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Book SynopsisThis technique is an example of one facet of the PLNLP approach: the use of natural language itself as a knowledge representation language -- an innovation that permits a wide variety of online text materials to be exploited as sources of semantic information.
Table of Contents1. Introduction; K. Jensen, G. Heidorn, S. Richardson. 2. Towards Transductive Linguistics; A.M. Ramer. 3. PEG: The PLNLP English Grammar; K. Jensen. 4. Experience with an Easily Computed Metric for Ranking Alternative Parses; G. Heidorn. 5. Parse Fitting and Prose Fixing; K. Jensen, G. Heidorn, L. Miller, Y. Ravin. 6. Grammar Errors and Style Weaknesses in a Text-Critiquing System; Y. Ravin. 7. The Experience of Developing a Large-Scale Natural Language Processing System: Critique; S. Richardson, L. Braden-Harder. 8. A Prototype English-Japanese Machine Translation System; T. Tsutsumi. 9. Broad-Coverage Machine Translation; D. Santos. 10. Building a Knowledge Base from Parsed Definitions; J. Klavans, M. Chodorow, N. Wacholder. 11. A Semantic Expert Using an Online Standard Dictionary; J.-L. Binot, K. Jensen. 12. Structural Patterns versus String Patterns for Extracting Semantic Information from Dictionaries; S. Montemagni, L. Vanderwende. 13. SENS: The System for Evaluating Noun Sequences; L. Vanderwende. 14. Disambiguating and Interpreting Verb Definitions; Y. Ravin. 15. Tailoring a Broad-Coverage Systems for the Analysis of Dictionary Definitions; S. Montemagni. 16. PEGASUS: Deriving Argument Structures after Syntax; K. Jensen. 17. A Two-Stage Algorithm to Parse Multi-Lingual Argument Structures; J.-P. Chanod, B. Harriehausen, S. Montemagni. 18. C-SHALT: English-to-Chinese Machine Translation Using Argument Structures; Ee Ah Choo, Koh Mui Koong, Low Hwee Boon, Tong Loong Cheong, Wan Kwee Ngim, Wee Li Kwang. 19. Sense Disambiguation Using Online Dictionaries; L. Braden-Harder. 20. Word-Sense Disambiguation by Examples; T. Tsutsumi. 21. Nominalization of Semantic Graphs; F. Segond. 22. The Paragraph as a Semantic Unit; W. Zadrozny, K. Jensen. References. Index.
