This paper presents a statistical decision procedure for lexical ambiguity resolution. The algorithm exploits both local syntactic patterns and more distant collocational evidence...
This paper proposes a method to resolve the reference of deictic Japanese zero pronouns which can be implemented in a practical machine translation system. This method focuses on ...
A method for extracting lexical translations from non-aligned corpora is proposed to cope with the unavailability of large aligned corpus. The assumption that "translations o...
One method for reducing the time required for plan generation is to learn search control rules from experience. Most of the recent work in learning search control knowledge has co...
In this paper we demonstrate that speech recognition can be effectively applied to information retrieval (IR) applications. Our system exploits the fact that the intended words of...