Syntactic models should be descriptively adequate and parsable. A syntactic description is autonomous in the sense that it has certain explicitformal properties. Such a descriptio...
We present the first results on parsing the SYNTAGRUS treebank of Russian with a data-driven dependency parser, achieving a labeled attachment score of over 82% and an unlabeled a...
This paper describes an incremental parser based on an adjoining operation. By using the operation, we can avoid the problem of infinite local ambiguity in incremental parsing. Th...
Our research is motivated by the observation that NLP systems frequently mislabel passive voice verb phrases as being in the active voice when there is no auxiliary verb (e.g., &q...
To study PP attachment disambiguation as a benchmark for empirical methods in natural language processing it has often been reduced to a binary decision problem (between verb or n...