Taxonomies are an important resource for a variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Despite this, the current stateof-the-art methods in taxonomy learning have d...
Adaptor grammars extend probabilistic context-free grammars to define prior distributions over trees with "rich get richer" dynamics. Inference for adaptor grammars seek...
Like most natural language disambiguation tasks, word sense disambiguation (WSD) requires world knowledge for accurate predictions. Several proxies for this knowledge have been in...
With the recent rise in popularity and size of social media, there is a growing need for systems that can extract useful information from this amount of data. We address the probl...
Sentence fusion enables summarization and question-answering systems to produce output by combining fully formed phrases from different sentences. Yet there is little data that ca...
Kathleen McKeown, Sara Rosenthal, Kapil Thadani, C...