2 papers
cmp-lg1997
FASTUS: A Cascaded Finite-State Transducer for Extracting Information from Natural-Language Text
Jerry R. Hobbs, Douglas Appelt, John Bear +4
FASTUS is a system for extracting information from natural language text for entry into a database and for other applications. It works essentially as a cascaded, nondeterministic…
cmp-lg1997
A Theory of Parallelism and the Case of VP Ellipsis
Jerry R. Hobbs, Andrew Kehler
We provide a general account of parallelism in discourse, and apply it to the special case of resolving possible readings for instances of VP ellipsis. We show how several problema…