Sumita, Yuji Matsumoto
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
Methods for the Qualitative Evaluation of Lexical Association Measures
This paper presents methods for a qualitative, unbiased comparison of lexical association measures and the results we have obtained for adjective-noun pairs and preposition-noun-v...
Stefan Evert, Brigitte Krenn
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Parsing with Generative Models of Predicate-Argument Structure
The model used by the CCG parser of Hockenmaier and Steedman (2002b) would fail to capture the correct bilexical dependencies in a language with freer word order, such as Dutch. T...
Julia Hockenmaier
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
Topological Dependency Trees: A Constraint-Based Account of Linear Precedence
We describe a new framework for dependency grammar, with a modular decomposition of immediate dependency and linear precedence. Our approach distinguishes two orthogonal yet mutua...
Denys Duchier, Ralph Debusmann
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Corpus-Based Discourse Understanding in Spoken Dialogue Systems
This paper concerns the discourse understanding process in spoken dialogue systems. This process enables the system to understand user utterances based on the context of a dialogu...
Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Mikio Nakano, Kiyoaki Aikaw...
ACL
2003
14 years 27 days ago
Recognizing Expressions of Commonsense Psychology in English Text
Many applications of natural language processing technologies involve analyzing texts that concern the psychological states and processes of people, including their beliefs, goals...
Andrew Gordon, Abe Kazemzadeh, Anish Nair, Milena ...
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
Empirically Estimating Order Constraints for Content Planning in Generation
In a language generation system, a content planner embodies one or more "plans" that are usually hand
Pablo Ariel Duboué, Kathleen McKeown
ACL
2001
14 years 27 days ago
Practical Issues in Compiling Typed Unification Grammars for Speech Recognition
Current alternatives for language modeling are statistical techniques based on large amounts of training data, and hand-crafted context-free or finite-state grammars that are diff...
John Dowding, Beth Ann Hockey, Jean Mark Gawron, C...