We present an online learning algorithm for training parsers which allows for the inclusion of multiple objective functions. The primary example is the extension of a standard sup...
Keith Hall, Ryan T. McDonald, Jason Katz-Brown, Mi...
We consider the problem of learning factored probabilistic CCG grammars for semantic parsing from data containing sentences paired with logical-form meaning representations. Tradi...
Tom Kwiatkowski, Luke S. Zettlemoyer, Sharon Goldw...
We propose a simple training regime that can improve the extrinsic performance of a parser, given only a corpus of sentences and a way to automatically evaluate the extrinsic qual...
Jason Katz-Brown, Slav Petrov, Ryan T. McDonald, F...
Dual decomposition has been recently proposed as a way of combining complementary models, with a boost in predictive power. However, in cases where lightweight decompositions are ...
Linear models have enjoyed great success in structured prediction in NLP. While a lot of progress has been made on efficient training with several loss functions, the problem of ...