Manual knowledge acquisition is usually a costly and timeconsuming process. Automatic knowledge acquisition methods can then significantly support the knowledge engineer. In this ...
We show that the automatically induced latent variable grammars of Petrov et al. (2006) vary widely in their underlying representations, depending on their EM initialization point...
Today there is a relatively large body of work on automatic acquisition of lexicosyntactical preferences (subcategorization) from corpora. Various techniques have been developed t...
We propose a conditional random fieldbased method for supertagging, and apply it to the task of learning new lexical items for HPSG-based precision grammars of English and Japanes...
Reusing syntax specifications without embedded arbitrary semantic actions is straightforward because the semantic analysis phases of new applications can feed off trees or other ...