5 papers
Discourse Coherence and Shifting Centers in Japanese Texts
Masayo Iida
In languages such as Japanese, the use of {\it zeros}, unexpressed arguments of the verb, in utterances that shift the topic involves a risk that the meaning intended by the speake…
Japanese Discourse and the Process of Centering
Marilyn Walker, Masayo Iida, Sharon Cote
This paper has three aims: (1) to generalize a computational account of the discourse process called {\sc centering}, (2) to apply this account to discourse processing in Japanese…
Centering in Japanese Discourse
Marilyn Walker, Masayo Iida, Sharon Cote
In this paper we propose a computational treatment of the resolution of zero pronouns in Japanese discourse, using an adaptation of the centering algorithm. We are able to factor l…
Filling Knowledge Gaps in a Broad-Coverage Machine Translation System
Kevin Knight, Ishwar Chander, Matthew Haines +6
Knowledge-based machine translation (KBMT) techniques yield high quality in domains with detailed semantic models, limited vocabulary, and controlled input grammar. Scaling up alon…
Integrating Knowledge Bases and Statistics in MT
Kevin Knight, Ishwar Chander, Matthew Haines +7
We summarize recent machine translation (MT) research at the Information Sciences Institute of USC, and we describe its application to the development of a Japanese-English newspap…