Several algorithms are available for sentence alignment, but there is a lack of systematic evaluation and comparison of these algorithms under different conditions. In most cases, the factors which can significantly affect the performance of a sentence alignment algorithm have not been considered while evaluating. We have used a method for evaluation that can give a better estimate about a sent...

Semantic similarity is the essential part of automatic question answering system, and the computation of semantic similarity based on ontology can provide more various semantic information compared with the traditional method. In this paper, we firstly propose a semantic similarity algorithm used in the sentence similarity computation, combining relations of semantics, hierarchical structure an...

In this paper, we describe a solution method for sentence boundary detection in Turkish. The method exploits simple heuristic knowledge of Turkish syllabication and its phonetic rules for disambiguation of dots. The test accuracy of the algorithm is measured as 96.02%. The main contribution of this study is considered as presenting a new lexicon free method for differentiating EOS (end of sente...

This paper proposes a method of sentence-style conversion for generating spontaneous Japanese speech in a text-to-speech synthesis system. Since written language is different from spoken language linguistically, the speech by direct reading of written Japanese texts might be unnatural. The method takes a fully rulebased approach to convert the sentence style and to complement sentences, which a...

Relation extraction from texts is a research topic since the message understanding conferences. Most investigations dealt with English texts. However, the heuristics found for these do not perform well when applied to a language with free word order, as is, e.g., German. In this paper, we present a German annotated corpus for relation extraction. We have implemented the state of the art methods...

Even if we disregard all those nominal expressions employed with purely connotative meaning, that is, those which do not refer to any object, and confine our attention to nouns which are names of things, it is clear that no extant lexicon contains anywhere near enough expressions of this kind to suffice even for ordinary daily life. We cannot get along with any single common noun to refer to a ...

Predicting whether a sentence entails another sentence, contradicts another sentence, or is in a neutral entailment relation with another sentence is both an important NLP task as well as a sophisticated way of testing semantic sentence encoding models. In this project, I evaluate three sentence encoding models on the Stanford Natural Language Inference (SNLI) corpus. In particular, I investiga...

PURPOSE This article addresses sentence comprehension as a requirement of reading comprehension within the framework of the narrow view of reading that was advocated in the prologue to this forum. The focus is on the comprehension requirements of complex sentences, which are characteristic of school texts. METHOD Topics included in this discussion are (a) evidence linking sentence comprehensi...

This paper introduces Japanese lexical simplification. Japanese lexical simplification is the task of replacing complex words in a given sentence with simple words to produce a new sentence without changing the original meaning of the sentence. We propose a method of supervised regression learning to estimate complexity ordering of words with statistical features obtained from two types of Japa...