... Processes that Shape Conversation
and their Implications for Computational Linguistics
Susan E. Brennan
Department of Psychology
State ... evidence that listeners may be
relatively deaf to the words in a reparandum (the
part that would need to be excised in order for
the utterance to be fluent), and Shriberg and
Lickley (1993) found that ... recognition and utter...
... Categorial Fluidity in Chinese and its Implications for
Part-of-speech Tagging
OiYeeKwong
Benjamin K. Tsou
Language Information Sciences Research Centre
City University ... important
resource for the study of this special linguistic
phenomenon, as well as for lexicography and
natural language processing.
In Section 2, we first discuss POS ambiguity
and categorial fluidity ......
... results and Ta-
ble 3 shows the final NER F1 results. We compare
to the state-of-the-art methods of Ando and Zhang
(2005), Suzuki and Isozaki (2008), and for
NER—Lin and Wu (2009). Tables 2 and 3 ... unlabeled data. For NER, Figure 3 (b)
shows that most errors occur on rare words, and
that Brown clusters do indeed incur fewer errors
for rare words. This supports our hypot...
... on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the ACL, pages 841–848,
Sydney, July 2006.
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Answer Extraction, Semantic Clustering, and ... techniques from
summarization and information retrieval.
We tackle a frequently-occurring class of
questions that takes the form “What is
the best drug treatment for X?” Starting
fro...
... constituent and depen-
dency parsing (Collins and Duffy, 2002; McDon-
ald et al., 2005), and logical form extraction (Zettle-
moyer and Collins, 2005).
Machine learning research for structured ... vectors. For stability, we impose the con-
straint that the sum of the updates in each step should
be zero. We assume that the possible output values
are {y
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m
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and, for con...
... enzymes [107] deriving from their role in
regulation of starch metabolism, and are therefore less
favoured. The known a-amylase inhibitors selective for
insect enzymes and inactive against mammalian ... Nutrit. 129, 1597±1603.
146. Foreman, C.T. (1990) Food safety and quality for the con-
sumer: policies and communication. In Anim al Biotechnology in
1990s: Opportunities and C...
... configuration and confor-
mational features at interfaces cannot yet be accu-
rately predicted for enzymes, it is difficult to design a
platform that works for any given enzymatic system
and to find ... understanding of structural differences between
hyperthermozymes and their mesophilic and thermo-
philic homologs, as well as the effect of immobilization
on their structural re...
... generic addition and multiplication operation,
⊕ and ⊗, and their identities 0 and 1. Multipli-
cation and addition must be associative. Multi-
plication must distribute over addition, and v ⊗ 0
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cdec: A Decoder, Alignment, and Learning Framework for
Finite-State and Context-Free Translation Models
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... Scale Collocation Data and Their Application
to Japanese Word Processor Technology
Yasuo Koymna, Masako Yasutake, Kenji Yoshimura and Kosho Shudo
Institute for Informalion and Conlrol Systmas, ... segmentation candidate. By this, the
collocation tends to have priority over the ordi-
nary word. The standard and initial value of each
segment cost is 2, and it is increased by...
... in
Informatics and IT workshops organized in
Vietnam. These efforts are modest and do not yet
show our full potential. There are many reasons
for this weakness. The major reasons that
the different efforts ... DOS/Windows,
standardization for Vietnamese (James Do, Ngo
Thanh Nhan), automatic translation of English
documents into Vietnamese and vice versa (Phan
Thi Tuoi, Dinh Dien),...