The framework we adopted for customizing linguistic knowledge to individual application domains is an integration of symbolic and statistical approaches. In order to acquire domai...
The experiments described here have been done in connection with the LS-GRAM project, which is concerned with the development of large scale grammars and thus foreseen the coverag...
A central problem in historical linguistics is the identification of historically related cognate words. We present a generative phylogenetic model for automatically inducing cogn...
Statistical translation models that try to capture the recursive structure of language have been widely adopted over the last few years. These models make use of varying amounts o...
Treebank annotation is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task. In this paper, we show that a simple statistical ranking model can significantly improve treebanking efficiency b...