This paper describes the development of QuestionBank, a corpus of 4000 parseannotated questions for (i) use in training parsers employed in QA, and (ii) evaluation of question par...
We present a simple method for transferring dependency parsers from source languages with labeled training data to target languages without labeled training data. We first demons...
We have developed a system to process database queries over composed data providing web services. The queries are transformed into execution plans containing an operator that invok...
In this paper we introduce the new task of social event extraction from text. We distinguish two broad types of social events depending on whether only one or both parties are awa...
We evaluate discriminative parse reranking and parser self-training on a new English test set using four versions of the Charniak parser and a variety of parser evaluation metrics...