Inclusions from other languages can be a significant source of errors for monolingual parsers. We show this for English inclusions, which are sufficiently frequent to present a ...
This paper provides an algorithmic framework for learning statistical models involving directed spanning trees, or equivalently non-projective dependency structures. We show how p...
Terry Koo, Amir Globerson, Xavier Carreras, Michae...
It is possible to reduce the bulk of phrasetables for Statistical Machine Translation using a technique based on the significance testing of phrase pair co-occurrence in the para...
Howard Johnson, Joel D. Martin, George F. Foster, ...
In this paper, we consider the computational modelling of human plausibility judgements for verb-relation-argument triples, a task equivalent to the computation of selectional pre...
We explore the use of Wikipedia as external knowledge to improve named entity recognition (NER). Our method retrieves the corresponding Wikipedia entry for each candidate word seq...