We propose and implement a modification of the Eisner (1996) normal form to account for generalized composition of bounded degree, and an extension to deal with grammatical type-r...
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) often relies on a context model or vector constructed from the words that co-occur with the target word within the same text windows. In most cases...
Bernard Brosseau-Villeneuve, Jian-Yun Nie, Noriko ...
Multi-document summarization aims to produce a concise summary that contains salient information from a set of source documents. In this field, sentence ranking has hitherto been ...
In practical applications, decoding speed is very important. Modern structured learning technique adopts template based method to extract millions of features. Complicated templat...
During face-to-face conversation, people naturally integrate speech, gestures and higher level language interpretations to predict the right time to start talking or to give backc...
Although much work in NLP has focused on simply determining what a document means, we also must know whether or not to believe it. Fact-finding algorithms attempt to identify the ...
This paper1 presents an empirical approach to mining parallel corpora. Conventional approaches use a readily available collection of comparable, nonparallel corpora to extract par...
We evaluate two dependency parsers, MSTParser and MaltParser, with respect to their capacity to recover unbounded dependencies in English, a type of evaluation that has been appli...
Joakim Nivre, Laura Rimell, Ryan T. McDonald, Carl...