In this paper it is argued that the, accuracy of the syntax-semantics interfhce is improw',d by adopting u non-linear obliqueness hierarchy [br subcategorized arguments.
I:n this paper, we describe a new corpus-based approach to prepositional phrase attachment disambiguation, and present results colnparing peffo> mange of this algorithm with ot...
This paper focusses on mental state adjectives and offers a unified analysis in the theory of Generative Lexicon (Pustejovsky, 1991, 1995). We show that, instead of enumerating th...
This paper presents a heuristic method that uses information in the Japanese text along with knowledge of English countability and number stored in transfer dictionaries to determ...
We address here the treatment of metonymic expressions from a knowledge representation perspective, that is, in the context of a text understanding system which aims to build a co...
Jacques Bouaud, Bruno Bachimont, Pierre Zweigenbau...
We present a new softw,'u'e architecture for NLP systems made of heterogeneous components, and demonstrate an architectural prototype we have built at ATR iu the context...
The paper discusses how compositional semantics is implemented in the Verbmobil speech-to-speech translation system using LUD, a description language for underspecified discourse ...