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ACL
1992
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Handling Linear Precedence Constraints by Unification
Linear precedence (LP) rules are widely used for stating word order principles. They have been adopted as constraints by HPSG but no encoding in the formalism has been provided. S...
Judith Engelkamp, Gregor Erbach, Hans Uszkoreit
ACL
1992
13 years 8 months ago
GPSM: A Generalized Probabilistic Semantic Model for Ambiguity Resolution
In natural language processing, ambiguity resolution is a central issue, and can be regarded as a preference assignment problem. In this paper, a Generalized Probabilistic Semanti...
Jing-Shin Chang, Yih-Fen Luo, Keh-Yih Su
ACL
1992
13 years 8 months ago
Lattice-Based Word Identification in CLARE
I argue that because of spelling and typing errors and other properties of typed text, the identification of words and word boundaries in general requires syntactic and semantic k...
David M. Carter
ACL
1992
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Corpus-Based Acquisition of Relative Pronoun Disambiguation Heuristics
This paper presents a corpus-based approach for deriving heuristics to locate the antecedents of relative pronouns. The technique dupficates the performance of hand-coded rules an...
Claire Cardie
ACL
1992
13 years 8 months ago
Monotonic Semantic Interpretation
Aspects of semantic interpretation, such as quantifier scoping and reference resolution, are often realised computationally by non-monotonic operations involving loss of informati...
Hiyan Alshawi, Richard S. Crouch
ACL
1992
13 years 8 months ago
Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources for Detection and Correction of Repairs in Human-Computer Dialog
We have analyzed 607 sentences of spontaneous human-computer speech data containing repairs, drawn from a total corpus of 10,718 sentences. We present here criteria and techniques...
John Bear, John Dowding, Elizabeth Shriberg
ACL
1992
13 years 8 months ago
A Simple But Useful Approach to Conjunct Identification
This paper presents an approach to identifying conjuncts of coordinate conjunctions appearing in text which has been labelled with syntactic and semantic tags. The overall project...
Rajeev Agarwal, Lois Boggess
ACL
1989
13 years 8 months ago
A Transfer Model Using a Typed Feature Structure Rewriting System with Inheritance
We propose a model for transfer in machine translation which uses a rewriting system for typed feature structures. The grammar definitions describe transfer relations which are ap...
Rémi Zajac
ACL
1989
13 years 8 months ago
A Hybrid Approach to Representation in the Janus Natural Language Processor
In BBN's natural language understanding and generation system (Janus), we have used a hybrid approach to representation, employing an intensional logic for the representation...
Ralph M. Weischedel
ACL
1989
13 years 8 months ago
Automatic Acquisition of the Lexical Semantics of Verbs from Sentence Frames
This paper presents a computational model ofverb acquisitionwhich uses what we willcallthe principle of structured overeommitment to eliminate the need for negative evidence. The ...
Mort Webster, Mitchell P. Marcus