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Reversible logic grammars for machine translation
Marc Dymetman,Pierre Isabelle +1 more
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The CRITTER translation system makes use of a single grammar to perform analysis and synthesis tasks, which is a variant of DCG (Definite Clause Grammars), in which annotations have been added to allow for dual compilations of the grammar intoAnalysis and synthesis Prolog programs sharing the same declarative content.Abstract:
The CRITTER translation system makes use of a single grammar to perform analysis and synthesis tasks. The formalism used is a variant of DCG (Definite Clause Grammars), in which annotations have been added to allow for dual compilations of the grammar into analysis and synthesis Prolog programs sharing the same declarative content. These annotations are of two types: 1) annotations separating the declarative content of rules (logic) from goal-processing order (control), and 2) annotations which act as directives for the compiler(s) to perform "optimization" transformations on groups of rules making the target Prolog procedures better adapted to the analysis or synthesis task at hand. 1. THE TRANSLATION MODEL.read more
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Semantic-head-driven generation
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Using argumentation to control lexical choice: a functional unification implementation
TL;DR: New surface generation techniques that improve on both aspects of surface generation are presented, which allow a purely conceptual input to be expressed by a greater variety of linguistic forms and with more sensitivity to pragmatic factors than was previously possible.
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Generation of text from logical formulae
TL;DR: A simple and efficient algorithm for generating text which has been developed for use in machine translation, but will have wider application in natural language processing, and can be adapted to phrase-structure grammars, and to more complex semantic representations.
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Acquisition automatique de sens pour la désambiguïsation et la sélection lexicale en traduction
TL;DR: In this paper, a methode d'acquisition de sens permettant d'etablir des correspondances semantiques de granularite variable entre les mots de de two langues en relation de traduction is proposed.
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Bibliography of Research in Natural Language Generation
TL;DR: This document provides a 1200+ entry bibliography of natural language generation research and provides a BibTeX sources for the bibliography.
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Information-based syntax and semantics
Carl Pollard,Ivan A. Sag +1 more
TL;DR: The particular theory presented, head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) - so-called because of its central notion of the grammatical head - is an information-based (or 'unification-based' theory that has its roots in a number of different research programs within linguistics and neighboring disciplines such as philosophy and computer science.
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Definite clause grammars for language analysis—A survey of the formalism and a comparison with augmented transition networks
Fernando Pereira,David H. Warren +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that DCGs can be at least as efficient as ATNs, whilst the DCG formalism is clearer, more concise and in practice more powerful.
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Proceedings of the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
Michael Barlow,Dan Flickinger,Michael T. Wescoat,Mark Cobler,Susannah MacKaye,Jeffrey Goldberg,Mary Dalrymple,Megan J. Crowhurst +7 more
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Theoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing
TL;DR: This book discusses the development of natural language processing techniques through the lens of formal versus Commonsense Semantics, and the role of metaphor in this process.
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Extraposition grammars
TL;DR: An extension of definite clause grammars, and are similarly defined in terms of logic clauses, which makes it easy to describe left extraposition of constituents, an important feature of natural language syntax.