... Association for Computational Linguistics
Towards a model of formal and informal address in English
Manaal Faruqui
Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur, India
manaalfar@gmail.com
Sebastian ... Bentivogli and Pianta, 2005).
The phenomenon of formal and informal ad-
dress has been considered in the contexts of transla-
tion...
... empirical study
and, based on our analysis of conversational data,
propose a model of grounding using both verbal
and nonverbal information, and present our im-
plementation of that model into an ...
Conversation can be seen as a collaborative activ-
ity to accomplish information-sharing and to pur-
sue joint goals and tasks. Under this view,
agreeing on what has bee...
... on a data card for each student. The regis-
trar also supplies data cards containing a student
name, identification number and number of courses
passed.
The parser is invoked by activating ... languages as FRL, KLONE and KIIL.
Frames have played dual functions. They have
been used as a way to organize the inferences, and
also as a structural representation of what is...
... METONYMY: REASSESSMENT, SURVEY OF ACCEPTABILITY,
AND ITS TREATMENT IN A MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM
Shin-ichiro Kamei* & Takahiro
Wakao
Computing Research Laboratory
New Mexico State University ... article we outline a basic approach
to treating metonymy properly in a multil-
ingual machine translation system. This is
the first attempt at treating metonymy in an
mac...
... an
HFB1-like protein, which, after N-terminal processing
(MKFFTAAALFAAVAIA), C-terminal processing
(AVGA) and disulfide bond formation, has a mass of
7743 Da.
T. longibrachiatum
The main mass peak of T. longibrachiatum ... the range
of 5–10 kDa, typically including two dominating peaks
at approximately m ⁄ z 7000. As mycelia and spores
largely remained intact, and the extraction...
... found in
natural language, with the exception of recent work
by Bos and Nissim (2006) and Jindal and Liu
(2006), they have not yet been investigated within
a computational framework. And within ... product range.
[21] In China, VW is by far [the largest car maker].
The phrases of cars and car in [18] and [19]
both have the role of specifying the type of maker...
... the overall
quality of the clusters created. The main difficulty in
evaluating unsupervised classification tasks against
a gold standard lies in the fact that the class labels
of the obtained clusters ... in nitival sentential clauses, and in nitival
sentential clauses introduced by a preposition. The
individual prepositions are also taken into account
as part of the subcatego...
...
called TIBAQ (Text -and- Inference Based
Answering of Questions, cf. (Haji~ov@
and Sgall, 1981)) with no pre-arranged
data base and with the capacity of self-
-enriching by information drawn ...
above), tense (present, past and future),
mood (indicative and imperative), and
voice (active and passive). As concerns
notation, usually several kinds of infor-
mation are...
... developed in the project treat anno-
tation data in XML from any source as separate
annotation layers, provided the text nodes in each
layer contain the same base data. The base data is
extracted and ... data for any data we want
to annotate. A single instance of base data is
called signal. Signals can be of many different
kinds such as images (e.g. scans of facsimiles) or
str...
...
Ottawa, Ontario, KIS-5B6 CANADA
walid@eagle.hr.att.com
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to suggest that
quantifiers in natural languages do not have a
fixed truth functional meaning as ...
context, as well as time and memory
constraints 1.
1 Introduction
Virtually all computational models of quantification are
based one some variation of the theory of generalized...