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The paper presents a constraint based semantic formalism for HPSG. The syntax-semantics inter- face directly implements syntactic conditions on quantifier scoping and distributivity. 1 The con- struction of semantic representations is guided" by general principles governing the interaction bet- ween syntax and semantics. Each of these princip- les acts as …...

The paper adresses the problem of reasoning with ambiguities. Semantic representations are presented that leave scope relations between quantifiers and/or other operators unspecified. Truth conditions are provided for these representations and different con- sequence relations are judged on the basis of intuitive correctness. Finally inference patterns are presented that operate …...

It is common opinion that current hypertextual systems do not allow to express objectively the information content of documents, but only the view of the "author". The hyperlink building requires an heavy and highly specialised human intervention: this task is very expensive whenever possible! A different approach, based on NLP …...

This paper proposes an interactive rewriting tool for supporting people in creating machine acceptable sentences. The experiment and evaluation of this tool conducted when applied to a pre-editing support tool in a Japanese-to-English machine translation (henceforth, MT) system are also described. 1....

A new type of thesaurus for word process- ing is proposed. It comprises 7 semantic and 8 syntagmatic types of links between Russian words and collocations. The orig- inal version now includes ca. 76,000 ba- sic dictionary entries, 660,000 semantic and 292,000 syntagmatic links, English inter- face, and communication with …...

The "Selective Error Correction Method" to judge these three types of errors, and correct them, using ra-th order Markov chain model for Japanese 'kanji-kana' char- acters, has been proposed and shown to be useful to detect and correct errors gener- ated randomly (Araki et al., 1994). In this paper, this …...

This paper proposes an English adverb ordering method based on adverb gram- matical functions (subjuncts, adjuncts, dis- juncts and conjuncts) and meanings (pro- cess, space, time etc.), preferred positions in sentences (initial, medial, end, pre, post), and priorities between adverbs with the same preferred position. 1...

We attack the problem of aligning words from pairs of bilingual sentences, rather than the well-known, and somewhat easier, problem of aligning sentences. The method that we develop is based on the use of bilingual dictionaries, having supposed that lemmatization has taken place. We first show that this method performs …...

Given a noisy text page, a word recognizer can generate a set of candidates for each word image. A relaxation algorithm was proposed previously by the authors that uses word collocation statistics to select the candidate for each word that has the highest probability of being the correct decision. Because …...

This paper proposes a method that automatically acquires the SAs (semantic attributes) of user defined words. Applying this method to the compilation of a user dictionary targeting newspaper article sentences and sentences of software design documents has revealed that the automatically determined SAs include 50 to 80% of the correct …...

We report on the results of a series of experiments with a prototype text retrieval system which uses relatively advanced natural language processing techniques in order to enhance the effectiveness of statistical docu- ment retrieval. In this paper we show that large-scale natural language processing (hundreds of millions of words …...

This paper reports on the assessment of computer assisted translation tools for a large localisation com- pany and the practical evaluation of one such tool....

Text categorization is the classification of documents with respect to a set of prede- fined categories. In this paper, we propose a new probabilistic model for text catego- rization, that is based on a Single random Variable with Multiple Values (SVMV). Com- pared to previous probabilistic models, our model has …...

Japanese texts frequently suffer from the homophone errors caused by the KANA-KANJI conversion needed to input the text. It is critical, therefore, for Japanese revision support systems to detect and to correct homophone errors. This paper proposes a method for detecting and correcting Japanese homophone errors in compound nouns. This …...

Given a noisy text page, a word recognizer can generate a set of candidates for each word image. A relaxation algorithm was proposed previously by the authors that uses word collocation statistics to select the candidate for each word that has the highest probability of being the correct decision. Because …...

In this paper, we want to describe the ar- chitecture and some of the implementation issues of a large scale category guesser for Dutch medical vocabulary. We Mso provide numerical data on the precision and cover- age of this category guesser, which has to cover for the moment only the …...

Automatic text tagging is an important component in higher level analysis of text corpora, and its output can be used in many natural language processing applica- tions. In languages like Turkish or Finnish, with agglutinative morphology, morpholog- ical disambiguation is a very crucial pro- cess in tagging, as the structures …...

Biological specimens have historically been la- beled with English descriptions of the location of collection. To perform spatial, statistical, or historic studies, these descriptions must be converted into geodetic coordinates. A study of the sublanguage used in the descriptions shows much less frequent than typical usage of observer-relative relations such …...

This paper presents Delphi, the natural language component of the BBN Spoken Language System. Delphi is a domain- independent natural language question an- swering system that is solidly based on linguistic principles, yet which is also ro- bust to ungrammatical input. It includes a domain-independent, broad-coverage gram- mar of English. …...

An analysis of the evolution of Natu- ral Language front ends in the last three decades shows that the growth in portabil- ity brought, as a side effect, the narrow- ing of the provided coverage of contextu- ally based linguistic phenomena, such as anaphora and ellipsis. This paper presents the …...