Main description:
This volume is based on contributions from the First International Conference on 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' (RANLP'95) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 14-16 September 1995. This conference was one of the most important and competitively reviewed conferences in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for 1995 with submissions from more than 30 countries. Of the 48 papers presented at RANLP'95, the best (revised) papers have been selected for this book, in the hope that they reflect the most significant and promising trends (and latest successful results) in NLP.
The book is organised thematically and the contributions are grouped according to the traditional topics found in NLP: morphology, syntax, grammars, parsing, semantics, discourse, grammars, generation, machine translation, corpus processing and multimedia. To help the reader find his/her way, the authors have prepared an extensive index which contains major terms used in NLP; an index of authors which lists the names of the authors and the page numbers of their paper; a list of figures; and a list of tables.
This book will be of interest to researchers, lecturers and graduate students interested in Natural Language Processing and more specifically to those who work in Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Machine Translation.
Table of contents:
- Editors' foreword
- 1. Morphology and syntax
- Some linguistic, computational and statistical implications of lexical grammars
- Case and word order in English and German
- An optimised algorithm for data oriented parsing
- Parsing repairs
- Parsing for targeted errors in controlled languages
- Applicative and combinatiry categorical grammar (from syntax to functional semantics)
- ParseTalk about textual ellipsis
- Improving a robust morphological analyser using lexical transducers
- 2. Semantics disambiguation
- Context-sensitive word distance by adaptive scaling of a semantic space
- Towards a sublanguage-based semantic clustering algorithm
- Contexts and categories
- Concept-driven search algotithm incorporating semantic interpretation and speech recognition
- A proposal for word sense disambiguation using conceptual distance
- A episodic memory for understanding and learning
- Ambiguities and ambiguity labelling
- 3. Discourse
- Incorporating discourse aspects in English 2; Polish MT
- Two engines are better than one
- Effects of grammatical annotation on a topic identification task
- Discourse constraints on theme selection
- Discerning relevant information in discoursing using TFA
- 4. Generation
- Approximate chart generation from non-hierarchical representations
- Example-based optimisation of surface-generation tables
- Semtence generation by pattern matching
- An empirical study on the generation of descriptions for nominal anaphors in Chinese
- Generation of multilingual explanations from conceptual graphs
- 5. Corpus processing and applications
- Machine translation
- Connectionist F-structure transfer
- Acquisition of translation rules from parallel corpora
- Clause recognition in the framework of alignment
- Bilingual vocabulary estimation from noisy parallel corpora using variable bag estimation
- A HMM part-of-speech tagger for Korean with wordphrasal relations
- A multimodal environment for telecommunication specifications
- List and addresses of contributors
- Index of subjects and terms
This volume is based on contributions from the First International Conference on 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' (RANLP'95) held in Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria, 14-16 September 1995. This conference was one of the most important and competitively reviewed conferences in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for 1995 with submissions from more than 30 countries. Of the 48 papers presented at RANLP'95, the best (revised) papers have been selected for this book, in the hope that they reflect the most significant and promising trends (and latest successful results) in NLP.
The book is organised thematically and the contributions are grouped according to the traditional topics found in NLP: morphology, syntax, grammars, parsing, semantics, discourse, grammars, generation, machine translation, corpus processing and multimedia. To help the reader find his/her way, the authors have prepared an extensive index which contains major terms used in NLP; an index of authors which lists the names of the authors and the page numbers of their paper; a list of figures; and a list of tables.
This book will be of interest to researchers, lecturers and graduate students interested in Natural Language Processing and more specifically to those who work in Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Machine Translation.
Table of contents:
- Editors' foreword
- 1. Morphology and syntax
- Some linguistic, computational and statistical implications of lexical grammars
- Case and word order in English and German
- An optimised algorithm for data oriented parsing
- Parsing repairs
- Parsing for targeted errors in controlled languages
- Applicative and combinatiry categorical grammar (from syntax to functional semantics)
- ParseTalk about textual ellipsis
- Improving a robust morphological analyser using lexical transducers
- 2. Semantics disambiguation
- Context-sensitive word distance by adaptive scaling of a semantic space
- Towards a sublanguage-based semantic clustering algorithm
- Contexts and categories
- Concept-driven search algotithm incorporating semantic interpretation and speech recognition
- A proposal for word sense disambiguation using conceptual distance
- A episodic memory for understanding and learning
- Ambiguities and ambiguity labelling
- 3. Discourse
- Incorporating discourse aspects in English 2; Polish MT
- Two engines are better than one
- Effects of grammatical annotation on a topic identification task
- Discourse constraints on theme selection
- Discerning relevant information in discoursing using TFA
- 4. Generation
- Approximate chart generation from non-hierarchical representations
- Example-based optimisation of surface-generation tables
- Semtence generation by pattern matching
- An empirical study on the generation of descriptions for nominal anaphors in Chinese
- Generation of multilingual explanations from conceptual graphs
- 5. Corpus processing and applications
- Machine translation
- Connectionist F-structure transfer
- Acquisition of translation rules from parallel corpora
- Clause recognition in the framework of alignment
- Bilingual vocabulary estimation from noisy parallel corpora using variable bag estimation
- A HMM part-of-speech tagger for Korean with wordphrasal relations
- A multimodal environment for telecommunication specifications
- List and addresses of contributors
- Index of subjects and terms