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A Method for Reinforcing Noun Countability Prediction Ryo NAGATA Atsuo KAWAI Koichiro MORIHIRO Naoki ISU Publication IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Vol.E90-D No.12 pp.2077-2086 Publication Date: 2007/12/01 Online ISSN: 1745-1361 DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.12.2077 Print ISSN: 0916-8532 Type of Manuscript: PAPER Category: Natural Language Processing Keyword: countability, countable, uncountable, one countability per discourse, machine translation, article errors, Full Text: PDF(372KB)>>
Summary: 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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