Marjorie McShane

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2004–2016

Marjorie McShane wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2004–2016, most of them on Word sense disambiguation, Machine translation; often with Sergei Nirenburg, Stephen Beale, Petr Babkin.

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Papers

Detection and Resolution of Verb Phrase Ellipsis (2016)
The paper describes ViPER, a rule-based system that detects and resolves VP ellipsis. It uses syntactic parallelism, modality correlations and the split between core and peripheral sentence constituents. Its key claim is that some cases are easy enough to resolve with high confidence before full semantic…
Document Authoring the Bible for Minority Language Translation (2005)
The paper describes The Bible Translator's Assistant (TBTA), a document-authoring and generation system built by the Summer Institute of Linguistics with a university group.
OntoSem Methods for Processing Semantic Ellipsis (2004)
Syntactic ellipsis leaves out required syntax. Semantic ellipsis leaves out meaning that a full interpretation needs, even when the syntax is complete. An example is a comparison of two percentages across two years that leaves out the verb (hiring). The paper describes how the OntoSem environment rebuilds such…