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EMNLP
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Quasi-Synchronous Phrase Dependency Grammars for Machine Translation
We present a quasi-synchronous dependency grammar (Smith and Eisner, 2006) for machine translation in which the leaves of the tree are phrases rather than words as in previous wor...
Kevin Gimpel, Noah A. Smith
EMNLP
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Lateen EM: Unsupervised Training with Multiple Objectives, Applied to Dependency Grammar Induction
We present new training methods that aim to mitigate local optima and slow convergence in unsupervised training by using additional imperfect objectives. In its simplest form, lat...
Valentin I. Spitkovsky, Hiyan Alshawi, Daniel Jura...
AAAI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
Using Semantic Cues to Learn Syntax
We present a method for dependency grammar induction that utilizes sparse annotations of semantic relations. This induction set-up is attractive because such annotations provide u...
Tahira Naseem, Regina Barzilay
COLING
1996
14 years 23 days ago
An Earley-type recognizer for dependency grammar
The paper is a first attempt to fill a gap in the dependency literature, by providing a mathematical result on the complexity of recognition with a dependency grammar. The paper d...
Vincenzo Lombardo, Leonardo Lesmo
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
14 years 24 days ago
Information Structure in Topological Dependency Grammar
Topological Dependency Grammar (TDG) is a lexicalized dependency grammar formalism, able to model languages with a relatively free word order. In such languages, word order variat...
Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Denys Duchier
FLAIRS
2006
14 years 25 days ago
Multi-Dimensional Dependency Grammar as Multigraph Description
Extensible Dependency Grammar (XDG) is new, modular grammar formalism for natural language. An XDG analysis is a multi-dimensional dependency graph, where each dimension represent...
Ralph Debusmann, Gert Smolka
LREC
2010
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14 years 26 days ago
Spanish FreeLing Dependency Grammar
This paper presents the development of an open-source Spanish Dependency Grammar implemented in FreeLing environment. This grammar was designed as a resource for NLP applications ...
Marina Lloberes, Irene Castellón, Llu&iacut...
NLPRS
2001
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Resolving Ambiguity in Inter-chunk Dependency Parsing
Recently, dependency grammar has become quite popular in relatively free word-order languages. We encounter many structural ambiguities when parsing a sentence using dependency gr...
Mi-Young Kim, Sin-Jae Kang, Jong-Hyeok Lee
CSLP
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Problems of Inducing Large Coverage Constraint-Based Dependency Grammar for Czech
Abstract. This article describes an attempt to implement a constraintbased dependency grammar for Czech, a language with rich morphology and free word order, in the formalism Exten...
Ondrej Bojar