... 2004 Research Award at the Ohio State University. We acknowledge support fromNSF grant IIS 0347799.ReferencesS. Bangalore and A. K. Joshi. Supertagging: an approach to almost parsing. Computational ... the work is neither a mere extended application of Corley and Crocker’s work to abroader range of data, nor does it simply con-firm earlier observations that finite state machinesmight accurately ... dataused and the interpretation of the model for humansentence processing. Corley and Crocker clearly state that their model is strictly limited to lexicalambiguity resolution, and their test of the...
... recognition vocabulary of 16716 words;• 3 -state- HMM topology with skip;• 2500 decision tree based generalized within-word triphone states including noise plus one state for silence;• 237k gender independent ... N-best rescoring approach. In this paper, we studydifferent methods for integrating MT models toASR word graphs instead of N-best list. Weconsider ASR word graphs as finite -state automata(FSA), ... Association for Computational LinguisticsIntegration of Speech to Computer-Assisted Translation Using Finite- State AutomataShahram Khadivi Richard ZensLehrstuhl f¨ur Informatik 6 – Computer Science...
... models with finite state supervision. In A. Kornai, ed., ExtendedFinite State Models of Language. Cambridge University Press.Emmanuel Roche and Yves Schabes, editors. 1997. Finite- State Language ... semirings: FlexibleEM for finite -state transducers. In G. van Noord, ed.,Proc. of the ESSLLI Workshop on Finite- State Methodsin Natural Language Processing. Extended abstract.Jason Eisner. ... de-velopment cycle in natural language engineering.2 Transducers and Parameters Finite- state machines, including finite -state au-tomata (FSAs) and transducers (FSTs), are a kindof labeled directed...
... ed-it distance from state 0 to state j, and the cost(i,j) isthe cost of insertion, deletion or substitution from s-tate j to state i. The equation means the minED of state i can be computed ... of state i can be computed by the accumulated minED-cost of state j in the phase p. The state j belongs tothe have-been-calculated state set {X0,. . . ,Xp−1} inphase p. In phrase p, we compute ... our FSTmethods will be evaluated on the corpus we men-tioned above. The contrasting approach, the LSA-SVR approach, will also be presented.5.1 Data SetupThe experiment corpus consists of 417...
... awra.As the figure depicts, 0 is the start state and 4 isthe final state. Each transition is a 4-tuple <c, n,i, o> where c is current state, n is the next state, i is the input symbol and o is ... FST transition tabledo3: if next state is a final state then4: for all rules where I is the last characterof first word do5: S = next state from the start state onencountering X;6: Y = first ... Segmentation Approaches. ECTI-CON,Krabi.Cyril Allauzen, Michael Riley, Johan Schalkwyk, Wo-jciech Skut, and Mehryar Mohri. 2007. OpenFst: AGeneral and Efficient Weighted Finite- State Trans-ducer...
... model-specific code.Once this unscored translation forest has beengenerated, any non-coaccessible states (i.e., statesthat are not reachable from the goal node) are re-moved and the resulting structure ... models. In Proc. ACL.L. Huang, K. Knight, and A. Joshi. 2006. A syntax-directedtranslator with extended domain of locality. In Proc. ofAMTA.P. Koehn, F. J. Och, and D. Marcu. 2003. Statistical ... enablingthe parameterization of the model using millionsof sparse features. While this training approach was originally proposed for SCFG-based transla-tion models, it can be used to train any...
... quence of a start state, reading states, a crossover state, prefinal states, and a final state. The excep- tion to this is a path accepting the empty string, which has a start state, possibly ... reading states), states with e-transitions entering and leaving them (prefinal states), and states with terminal transitions entering them and e-transitions leaving them (cr0ssover states). ... sequence of G-transitions leading to the final state [$' * S.]. Hence ~" has the following kinds of states: the start state, the final state, states with terminal transitions entering...
... q0, R) where (1) Q is a finite set of states, (2) ~ is an input ranked alphabet, (3) A is an output alphabet, (4) q0 E Q is the initial state, and (5) R is a finite set of rules of ... 1969) takes a tree as an input, starts from the initial state with its head scanning the root node of an input. Ac- cording to the current state and the label of the scanned node, it transforms ... of the scanned node, it transforms an input tree into an output tree in a top-down way. A finite state translation system (fts) is a tree transducer with its input domain being the set of...
... have chosen to represent rules as subse- quential finitestate transducers. Subsequential finite state transducers are a subtype of finitestate transduc- ers with the following properties: ... destination state After the process of merging states terminates, a deci- sion tree is induced at each state to classify the outgoing arcs. Figure 9 shows a tree induced at the initial state of ... Destination State: 0 2: Output: [ ], Destination State: 1 prim-stress ix+ 1 2 On end of string: Output: nil, Destination State: 0 Figure 9: Decision Tree Before Pruning: The initial state of...
... languages can be assigned to them by finite- state parsers that op- erate by identifying constituents as quickly as possible. We call this the Efficient Finite- State Parser Hypothesis. The four ... eds., New Approaches to Language Mechanisms. Amsterdam: North-Holland. Jackendoff, Ray S. (1977) X-Bar Syntax. Cam- bridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Langendoen, D. Terence (1975) Finite- state par- ... acceptable sentences of a na- tural language in a manner which enables them to be parsed by a finite- state device, and which also predicts the way in which (at least) certain ex- pressions with...
... parser for spontaneous speech that is at once both robust and finite- state. It is called PROFER, for Predictive, RO- bust, Finite- state parsER. Currently PROFER accepts a transcript as input. ... removed. Each initial state of a sub-net is assumed into its par- ent state which is equivalent to item-set for- mation in that parent state (Figure 7 left-side). Each final state of a sub-net ... begins the FSM always starts at state 0:0 (i.e., net 0, start state 0) and tra- verses an arc labeled by the top-level net name to the 0:1 state (i.e., net 0, final state 1), as il- lustrated...
... into purely statistical approaches (Sproat and Shih, 1990), statistical approaches which incorporate lexical knowledge (Fan and Tsai, 1988; Lin et al., 1993), and approaches that include lexical ... methods incorporated into a uniform stochastic finite- state model. We believe that the ap- proach reported here compares favorably with other reported approaches, though obviously it is impossible ... Foreign Names: ~i~::,,~ bu4- lang 3-shi4-wei2-ke4 'Brunswick'. We present a stochastic finite- state model for seg- menting Chinese text into dictionary entries and words derived via the...
... Stuttgartmike@adler.ims.uni-stuttgart.deAbstractThe paper presents two approaches topartial parsing of German: a taggertrained on dependency tuples, and a cas-caded finite- state parser (Abney, 1997).For the tagging approach, the effects ... resolved by expert disam-biguation modules. The performance of the finite- state parser has been compared with a very simpletagging approach which nevertheless gets morethan 50% of the dependency ... ResultsCurrently, the speed of the finite- state parser is at2430 Words Per Second, but this figure can still beimproved by compiling the backtracking necessi-tated in Abney's (1997) approach into the...
... third approach makes use of a finite set ofregisters that the FST can write to and read from(Cohen-Sygal and Wintner, 2006). Because it canremember relevant previous states, a “finite -state registered ... SoundPattern of English. Harper and Row, New York.Yael Cohen-Sygal and Shuly Wintner. 2006. Finite- state registered automata for non-concatenative mor-phology. Computational Linguistics, 32:49–82.Ann ... in the next section).Researchers within the finite state frameworkhave proposed a number of ways to deal withSemitic template morphology. One approach is tomake use of separate tapes for root...
... Roche, E. 1996. Parsing with Finite- State Trans- ducers, http://www.merl-com/reports/TR96- 30. Visited 12/03/99. Roche, E. and Schabes, Y., editors, 1997. Finite- State Language Processing, ... The regular expressions are translated into finite- state automata, and the union of the automata yields a single, determin- istic, finite- state, level recognizer, (Abney, 1996). Moreover, ... mentation on a small scale of finite- state meth- ods for noun phrases only, (Cooper, 1984; Rauch, 1993). However, large scale grammars for Swedish do exist, employing other approaches to parsing,...