Natural Language Laboratory at Simon Fraser University
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The following papers are available online from the SFU Computing Science GN server. To access a paper, click on its format (PostScript or ASCII).
- Cercone, Nick J., Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich, Dan C. Fass, Chris
Groenboer, and Gary Hall (1993).
The SystemX Natural Language Interface: Design, Implementation, and
Evaluation.
Technical report CSS-IS TR 93-03, Centre for Systems Science, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, BC (53 pp., 97k, PostScript).
- Cercone, Nick J., Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich, Dan C. Fass, Chris Groeneboer, and Gary Hall (1994).
The SystemX Natural Language Interface to Relational Databases.
In J. G. Chen, F. G. Attia and D. L. Crabtree (Eds.) EXPERSYS-94:
Expert Systems Applications & Artificial Intelligence (Proceedings of the
Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems
Applications, Houston, TX, 1-2 December 1994). Gournay sur Marne,
France: i.i.t.t. International, pp. 461-466 (6 pp., 89k, PostScript).
- Fass, Dan C., and Nick J. Cercone (1992).
Research in Natural Language Processing at Simon Fraser University.
Canadian Artificial Intelligence Magazine, No. 29, summer 1992, pp. 11-20.
Also as Technical Report CSS-IS TR 91-12, Centre for Systems Science, Simon
Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. Available online by kind permission of Canadian AI Magazine (44 pp., ASCII).
- Fass, Dan, Gary Hall, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge, Fred Popowich and Malte von Ruden (1995).
A Distributed Intelligent Information System for Ad Hoc Knowledge Discovery
in Databases.
Technical Report CSS-IS TR 95-06, School of Computing Science/Department of
Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada (13 pp., PostScript).
- Laurens, Olivier (1995).
An Emacs User Interface for ALE.
Technical Report CSS-IS TR 95-07, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, June 1995. Available online (20 pp., PostScript).
- Popowich, Fred (1993).
Lexical Characterization of Local Dependencies with Tree Unification Grammar.
Technical Report CMPT-TR 93-13, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, September 1993 (40 pp., PostScript).
- Popowich, Fred (1994). Improving the Efficiency of a Generation Algorithm for Shake and Bake Machine Translation Using Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Technical Report CMPT-TR 94-07, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, November 1994 (10 pp., PostScript).
- Fred Popowich, Paul McFetridge, Dan C. Fass, and Gary Hall (1992).
Processing Complex Noun Phrases in a Natural Language Interface to a
Statistical Database.
In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (COLING-92), Volume I, Nantes, France, pp. 47-52 Available online by kind permission of COLING (6 pp., PostScript).
- Popowich, Fred (1995a).
Improving the Efficiency of a Generation Algorithm for Shake and Bake Machine Translation Using Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
In Proceedings of the Natural Language Understanding and Logic Programming
V, to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, 29-31 May 1995 (12 pp., PostScript [may not be readable by some previewers]).
- Popowich, Fred, and Carl Vogel (1990). Chart Parsing Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar.
Technical report CSS-IS/CMPT TR 90-01, Centre for Systems Science, Simon
Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada (PostScript).
- Turcato, Davide (1998).
Automatically Creating Bilingual Lexicons for Machine Translation from Bilingual Text,
In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational
Linguistics (COLING-98) and of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics (ACL-98), Montreal, Canada.
Available online (8 pp., 0.419MB,
PostScript)
- Turcato, Davide, Fred Popowich, Olivier Laurens, and Paul McFetridge (1998).
Re-Use of Linguistic Resources in MT.
In First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Granada, Spain, 28-30 May 1998.
Available online (11 pp., 0.314MB,
PostScript)
- Turcato, Davide, Olivier Laurens, Paul McFetridge, and Fred Popowich (1997). Inflectional Information in Transfer for Lexicalist MT.
In Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing , September 1997.
Available online (6 pp., 0.373MB,
PostScript)
The following theses are available via the Internet. Click on the format
(PostScript) to access the thesis.
- Barriere, Caroline (1997).
"From a Child's First Dictionary to a Knowledge Base of Conceptual Graphs."
PhD thesis (323 pp., 0.534MB, PostScript).
- Mosny, Milan (1996).
"Semantic Information Preprocessing for Natural Language Interfaces to Databases."
MSc thesis (137 pp., 245k, PostScript).
- Ueberla, Joerg (1994). "Analyzing and Improving Statistical Language Models for Speech Recognition." PhD thesis (140 pp., 371k, PostScript)
- Kodric, Sandi (1993). "On the Constituent Structure of Slovene." MSc thesis (75 pp., 135k, PostScript)
- Wiebe, Bruce (1992). "Modelling Autosegmental Phonology with Multi-Tape Finite State Transducers." MSc thesis (135 pp., 222k, PostScript)
- Pattabhiraman, T. (1992). "Aspects of Salience in Natural Language Generation." PhD thesis (191 pp., 342k, PostScript)
- Vogel, Carl (1990). "Inheritance Reasoning and Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar." MSc thesis (97 pp., 288k, PostScript)
The software in this section is available for noncommercial research purposes only.
HPSG-PL is a Prolog based implementation of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG).
Available online is a
UNIX tar file of complete system including manuals and TreeTool for displaying trees, and the user manual for the system (in PostScript format), which is also contained in the tar file.
Pleuk is a grammar development shell that supports many different grammatical formalisms including HPSG-PL. The code for Pleuk is available free for research purposes. Pleuk requires SICStus prolog version 2.1#9 or later, plus some extra programs available free from many Internet ftp sites.
The Attribute Logic Engine (ALE) is an integrated phrase structure parsing and definite clause logic programming system written in Prolog by
Bob Carpenter
and Gerald Penn. It is suitable for writing grammars in formalisms that use typed feature structures such as HPSG. ALE is available free for research purposes.
An Emacs interface to ALE has been written that is described in a technical report (Laurens, 1995) available online (20 pages, PostScript).
The code
for the interface is available free for research purposes.
The interface was developed under SICStus prolog version 2.1#9. It has not been
tested in any other prolog but should run under Quintus. The interface has been tested in emacs version 19.16.1 only. It should work with any version
that has X capabilities (mouse menubar, multiple frames), i.e., version 18 or higher.
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