The paper presents the Constructive Dialogue Model as a new approach to formulate system goals in intelligent dialogue systems. The departure point is in general communicative pri...
The revised graph unification algorithms presented here are more efficient because they reduce the amount of copying that was necessary because of the assumption that data-structu...
A desired property of a measure of connective strength in bigrams is that the measure should be insensitive to corpus size. This paper investigates the stability of three differen...
Analyzing compound nouns is one of the crucial issues for natural language processing systems, in particular for those systems that aim at a wide coverage of domaius. In this pape...
In order to extractrigidexpressions with a high frequency of use, new algorithm that can efficientlyextract both uninterruptedand interruptedcollocationsfrom very large corpora ha...
This paper presents the results of an experiment usiug machine-readable dictionaries (Mill)s) and corpora for building concatenativc units for text to speech (T'PS) systems. ...
The paper describes problems in disambiguating the morphological analysis of Bantu languages by using Swahili as a test language. The main factors of ambiguity in this language gr...
This pat)er t)resents some techniques for selecting linguistically adequate hypol;heses of new grammat.foal knowledge to be used as resources of gralmnatical knowledge acquisition...