The Minimalist Grammars (MGs) proposed by Stabler(1997) have tree-shaped derivations (Harkema, 2001b; Michaelis, 2001a). As in categorial grammars, each lexical item is an associat...
One of the major problems in question answering (QA) is that the queries are either too brief or often do not contain most relevant terms in the target corpus. In order to overcom...
We present an algorithm for learning context free grammars from positive structural examples (unlabeled parse trees). The algorithm receives a parameter in the form of a finite se...
The evaluation of a large implemented natural language processing system involves more than its application to a common performance task. Such tasks have been used in the message u...
We study the effects of various emergent topologies of interaction on the rate of language convergence in a population of communicating agents. The agents generate, parse, and lea...