This paper presents an iterative CKY parsing algorithm for probabilistic contextfree grammars (PCFG). This algorithm enables us to prune unnecessary edges produced during parsing,...
The paper discusses two policies for recognizing NEs with complex structures by maximum entropy models. One policy is to develop cascaded MaxEnt models at different levels. The ot...
In this paper we present a noun phrase coreference resolution system which aims to enhance the identification of the coreference realized by string matching. For this purpose, we ...
Xiaofeng Yang, Guodong Zhou, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan
In this paper, we propose two indepentent solutions to resolve the problems of many different spelling variants and of lack of annotated corpus for training, which are two main di...
Multi-document discourse analysis has emerged with the potential of improving various NLP applications. Based on the newly proposed Cross-document Structure Theory (CST), this pap...