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JMLR
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Covariance in Unsupervised Learning of Probabilistic Grammars
Probabilistic grammars offer great flexibility in modeling discrete sequential data like natural language text. Their symbolic component is amenable to inspection by humans, while...
Shay B. Cohen, Noah A. Smith
CORR
2011
Springer
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Codeco: A Grammar Notation for Controlled Natural Language in Predictive Editors
Existing grammar frameworks do not work out particularly well for controlled natural languages (CNL), especially if they are to be used in predictive editors. I introduce in this p...
Tobias Kuhn
EMNLP
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Inducing Probabilistic CCG Grammars from Logical Form with Higher-Order Unification
This paper addresses the problem of learning to map sentences to logical form, given training data consisting of natural language sentences paired with logical representations of ...
Tom Kwiatkowksi, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Sharon Goldw...
GRAMMARS
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
Quantitative Comparison of Languages
From the perspective of the linguist, the theory of formal languages serves as an abstract model to address issues such as complexity, learnability, information content, etc. which...
András Kornai
DEBU
2007
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13 years 8 months ago
Multi-lingual Semantic Matching with OrdPath in Relational Systems
The volume of information in natural languages in electronic format is increasing exponentially. The demographics of users of information management systems are becoming increasin...
A. Kumaran, Peter Carlin
CNL
2009
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Polysemy in Controlled Natural Language Texts
Controlled natural languages (CNL) and computational semantics in general do not address word sense disambiguation, i.e., they tend to interpret only some functional words that are...
Normunds Gruzitis, Guntis Barzdins
ANLP
1994
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Guided Sentences Composition for Disabled People
We present the advantages of guided sentences composition for communicating in natural language with computers. We show how guidance can be achieved by means of the partial synthe...
Robert Pasero, Nathalie Richardet, Paul Sabatier
ACL
2006
13 years 10 months ago
A Hierarchical Bayesian Language Model Based On Pitman-Yor Processes
We propose a new hierarchical Bayesian n-gram model of natural languages. Our model makes use of a generalization of the commonly used Dirichlet distributions called Pitman-Yor pr...
Yee Whye Teh
MEDINFO
2007
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13 years 10 months ago
Reconciliation of Ontology and Terminology to Cope with Linguistics
Objectives: To discuss the relationships between ontologies, terminologies and language in the context of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications in order to show the negat...
Robert H. Baud, Werner Ceusters, Patrick Ruch, Ann...
IFIP12
2007
13 years 10 months ago
Hardware Natural Language Interface
In this paper an efficient architecture for natural language processing is presented, implemented in hardware using FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). The system can receive s...
Christos Pavlatos, Alexandros C. Dimopoulos, Georg...