... is one of the main goals of foreign
language teaching nowadays. This can
be reached by allowing learners to use
and train their knowledge of a foreign
language in realistic dialogue-style exer- ... shows a simplified part of a
discourse grammar, which models an information
gathering dialogue such as is necessary in the case
of collecting information about an accident. Ad-
di...
... U.K.
ABSTRACT
In this paper we provide an abstract
characterisation of different kinds of robust
processing in Machine Translation and Natural
Language Processing systems in terms of the kinds ...
processing in Machine Translation (MT) with
relevance to other areas of Natural Language
Processing (NLP). That is, processing which is
resistant to malfunctioning however cau...
...
within it (such as the syntactic and semantic pro-
cessors), apply maximally to any input, thereby con-
structing a maximal, partial interpretation for a given
partial input signal. This entails ... only link in
the Chain we refer to it as a 'unit' Chain, representing
an unmoved element.
We noted above that each representation's schema
provides a natural local...
... data,
asking a question, and answering a question all can be
part of obtaining information. 2 So, actions at each level
form a tree structure in which each node represents an
action that a ... level:
the
domain level
models domain goals such as
travel-
ing by train;
the
problem-solving level,
plan-construction
goals such as
instantiating a variable in a plan;
an...
... both natural language understanding and
advice generation in the domain of narrative in-
struction. The background application is a fully
automated plot analysis agent to improve the writ-
ing ... nar-
rative tutoring systems (Robertson and Wiemer-
Hastings, 2002). As shown by participatory de-
sign studies, teachers are interested in a plot anal-
ysis agent that can give online nat...
... Events, and
Relations
An important property of a natural language system
is that it often has only partial information about the
individuals (objects, events, and relations) that are talked
about. ... representation by introducing the
predicate
ROLE
and making rolenames into individuals
in the domain.
ROLE(o, r, v)
asserts that individual o has
a role named r that is filled wi...
... generation of contrastive
accent and propose an alternative method
that is feasible and computationally at-
tractive in data-to-speech systems.
1 Motivation
The placement of pitch accent plays ... typed data structure containing data on a soccer
match. So-called syntactic templates (van Deemter
and Odijk, 1995) are used to express parts of this
data structure. In GoalGetter, onl...
...
Adverbial
Adverbial or postmodifier
@CC Coordinator
@CS Subordinator
AUX
Auxiliary
MV Main verb
MAINC
mainc
Main clause
Non-finite verbal
fragment
n-head Nominal fragment
a- head ... Helsinki, 1991.
[Tapanainen, 1992] Past Tapanainen. Jk/irellisiin
automaatteihin perustuva luonnollisen kielen
j/isennin (A finite state parser of natural lan-
guage). Licentiate (pre-doctoral)...
... gives a man an iron.
Nancy likes a man who has an iron that
(9) a woman gave him.
3 Negation
Concerning predicate negation, we will assume that
the scope of negation does not embrace the ...
The traditional way to translate
no
in DRT is based
on (17). 4 In this framework we use predicate nega-
4Several proposals have been made to treat gener-
alized quantifiers in DRT. A...