Abstract. This paper explores the use of initial Stochastic Context-Free Grammars (SCFG) obtained from a treebank corpus for the learning of SCFG by means of estimation algorithms....
Using inclusion-exclusion, we can write the indicator function of a union of finitely many balls as an alternating sum of indicator functions of common intersections of balls. We...
We present a method for detecting and parsing buildings from unorganized 3D point clouds into a compact, hierarchical representation that is useful for high-level tasks. The input...
Learning texts contain much implicit knowledge which is ideally presented to the learner in a structured manner - a typical example being definitions of terms in the text, which w...
Corpus-based grammar induction generally relies on hand-parsed training data to learn the structure of the language. Unfortunately, the cost of building large annotated corpora is...