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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information

A Method for Reinforcing Noun Countability Prediction

Ryo NAGATA, Atsuo KAWAI, Koichiro MORIHIRO, Naoki ISU

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This paper proposes a method for reinforcing noun countability prediction, which plays a crucial role in demarcating correct determiners in machine translation and error detection. The proposed method reinforces countability prediction by introducing a novel heuristics called one countability per discourse. It claims that when a noun appears more than once in a discourse, all instances will share identical countability. The basic idea of the proposed method is that mispredictions can be corrected by efficiently using one countability per discourse heuristics. Experiments show that the proposed method successfully reinforces countability prediction and outperforms other methods used for comparison. In addition to its performance, it has two advantages over earlier methods: (i) it is applicable to any countability prediction method, and (ii) it requires no human intervention to reinforce countability prediction.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E90-D No.12 pp.2077-2086
Publication Date
2007/12/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.12.2077
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Natural Language Processing

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