Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora

Abstract

Papers selected from the Workshop on Very Large Corpora, from the initial one held 1993 in Columbus, Ohio, the second one held 1994 in Kyoto, the third one held 1995 in Cambridge, Mass., and from a complementary workshop entitled "From texts to tags," held 1995 in Dublin.Implementation and Evaluation of a German HMM for POS Disambiguation / Helmut Feldweg -- Improvements in Part-of-Speech Tagging with an Application To German / Helmut Schmid -- Unsupervised Learning of Disambiguation Rules for Part-of-Speech Tagging / Eric Brill and Mihai Pop -- Tagging French without Lexical Probabilities - Combining Linguistic Knowledge and Statistical Learning / Evelyne Tzoukermann, Dragomir Radev and William Gale -- Example-Based Sense Tagging of Running Chinese Text / Xiang Tong, Chang-ning Huang and Cheng-ming Guo -- Disambiguating Noun Groupings with Respect to WordNet Senses / Philip Resnik -- A Comparison of Corpus-based Techniques for Restoring Accents in Spanish and French Text / David Yarowsky -- Beyond Word N-Grams / Fernando Pereira, Yoram Singer and Naftali Tishby -- Statistical Augmentation of a Chinese Machine-Readable Dictionary / Pascale Fung and Dekai Wu.Text Chunking Using Transformation-based Learning / Lance Ramshaw and Mitchell P. Marcus -- Prepositional Phrase Attachment through a Backed-off Model / Michael Collins and James Brooks -- On the Unsupervised Induction of Phrase-Structure Grammars / Carl de Marcken -- Robust Bilingual Word Alignment for Machine Aided Translation / Ido Dagan, Kenneth Church and William Gale -- Iterative Alignment of Syntactic Structures for a Bilingual Corpus / Ralph Grishman -- Trainable Coarse Bilingual Grammars for Parallel Text Bracketing / Dekai Wu -- Comparative Discourse Analysis of Parallel Texts / Pim van der Eijk -- Comparing the Retrieval Performance of English and Japanese Text Databases / Hideo Fujii and W. B. Croft -- Inverse Document Frequency (IDF): A Measure of Deviations from Poisson / Kenneth Church and William Gale.Includes bibliographical references and index.