... July 2006.
c
2006 Association for Computational Linguistics
A Flexible Approach to Natural Language Generation for Disabled
Children
Pradipta Biswas
School of Information Technology
Indian ... speech -to- speech translator
between English and Mandarin Chinese. The
NLG part of this system uses trigram language
model for selecting appropriate inflectional form
for...
... A FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO COOPERATIVE RESPONSE GENERATION
IN INFORMATION-SEEKING DIALOGUES
Liliana Ardissono, Alessandro Lombardo, Dario Sestero
Dipartimento di Informatica - Universita' ...
further questions to the user. For example, if the user
says that he wants to talk to the advisor for a course
plan, but he does not specify which (so it is not possi-
ble to...
... bootstrapping
approach to named entity (NE)
classification. This approach only requires
a few common noun/pronoun seeds that
correspond to the concept for the target
NE type, e.g. he/she/man/woman for ... method for PER NE, LOC NE, and
ORG NE are 5%, 6%, and 34% respectively.
The performance for PER and LOC are above
80%, approaching the performance of supervised
learn...
... researchers tried to encode do-
2
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/
3
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/
Total radiology records 1,954
Total tokens 51,940
Total ICD-9-Codes 45
Total code instances ... 67–72,
Columbus, June 2008.
c
2008 Association for Computational Linguistics
A Hierarchical Approach to Encoding Medical Concepts for Clinical Notes
Yitao Zhang
School of Information Te...
... probability Pr(S → S
). In order
to conform to the log-linear model used in the de-
coder, we integrate the two factors by defining the
total score of T as formula 3:
exp(λ
r
logPr(S →S
) +
i
λ
i
F
i
(S
→T ... then fed to stan-
dard phrase-based decoder to produce the
optimal translation. Experiments show that,
for the NIST MT-05 task of Chinese -to-
English translation, the...
... Compared
to the current methods used by the statistical or
rule-based approaches to natural language process-
ing, NNs offer the possibility of dealing with a much
more complex approach (non-linear ... sense. As
a result, before deciding attachment, it is first nec-
essary to determine the correct sense for each word.
3 None of the preceding methods used classes for
ver...
...
C3200 before moving on to investigate a plan for
CS263. Since the teacher of C3200 has nothing to
do with the plan for taking C3263, the mechanisms
for retaining dialogue context will fail to iden- ... such ques-
tions implicitly by proceding to answer the ques-
tion or to seek information relevant to formulat-
ing an answer. However IS may refuse to accept
the ques...
... Notebook of Speech and Natural
Language Workshop, 1989. To be reprinted by Mor-
gan Kaufmann Publishers.
202
A HYBRID APPROACH TO REPRESENTATION IN THE
JANUS NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSOR
Ralph ... A Logical-form
and Knowledge-base Design for Natural Language
Generation. Proceedings AAAI-86 Fifth National Con-
ference on Artificial Intelligence, The American As-
soci...
... (1961)
and the division into 15 text categories
is the same for bo~h corpora for the
purposes of a systematic comparison of
British and American natural language and
for collaboration between ... automatic constituent analysis. The
detailed distinctions made by the
subcategory symbols are devised with the
aim of providing helpful information for
automatic constituent analy...
... these cytochromes have been proposed to be ter-
minal Fe(III) and Mn(IV) reductases, although their role in the reduction
of other metals is less well understood. To obtain more insight into this,
we ... reduction curves conforms to the MR-1R
curve, allow us to deduce that the electron transport
chain does not bifurcate any further, but ends at this
point before transferring electrons...