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- ArticleJune 1994
Conceptual association for compound noun analysis
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 337–339https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981785This paper describes research toward the automatic interpretation of compound nouns using corpus statistics. An initial study aimed at syntactic disambiguation is presented. The approach presented bases associations upon thesaurus categories. ...
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Automatic alignment in parallel corpora
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 334–336https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981784This paper addresses the alignment issue in the framework of exploitation of large bimultilingual corpora for translation purposes. A generic alignment scheme is proposed that can meet varying requirements of different applications. Depending on the ...
- ArticleJune 1994
An automatic method of finding topic boundaries
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 331–333https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981783This article outlines a new method of locating discourse boundaries based on lexical cohesion and a graphical technique called dotplotting. The application of dotplotting to discourse segmentation can be performed either manually, by examining a graph, ...
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Integration of visual inter-word constraints and linguistic knowledge in degraded text recognition
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 328–330https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981782Degraded text recognition is a difficult task. Given a noisy text image, a word recognizer can be applied to generate several candidates for each word image. High-level knowledge sources can then be used to select a decision from the candidate set for ...
- ArticleJune 1994
Dual-coding theory and connectionist lexical selection
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 325–327https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981781We introduce the bilingual dual-coding theory as a model for bilingual mental representation. Based on this model, lexical selection neural networks are implemented for a connectionist transfer project in machine translation.
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- ArticleJune 1994
Simulating children's null subjects: an early language generation model
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 322–324https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981780This paper reports work in progress on a sentence generation model which attempts to emulate certain language output patterns of children between the ages of one and one-half and three years. In particular, the model addresses the issue of why missing ...
- ArticleJune 1994
Temporal relations: reference or discourse coherence?
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 319–321https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981779The temporal relations that hold between events described by successive utterances are often left implicit or underspecified. We address the role of two phenomena with respect to the recovery of these relations: (1) the referential properties of tense, ...
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An integrated heuristic scheme for partial parse evaluation
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 316–318https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981778GLR is a recently developed robust version of the Generalized LR Parser [Tomita, 1986], that can parse almost any input sentence by ignoring unrecognizable parts of the sentence. On a given input sentence, the parser returns a collection of parses that ...
- ArticleJune 1994
Graded unification: a framework for interactive processing
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 313–315https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981777An extension to classical unification, called graded unification is presented. It is capable of combining contradictory information. An interactive processing paradigm and parser based on this new operator are also presented.
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Reaping the benefits of interactive syntax and semantics
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 310–312https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981776Semantic feedback is an important source of information that a parser could use to deal with local ambiguities in syntax. However, it is difficult to devise a systematic communication mechanism for interactive syntax and semantics. In this article, I ...
- ArticleJune 1994
Detecting and correcting speech repairs
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 295–302https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981773Interactive spoken dialog provides many new challenges for spoken language systems. One of the most critical is the prevalence of speech repairs. This paper presents an algorithm that detects and corrects speech repairs based on finding the repair ...
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Relating complexity to practical performance in parsing with wide-coverage unification grammars
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 287–294https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981772The paper demonstrates that exponential complexities with respect to grammar size and input length have little impact on the performance of three unification-based parsing algorithms, using a wide-coverage grammar. The results imply that the study and ...
- ArticleJune 1994
Acquiring receptive morphology: a connectionist model
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 279–286https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981771This paper describes a modular connectionist model of the acquisition of receptive inflectional morphology. The model takes inputs in the form of phones one at a time and outputs the associated roots and inflections. Simulations using artificial ...
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Similarity-based estimation of word cooccurrence probabilities
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 272–278https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981770In many applications of natural language processing it is necessary to determine the likelihood of a given word combination. For example, a speech recognizer may need to determine which of the two word combinations "eat a peach" and "eat a beach" is ...
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Multiset-valued linear index grammars: imposing dominance constraints on derivations
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 263–270https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981768This paper defines multiset-valued linear index grammar and unordered vector grammar with dominance links. The former models certain uses of multiset-valued feature structures in unification-based formalisms, while the latter is motivated by word order ...
- ArticleJune 1994
An automatic treebank conversion algorithm for corpus sharing
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 248–254https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981766An automatic treebank conversion method is proposed in this paper to convert a treebank into another treebank. A new treebank associated with a different grammar can be generated automatically from the old one such that the information in the original ...
- ArticleJune 1994
A corpus-based approach to automatic compound extraction
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 242–247https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981765An automatic compound retrieval method is proposed to extract compounds within a text message. It uses n-gram mutual information, relative frequency count and parts of speech as the features for compound extraction. The problem is modeled as a two-class ...
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Extracting noun phrases from large-scale texts: a hybrid approach and its automatic evaluation
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 234–241https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981764To acquire noun phrases from running texts is useful for many applications, such as word grouping, terminology indexing, etc. The reported literatures adopt pure probabilistic approach, or pure rule-based noun phrases grammar to tackle this problem. In ...
- ArticleJune 1994
Tricolor DAGs for machine translation
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 226–233https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981763Machine translation (MT) has recently been formulated in terms of constraint-based knowledge representation and unification theories, but it is becoming more and more evident that it is not possible to design a practical MT system without an adequate ...
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Generalized chart algorithm: an efficient procedure for cost-based abduction
ACL '94: Proceedings of the 32nd annual meeting on Association for Computational LinguisticsJune 1994, Pages 218–225https://doi.org/10.3115/981732.981762We present an efficient procedure for cost-based abduction, which is based on the idea of using chart parsers as proof procedures. We discuss in detail three features of our algorithm --- goal-driven bottom-up derivation, tabulation of the partial ...