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COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Multilingual Alignments by Monolingual String Differences
We propose a method to obtain subsentential alignments from several languages simultaneously. The method handles several languages at once, and avoids the complexity explosion due...
Adrien Lardilleux, Yves Lepage
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Underspecified Modelling of Complex Discourse Constraints
We introduce a new type of discourse constraints for the interaction of discourse relations with the configuration of discourse segments. We examine corpus-extracted examples as s...
Markus Egg, Michaela Regneri
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Generation under Space Constraints
Reasoning about how much to generate when space is limited is a challenge for generation systems. This paper presents two algorithms that exploit the discourse structure to decide...
Cécile Paris, Nathalie Colineau, Andrew Lam...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Hindi Compound Verbs and their Automatic Extraction
We analyse Hindi complex predicates and propose linguistic tests for their detection. This analysis enables us to identify a category of V+V complex predicates called lexical comp...
Debasri Chakrabarti, Hemang Mandalia, Ritwik Priya...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Construction of an Infrastructure for Providing Users with Suitable Language Resources
Our research organization has been constructing a large scale database named SHACHI by collecting detailed meta information on language resources (LRs) in Asia and Western countri...
Hitomi Tohyama, Shunsuke Kozawa, Kiyotaka Uchimoto...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Sentence Compression as a Step in Summarization or an Alternative Path in Text Shortening
The originality of this work leads in tackling text compression using an unsupervised method, based on a deep linguistic analysis, and without resorting on a learning corpus. This...
Mehdi Yousfi Monod, Violaine Prince
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
A Scalable MMR Approach to Sentence Scoring for Multi-Document Update Summarization
We present SMMR, a scalable sentence scoring method for query-oriented update summarization. Sentences are scored thanks to a criterion combining query relevance and dissimilarity...
Florian Boudin, Marc El-Bèze, Juan Manuel T...
COLING
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Explaining Similarity of Terms
Computing the similarity between entities is a core component of many NLP tasks such as measuring the semantic similarity of terms for generating a distributional thesaurus. In th...
Vishnu Vyas, Patrick Pantel