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LRE
2010
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How to pick out token instances of English verb-particle constructions
We propose a method for automatically identifying individual instances of English verb-particle constructions (VPCs) in raw text. Our method employs the RASP parser and analysis of...
Su Nam Kim, Timothy Baldwin
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
"cba to check the spelling": Investigating Parser Performance on Discussion Forum Posts
We evaluate the Berkeley parser on text from an online discussion forum. We evaluate the parser output with and without gold tokens and spellings (using Sparseval and Parseval), a...
Jennifer Foster
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Simple Semi-Supervised Training of Part-Of-Speech Taggers
Most attempts to train part-of-speech taggers on a mixture of labeled and unlabeled data have failed. In this work stacked learning is used to reduce tagging to a classification t...
Anders Søgaard
CSL
2006
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Adaptation of maximum entropy capitalizer: Little data can help a lot
A novel technique for maximum "a posteriori" (MAP) adaptation of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) and maximum entropy Markov models (MEMM) is presented. The technique is applied...
Ciprian Chelba, Alex Acero
NAACL
1994
13 years 5 months ago
High-Accuracy Large-Vocabulary Speech Recognition Using Mixture Tying and Consistency Modeling
Improved acoustic modeling can significantly decrease the error rate in large-vocabulary speech recognition. Our approach to the problem is twofold. We first propose a scheme that...
Vassilios Digalakis, Hy Murveit
ACL
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Learning Parse and Translation Decisions from Examples with Rich Context
We present a knowledge and context-based system for parsing and translating natural language and evaluate it on sentences from the Wall Street Journal. Applying machine learning t...
Ulf Hermjakob, Raymond J. Mooney
ACL
1997
13 years 5 months ago
Three Generative, Lexicalised Models for Statistical Parsing
In this paper we first propose a new statistical parsing model, which is a generative model of lexicalised context-free grammar. We then extend the model to include a probabilisti...
Michael Collins
LREC
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Towards Semi-Automated Annotation for Prepositional Phrase Attachment
This paper investigates whether high-quality annotations for tasks involving semantic disambiguation can be obtained without a major investment in time or expense. We examine the ...
Sara Rosenthal, William Lipovsky, Kathleen McKeown...