This paper reports on a study of semantic role tagging in Chinese, in the absence of a parser. We investigated the effect of using only lexical information in statistical training;...
In some contexts, well-formed natural language cannot be expected as input to information or communication systems. In these contexts, the use of grammar-independent input (sequen...
In Natural Language Processing (NLP), the quality of a system depends to a great extent on the quality of the linguistic resources it uses. Due to the unpredictable character of v...
Today there is a relatively large body of work on automatic acquisition of lexicosyntactical preferences (subcategorization) from corpora. Various techniques have been developed t...
Current methods of using lexical features in machine translation have difficulty in scaling up to realistic MT tasks due to a prohibitively large number of parameters involved. In...