... aspects of naming in
computer systems. To the linguist or psycholinguist they are
disappointing because there is no theory or analytic framework for
describing what is happening. In my own work ... (1983) work on planning referring
expressions, and Finin's (1982) work on parsing complex noun
phrases, but individual lexical items have not been treated in
much detail. In cont...
... done in
NLP research (section 3). We then explain why
implementing morphology in the context of ma-
chine translation (MT) is a real challenge and
what kind of aspects need to be taken into ... particularly useful in a
bilingual context for rules that have more than
one prefix in both languages: more than one affix
can be declared in one single rule, the selection
being made...
... linguistic features would allow gen-
uinely novel entries to be created, which,
given that the user is a non-linguist, Would
almost certainly lead to inconsistencies.
In addition, endowing ... variable and
indeterminate, they are much less so
than judgments of semantic acceptabil-
ity, which do not play any part in VEX's
main decision-making process. In or-
der to remind th...
... exten-
sion and constrains the number of intensions to one
by using the function '!1' introduced in Section 4.1
as shown in the following;
which is indistinguishable from other one-place ...
spring-cleaning.
Some of these inferences are done using syntactic
structure in English, however , that is not possible in
Japanese. Such metonymic extensions are essential
for...
... nontrivial task
that involves nonliteral uses of such words.
Moreover, we show that visual and textual in-
formation are tapping on different aspects of
meaning, and indeed combining them in mul-
timodal ... that vi-
sual and textual information are tapping on different
aspects of meaning, such that they are complemen-
tary sources of information, and indeed combining
them in multimodal...
...
proposition-oriented
items.
Finally, we discuss how lexical selection is influenced by
thematic
([oc~)
information in the input.
I. Introduction
There is a consensus among computational linguists
that ... and indexicats
(here, now, I, there);
• prepositions (on,
during, against);
. paxentheticals and attitudinal~
(az a matter off act,
o~
the
contrary);
•
conjunctions, inc...
...
warranted because the resulting system will be
considerably more robust in the face of
inacct~rate
or
indeterminate input concerning the nature of the weak
syllables in the input utterance.
CONCLUSION ... distinguish word.initial/I/
in/ 17/fzom
word-inlernal /I/ in /hid/?
In this paper, I shall argue for a model which splits
the lexical access process into a pre-lexical phon...
... for as-
sessing therelative decrease in retrieval performance
when indexing summaries instead of full documents.
The idea behind it is similar to (Sparck-Jones and
Sakai, 2001). In that experiment, ... summarizers.
1 Introduction
Automatic document summarization is a field that
has seen increasing attention from the NLP commu-
nity in recent years. In part, this is because sum-
marizat...
... statistical tech-
nique for aligning sentences with their translations
in two parallel corpora. In addition to certain
anchor points that are available in our da.ta, the
only information about the sentences ... appear
are shown in Table 1.
ALIGNING ANCHOR POINTS
After examining the Hansard corpora, we
realized that the comments laced throughout
would serve as uscflll anchor po...
... such that it prefers that an interrogating agent not
find out the requested information. This might block the
formation of an intention to inform, but what is it that inspires
the agent to respond ... the role of the dialogue manager
in the TRAINS dialogue system which acts as an intelligent
planning assistant in a transportation domain. While this is
a domain where the assumption of...