In this paper we explore the use of selectional preferences for detecting noncompositional verb-object combinations. To characterise the arguments in a given grammatical relations...
Diana McCarthy, Sriram Venkatapathy, Aravind K. Jo...
One may need to build a statistical parser for a new language, using only a very small labeled treebank together with raw text. We argue that bootstrapping a parser is most promis...
This paper describes an empirical study of high-performance dependency parsers based on a semi-supervised learning approach. We describe an extension of semisupervised structured ...
Jun Suzuki, Hideki Isozaki, Xavier Carreras, Micha...
A human annotator can provide hints to a machine learner by highlighting contextual "rationales" for each of his or her annotations (Zaidan et al., 2007). How can one ex...
The conditional phrase translation probabilities constitute the principal components of phrase-based machine translation systems. These probabilities are estimated using a heurist...