Browsing MIT by Subject "natural language processing"
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Exploiting Lexical Regularities in Designing Natural Language Systems
(1988-04-01)This paper presents the lexical component of the START Question Answering system developed at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. START is able to interpret correctly a wide range of semantic relationships associated ...
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Gestural Cues for Sentence Segmentation
(2005-04-19)In human-human dialogues, face-to-face meetings are often preferred over phone conversations.One explanation is that non-verbal modalities such as gesture provide additionalinformation, making communication more efficient ...
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Identifying Expression Fingerprints using Linguistic Information
(2005-11-18)This thesis presents a technology to complement taxation-based policy proposals aimed at addressing the digital copyright problem. Theapproach presented facilitates identification of intellectual propertyusing expression ...
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Parsing and Linguistic Explanation
(1985-04-01)This article summarizes and extends recent results linking deterministic parsing to observed "locality principles" in syntax. It also argues that grammatical theories based on explicit phrase structure rules are unlikely ...
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UNITRAN: An Interlingual Machine Translation System
(1987-12-01)This report describes the UNITRAN (UNIversal TRANslator) system, an implementation of a principle-based approach to natural language translation. The system is "interlingual", i.e., the model is based on universal ...