Polarized dependency (PD-) grammars are proposed as a means of efficient treatment of discontinuous constructions. PD-grammars describe two kinds of dependencies : local, explicit...
We present new training methods that aim to mitigate local optima and slow convergence in unsupervised training by using additional imperfect objectives. In its simplest form, lat...
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jura...
A well-established principle of language is that there is a preference for closely related words to be close together in the sentence. This can be expressed as a preference for de...