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IWPT
2001
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Parsing the CHILDES Database: Methodology and Lessons Learned
This paper discusses the process of parsing adult utterances directed to a child, in an effort to produce a syntactically annotated corpus of the verbal input to a human language ...
Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie, Brian MacWhinney
IWPT
2001
14 years 8 days ago
Automatic Grammar Partitioning for Syntactic Parsing
Natural language processing technologies offer ease-of-use of computers for average users, and easeof-access to on-line information. Natural language, however, is complex, and the...
Po-Chui Luk, Fuliang Weng, Helen Meng
IWPT
2001
14 years 8 days ago
Parsing and Hypergraphs
While symbolic parsers can be viewed as deduction systems, this view is less natural for probabilistic parsers. We present a view of parsing as directed hypergraph analysis which ...
Dan Klein, Christopher D. Manning
IWPT
2001
14 years 8 days ago
Efficient Sentence Parsing with Language Specific Features: A case Study of Czech
This paper presents two optimalizations of standard parsing techniques applied to Czech as a representative of a free word order language with rich morphology. Our approach is bas...
Ales Horák, Pavel Smrz
IWPT
2001
14 years 8 days ago
High Precision Extraction of Grammatical Relations
A parsing system returning analyses in the form of sets of grammatical relations can obtain high precision if it hypothesises a particular relation only when it is certain that th...
John Carroll, Ted Briscoe
IWPT
2001
14 years 8 days ago
Bidirectional Automata for Tree Adjoining Grammars
We define a new model of automata for the description of bidirectional parsing strategies for tree adjoining grammars and a tabulation mechanism that allow them to be executed in ...
Miguel A. Alonso, Víctor J. Díaz, Ma...
IWPT
2001
14 years 8 days ago
Probabilistic Modelling of Island-Driven Parsing
Two methods for stochastically modelling bidirectionality in chart parsing are presented. A probabilistic islanddriven parser which uses such models (either isolated or in combina...
Alicia Ageno, Horacio Rodríguez