When training the parameters for a natural language system, one would prefer to minimize 1-best loss (error) on an evaluation set. Since the error surface for many natural languag...
This paper describes how external resources can be used to improve parser performance for heavily lexicalised grammars, looking at both robustness and efficiency. In terms of robu...
Prediction of individual sequences is investigated for cases in which the decision maker observes a delayed version of the sequence, or is forced to issue his/her predictions a nu...