This paper describes a hybrid parsing method for Japanese which uses both a hand-crafted grammar and a statistical technique. The key feature of our system is that in order to est...
This paper presents a method for automatically generating an association thesaurus from a text corpus, and demonstrates its application to information retrieval. The thesaurus gen...
Automatic transliteration problem is to transcribe foreign words in one's own alphabet. Machine generated transliteration can be useful in various applications such as indexi...
We describe how we constructed an automatic scoring function for machine translation quality; this function makes use of arbitrarily many pieces of natural language processing sof...
Multimodal interfaces require effective parsing and nn(lerstanding of utterances whose content is distributed across multiple input modes. Johnston 1998 presents an approach in wh...
In order to realize their full potential, multimodal interfaces need to support not just input from multiple modes, but single commands optimally distributed across the available ...