COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
2002
Cross-linguistic phoneme correspondences, or metaphonemes1 , can be defined across languages which are relatively closely related in exactly the same way as correspondences can be...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
2002
If information extraction wants to make its results more accurate, it will have to resort increasingly to a coherent implementation of natural language semantics. In this paper, w...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
2002
We present an architecture for spoken dialogue systems where first-order inference (both theorem proving and model building) plays a crucial role in interpreting utterances of dia...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
2002
In this paper we show to what degree the countability of English nouns is predictable from their semantics. We found that at 78% of nouns' countability could be predicted usi...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
2002
This paper proposes a new approach for text categorization, based on a feature projection technique. In our approach, training data are represented as the projections of training ...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
2002
This paper discusses an innovative approach to the computer assisted scoring of student responses in WebLAS (web-based language assessment system)- a language assessment system de...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
2002
The mapping between syntactic structure and prosodic structure is a widely discussed topic in linguistics. In this work we use insights gained from research on syntax-to-prosody m...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
2002
The dictionary look-up of unknown words is particularly difficult in Japanese due to the complicated writing system. We propose a system which allows learners of Japanese to look ...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
2002
We present in this paper a technique allowing to choose the parsing granularity within the same approach relying on a constraint-based formalism. Its main advantage lies in the fa...
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
2002
Less than 1% of the languages spoken in the world are correctly "computerized": spell checkers, hyphenation, machine translation are still lacking for the others. In thi...