A new form of abduction—least specific abduction—is proposed as being more appropriate to the task of interpreting natural language than the forms that have been used in the traditional diagnostic and design-synthesis applications of abduction.
Stuart M. Shieber, Gertjan Van Noord, Robert C. Moore, & Fernando C. N. Pereira
We present an algorithm for generating strings from logical form encodings that improves upon previous algorithm in that it places fewer restrictions on the class of grammars to which it is applicable.
Like most linguistic theories, the theory of generalized phrase structure grammar (GPSG) has described language axiomatically, that is, as a set of universal and language-specific constraints on the well-formedness of linguistic elements of some sort.
This document outlines a system for labeling self-repairs in spontaneous speech. The system marks the location and extent of a repair, as well as relevant words in the region of the repair.
Armar A. Archbold, Barbara J. Grosz, & Daniel Sagalowicz
TEAM (Transportable English Data Access Manager) is a computer system designed to acquire information about a (local or remote) database, and subsequently to interpret and answer questions addressed to the database in a subset of natural language.
The use of a single grammar for both parsing and generation is an idea with a certain elegance, the desirability of which several researchers have noted.
The syntactic structure of a sentence often manifests quite clearly the predicate-argument structure and relations of grammatical subordination. But scope dependencies are not so transparent.
This report includes the results of a series of experiments to compare the efficiency of training methods using (1, 0) and (+1,-1) representatives for patterns. It also presents a theoretical explanation which deals with a single TLV rather than with a network of TLV’s as used in the experiments.
