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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 25 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 25 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 25 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 25 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 25 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 25 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