This paper reviews the current state of the art in natural language access to databases. This
has been a long-standing area of work in natural language processing. But though some …

Explorations in Automatic Thesaurus Discovery presents an automated method for creating
a first-draft thesaurus from raw text. It describes natural processing steps of tokenization …

We describe a novel technique and implemented system for constructing a
subcategorization dictionary from textual corpora. Each dictionary entry encodes the relative …

This paper describes an experimental comparison of seven different learning algorithms on
the problem of learning to disambiguate the meaning of a word from context. The algorithms …

We describe work toward the construction of a very wide-coverage probabilistic parsing
system for natural language (NL), based on LR parsing techniques. The system is intended …

This chapter presents standardized mean scores for individual linguistic features in the
medical corpus relative to the general distributions found in the contemporary reference …

Inheritance is an inference mechanism originally defined for semantic network formalisms. It
allows redundancy to be removed from the description of a domain by factoring out reusable …

Current research being undertaken at both Cambridge and IBM is aimed at the construction
of substantial lexicons containing lexical semantic information capable of use in automated …

The motivation for this book grew out of a dissatisfaction with textbooks about cognitive
science, a relatively new discipline that tries to integrate psychological, philosophical …

This paper focuses on the evaluation of some methods for the automatic acquisition of
Multiword Expressions (MWEs). First we investigate the hypothesis that MWEs can be …