This paper proposes a statistical, treeto-tree model for producing translations. Two main contributions are as follows: (1) a method for the extraction of syntactic structures wit...
We consider the problem of constructing a directed acyclic graph that encodes temporal relations found in a text. The unit of our analysis is a temporal segment, a fragment of tex...
Philip Bramsen, Pawan Deshpande, Yoong Keok Lee, R...
Semantic lexical matching is a prominent subtask within text understanding applications. Yet, it is rarely evaluated in a direct manner. This paper proposes a definition for lexic...
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...
We investigate whether one can determine from the transcripts of U.S. Congressional floor debates whether the speeches represent support of or opposition to proposed legislation. ...