MIME-Version: 1.0 Server: CERN/3.0 Date: Tuesday, 07-Jan-97 15:45:33 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 3564 Last-Modified: Monday, 25-Nov-96 21:50:12 GMT UTCS nl-acq proposed papers

Natural Language Acquisition Group

at the University of Texas at Austin

Currently Proposed Papers

Basili, Paziena, and Velardi: " An empirical approach to natural language processing "
AI Journal, Vol 85
proposed by Ray Mooney, October 26, 1996

Dekai Wu: " A Polynomial-Time Algorithm for Statistical Machine Translation "
Proceedings of 34th Annual Meeting of the ACL (1996), pp. 152-158
proposed by Ray Mooney, July 8, 1996

Ken Yip & Gerald Sussman: " A Computational Model for the Acquisition and Use of Phonological Knowledge "
download from ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/1500-1999/AIM-1575.ps.Z
MIT AI Lab, AI Memo 1575
Comment: Some more on past tense (and plurals) using a symbolic constraint method.
proposed by Ray Mooney, May 2, 1996

Ellen Riloff: " Automatically Generating Extraction Patterns from Untagged Text "
download from http://www.cs.utah.edu/~riloff/psfiles/aaai96.ps (6 pages)
accepted for AAAI-96
see also Riloff, E. and Shoen, J. paper below
proposed by Ulf Hermjakob, April 26, 1996

S. Soderland, D. Fisher, J. Aseltine and W. Lehnert: " CRYSTAL: Inducing a Conceptual Dictionary "
IJCAI 1995
pp. 1314-1319
proposed by Mary Elaine Califf, March 18, 1996
MEC: I haven't read the paper, but the talk was fairly good. It's basically an application of clustering.

R. Bod.: " Using an Annotated Language Corpus as a Virtual Stochastic Grammar "
AAAI'93
pp. 778-783
proposed by Ray Mooney, September 13, 1995

Riloff, E. and Shoen, J.: "Automatically Acquiring Conceptual Patterns without an Annotated Corpus"
in WVLC-95, p. 148-162.
this isn't as good, but ok
proposed by Cindi Thompson, July 19, 1995

Niyogi, Partha. Berwick, Robert C.: "A Markov Language Learning Model for Finite Parameter Spaces"
ACL Proc. of 32nd Annual Meeting, 1994, pp. 171-80
proposed by Ken Samuel, Sept. 28, 1994

Soderland and Lehnert: "Corpus-Driven Knowledge Acquisition for Discourse Analysis."
AAAI94
proposed by John Zelle, Sept. 15, 1994

Hastins and Lytinen: "The ups and downs of lexical acquisition."
AAAI94
proposed by John Zelle, Sept. 15, 1994

Patricia M. Greenfield and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh: " Grammatical Combination in Pan Paniscus: Processes of Learning and Invention in the Evolution and Development of Language"
from ``Language'' and Intelligence in Monkeys and Apes: Comparative Developmental Perspectives
Cambridge University Press, 1989
Editors: Sue Taylor Parker and Kathleen Rita Gibson
Risto: entertaining paper about animal learning of language
proposed by Risto Miikkulainen, Dec. 20, 1993

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