Robustness, the ability to analyze any input regardless of its grammaticality, is a desirable property for any system dealing with unrestricted natural language text. Error-repair...
This paper presents Delphi, the natural language component of the BBN Spoken Language System. Delphi is a domainindependent natural language question answering system that is soli...
Madeleine Bates, Robert J. Bobrow, Robert Ingria, ...
We present a novel image operator that seeks to find the value of stroke width for each image pixel, and demonstrate its use on the task of text detection in natural images. The s...
We use a generative history-based model to predict the most likely derivation of a dependency parse. Our probabilistic model is based on Incremental Sigmoid Belief Networks, a rec...
We present a parser for German that achieves a competitive accuracy on unrestricted input while maintaining a coverage of 100%. By writing well-formedness rules as declarative, def...