Discriminative methods have shown significant improvements over traditional generative methods in many machine learning applications, but there has been difficulty in extending th...
We present an approach to pronoun resolution based on syntactic paths. Through a simple bootstrapping procedure, we learn the likelihood of coreference between a pronoun and a can...
Ever since the landmark paper Ramshaw and Marcus (1995), machine learning systems have been used successfully for identifying base phrases (chunks), the bottom constituents of a p...
We present sppc, a high-performance system for intelligent text extraction and navigation from German free text documents. sppc consists of a set of domainindependent shallow core...
We describe a number of experiments that demonstrate the usefulness of prosodic information for a processing module which parses spoken utterances with a feature-based grammar emp...