Estimation of sentence order (sometimes referred to as sentence ordering) is one of the problems that arise in sentence generation and sentence correction. When generating a text that consists of multiple sentences, it is necessary to arrange the sentences in an appropriate order so that the text can be understood easily. In this study, we proposed a new method using supervised machine learning...

In consideration of the previous workshop, we participate in TSC-3 to make improvements on important sentence extraction used in dry run of TSC-2. We formulate important sentence extraction as a combinational optimization problem that determines a set of sentences containing as many important information fragments as possible. In addition to the extraction method, we reinforce peripheral compon...

This paper proposes a method to extract rules for anaphora resolution of Japanese zero pronouns from aligned sentence pairs. The method focuses on the characteristics of Japanese and English in which both the language families and the distribution of zero pronouns are very different. In this method, zero pronouns in the Japanese sentence and the English translation equivalents of their antecede...

Conventional QA systems cannot answer to the questions composed of two or more sentences. Therefore, we aim to construct a QA system that can answer such multiple-sentence questions. As the first stage, we propose a method for classifying multiple-sentence questions into question types. Specifically, we first extract the core sentence from a given question text. We use the core sentence and its...

This paper proposes an automatic method of detecting grammar elements that decrease readability in a Japanese sentence. The method consists of two components: (1) the check list of the grammar elements that should be detected; and (2) the detector, which is a search program of the grammar elements from a sentence. By defining a readability level for every grammar element, we can find which part...

Millstream systems have been proposed as a non-hierarchical method for modelling natural language. Millstream configurations represent and connect multiple structural aspects of sentences. We present a method by which the Millstream configurations corresponding to a sentence are constructed. The construction is incremental, that is, it proceeds as the sentence is being read and is complete when...

Most statistical machine translation systems use phrase-to-phrase translations to capture local context information, leading to better lexical choice and more reliable local reordering. The quality of the phrase alignment is crucial to the quality of the resulting translations. Here, we propose a new phrase alignment method, not based on the Viterbi path of word alignment models. Phrase alignme...

It is necessary to find a proper arrangement of sentences in order to generate a well-organized summary from multiple documents. In this paper we describe an approach to coherent sentence ordering for summarizing newspaper articles. Since there is no guarantee that chronological ordering of extracted sentences, which is widely used by conventional summarization system, arranges each sentence be...

This paper proposes a method for computing the temporal aspects of the interpretations of a variety of German sentences. The method is strictly modular in the sense that it allows each meaning-bearing sentence constituent to make its own, separate, contribution to the semantic representation of any sentence containing it. The semantic representation of a sentence is reached in several stages. F...