This paper proposes a new approach for coreference resolution which uses the Bell tree to represent the search space and casts the coreference resolution problem as finding the be...
Xiaoqiang Luo, Abraham Ittycheriah, Hongyan Jing, ...
In an ordinary syntactic parser, the input is a string, and the grammar ranges over strings. This paper explores generalizations of ordinary parsing algorithms that allow the inpu...
We use machine learning techniques to find the best combination of local focus and lexical distance features for identifying the anchor of mereological bridging references. We fin...
Massimo Poesio, Rahul Mehta, Axel Maroudas, Janet ...
A crucial step toward the goal of automatic extraction of propositional information from natural language text is the identification of semantic relations between constituents in ...
We discuss Feature Latent Semantic Analysis (FLSA), an extension to Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA). LSA is a statistical method that is ordinarily trained on words only; FLSA adds...