COLING
2002
13 years 11 months ago
2002
The relative logical scope of multiple modifiers within NP is often semantically significant. This paper proposes a structurally based method for computing the relative scope of s...
COLING
2002
13 years 11 months 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
13 years 11 months 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
13 years 11 months 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
13 years 11 months 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
13 years 11 months 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
13 years 11 months 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
13 years 11 months 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
13 years 11 months 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
13 years 11 months 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...