Log-linear parsing models are often trained by optimizing likelihood, but we would prefer to optimise for a task-specific metric like Fmeasure. Softmax-margin is a convex objecti...
This paper describes a hybrid parsing method for Japanese which uses both a hand-crafted grammar and a statistical technique. The key feature of our system is that in order to est...
This paper describes the development of QuestionBank, a corpus of 4000 parseannotated questions for (i) use in training parsers employed in QA, and (ii) evaluation of question par...
This paper investigates the usefulness of sentence-internal prosodic cues in syntactic parsing of transcribed speech. Intuitively, prosodic cues would seem to provide much the sam...
Michelle L. Gregory, Mark Johnson, Eugene Charniak
This paper describes a hybrid tagger/parser for French (FrAG), and presents results from ongoing development work, corpus annotation and evaluation. The core of the system is a se...