Subject: *** NEW NLP BOOK ***
From: Nicolas Nicolov <nicolas@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
To: elsnet-list@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 19:14:13 +0000



[ if you get many duplicates maybe you have a lot of interests :-) ]


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      ===  RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGES PROCESSING  ===
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      ===            R.Mitkov & N.Nicolov (eds)             ===
      ===      John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia       ===
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http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/lab/nlp/ranlp/97.html [Volume by J.Benjamins]

The RANLP web site contains: 

   1. PS version of the front pages of the book (inc. Table of Contents)
   2. Abstracts of all papers (sorry - can't put the actual papers :-)
   3. Bibtex entries of the book and all papers
   4. Link to the on-line ordering page at John Benjamins

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@BOOK{Mitkov-Nicolov'97,
   EDITOR    = {Ruslan Mitkov and Nicolas Nicolov},
   TITLE     = {Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing},
   YEAR      = 1997,
   PUBLISHER = {John Benjamins},
   ADDRESS   = {Amsterdam/Philadelphia},
   SERIES    = {Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT)},
   VOLUME    = 136
   TOTALPAGES= {xii, 474},
   ISBN      = {90 272 3640 2},
   PRICE     = {Hfl. 180} }
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 
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Editors' Foreword							ix

I. MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX

Aravind K. Joshi
	Some linguistic, computational and statistical implications
	of lexicalised grammars						3

Allan Ramsay & Reinhard Schaler
	Case and word order in English and German			15

Khalil Simaan
	An optimised algorithm for data oriented parsing		35

Marcel Cori, Michel de Fornel & Jean-Marie Marandin
	Parsing repairs							47

Matthew F. Hurst
	Parsing for targeted errors in controlled languages		59

Ismail Biskri & Jean-Pierre Descles
	Applicative and combinatory categorial grammar (from 
	syntax to functional semantics)					71

Udo Hahn & Michael Strube
	ParseTalk about textual ellipsis				85

Inaki Alegria, Xabier Artola & Kepa Sarasola
	Improving a robust morphological analyser using lexical
	transducers							97


II. SEMANTICS AND DISAMBIGUATION		 

Hideki Kozima & Akira Ito
	Context-sensitive word distance by adaptive scaling of a 
	semantic space							111

M. Victoria Arranz, Ian Radford, Sofia Ananiadou & Jun-ichi Tsujii
	Towards a sublanguage-based semantic clustering algorithm	125

Roberto Basili, Michelangelo Della Rocca, Maria Teresa Pazienza & 
	Paola Velardi
	Contexts and categories: tuning a general purpose verb
	classification to sublanguages					137

Akito Nagai, Yasushi Ishikawa & Kunio Nakajima
	Concept-driven search algorithm incorporating semantic
	interpretation and speech recognition				149

Eneko Agirre & German Rigau
	A proposal for word sense disambiguation using conceptual
	distance							161

Olivier Ferret & Brigitte Grau
	An episodic memory for understanding and learning		173

Christian Boitet & Mutsuko Tomokiyo
	Ambiguities and ambiguity labelling: towards ambiguity data
	bases								185


III. DISCOURSE		 

Malgorzata E. Stys & Stefan S. Zemke
	Incorporating discourse aspects in English - Polish MT		213

Ruslan Mitkov
	Two engines are better than one: generating more power and 
	confidence in the search for the antecedent			225

Tadashi Nomoto
	Effects of grammatical annotation on a topic identification
	task								235

Wiebke Ramm
	Discourse constraints on theme selection			247

Geert-Jan M. Kruijff & Jan Schaake
	Discerning relevant information in discourses using TFA		259


IV. GENERATION		 

Nicolas Nicolov, Chris Mellish & Graeme Ritchie
	Approximate chart generation from non-hierarchical
	representations							273

Christer Samuelsson
	Example-based optimisation of surface-generation tables		295

Michael Zock
	Sentence generation by pattern matching: the problem of 
	syntactic choice						317

Ching-Long Yeh & Chris Mellish
	An empirical study on the generation of descriptions for
	nominal anaphors in Chinese					353

Kalina Bontcheva
	Generation of multilingual explanations from conceptual graphs	365


V. CORPUS PROCESSING AND APPLICATIONS

Jun'ichi Tsujii
	Machine Translation: productivity and conventionality of
	language							377

Ye-Yi Wang & Alex Waibel
	Connectionist F-structure transfer				393

Yuji Matsumoto & Mihoko Kitamura
	Acquisition of translation rules from parallel corpora		405

Harris V. Papageorgiou
	Clause recognition in the framework of alignment		417

Daniel B. Jones & Harold Somers
	Bilingual vocabulary estimation from noisy parallel corpora 
	using variable bag estimation					427

Jung Ho Shin, Young S. Han & Key-Sun Choi
	A HMM part-of-speech tagger for Korean with wordphrasal
	relations							439

Ivan Bretan, Mans Engstedt & Bjorn Gamback
	A multimodal environment for telecommunication specifications	451

List and Addresses of Contributors					463

Index of Subjects and Terms						469
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