This paper introduces deep syntactic structures to syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We use a Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) parser to obtain the de...
We describe recent extensions to the Ephyra question answering (QA) system and their evaluation in the TREC 2007 QA track. Existing syntactic answer extraction approaches for fact...
The real di culty in development of practical NLP systems comes from the fact that we do not have e ective means for gathering \knowledge". In this paper, we propose an algor...
Satoshi Sekine, Jeremy J. Carroll, Sophia Ananiado...
Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
This paper studies textual inference by investigating comma structures, which are highly frequent elements whose major role in the extraction of semantic relations has not been hi...
Vivek Srikumar, Roi Reichart, Mark Sammons, Ari Ra...