Free text botanical descriptions contained in printed floras can provide a wealth of valuable scientific information. In spite of this richness, these texts have seldom been anal...
Any attempt at automated software analysis or modification must be preceded by a comprehension step, i.e. parsing. This task, while often considered straightforward, can in fact ...
Beginning to create the New Oxford English Dictionary database has resulted in the realization that databases for reference texts are unlike those for conventional enterprises. Wh...
A major concern in corpus based approaches is that the applicability of the acquired knowledge may be limited by some feature of the corpus, in particular, the notion of text `dom...
We present a quasi-synchronous dependency grammar (Smith and Eisner, 2006) for machine translation in which the leaves of the tree are phrases rather than words as in previous wor...