We present a new approach to intrinsic summary evaluation, based on initial experiments in van Halteren and Teufel (2003), which combines two novel aspects: comparison of informat...
Paraphrase recognition is a critical step for natural language interpretation. Accordingly, many NLP applications would benefit from high coverage knowledge bases of paraphrases. ...
Accurate dependency recovery has recently been reported for a number of wide-coverage statistical parsers using Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG). However, overall figures give...
The morphology of Semitic languages is unique in the sense that the major word-formation mechanism is an inherently non-concatenative process of interdigitation, whereby two morph...
This paper provides evidence for Genzel and Charniak's (2002) entropy rate principle, which predicts that the entropy of a sentence increases with its position in the text. W...