7 papers
Human-Computer Conversation
Yorick Wilks, Roberta Catizone
The article surveys a little of the history of the technology, sets out the main current theoretical approaches in brief, and discusses the on-going opposition between theoretical…
An ascription-based approach to speech acts
Mark Lee, Yorick Wilks
The two principal areas of natural language processing research in pragmatics are belief modelling and speech act processing. Belief modelling is the development of techniques to r…
Is Word Sense Disambiguation just one more NLP task?
Yorick Wilks
This paper compares the tasks of part-of-speech (POS) tagging and word-sense-tagging or disambiguation (WSD), and argues that the tasks are not related by fineness of grain or anyt…
The "Fodor"-FODOR fallacy bites back
Yorick Wilks
The paper argues that Fodor and Lepore are misguided in their attack on Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon, largely because their argument rests on a traditional, but implausible and…
Compacting the Penn Treebank Grammar
Alexander Krotov, Mark Hepple, Robert Gaizauskas +1
Treebanks, such as the Penn Treebank (PTB), offer a simple approach to obtaining a broad coverage grammar: one can simply read the grammar off the parse trees in the treebank. Whil…
Word Sense Disambiguation using Optimised Combinations of Knowledge Sources
Yorick Wilks, Mark Stevenson
Word sense disambiguation algorithms, with few exceptions, have made use of only one lexical knowledge source. We describe a system which performs unrestricted word sense disambigu…