One of the major challenges in TRECstyle question-answering (QA) is to overcome the mismatch in the lexical representations in the query space and document space. This is particul...
We present a practical co-training method for bootstrapping statistical parsers using a small amount of manually parsed training material and a much larger pool of raw sentences. ...
Mark Steedman, Anoop Sarkar, Miles Osborne, Rebecc...
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), consists in assigning the correct sense (semantics) to a word form (lexeme) by means of the cont...
Davide Buscaldi, Giovanna Guerrini, Marco Mesiti, ...
String transformation systems have been introduced in (Brill, 1995) and have several applications in natural language processing. In this work we consider the computational proble...
Substantial efforts have been made in order to cope with disjunctions in constraint based grammar formalisms (e.g. [Kasper, 1987; Maxwell and Kaplan, 1991; DSrre and Eisele, 1990]...