With the increase in popularity of online review sites comes a corresponding need for tools capable of extracting the information most important to the user from the plain text da...
We describe tree edit models for representing sequences of tree transformations involving complex reordering phenomena and demonstrate that they offer a simple, intuitive, and eff...
Named entity recognition systems sometimes have difficulty when applied to data from domains that do not closely match the training data. We first use a simple rule-based techniqu...
Asad B. Sayeed, Timothy J. Meyer, Hieu C. Nguyen, ...
A variety of information extraction techniques rely on the fact that instances of the same relation are "distributionally similar," in that they tend to appear in simila...
We show that the automatically induced latent variable grammars of Petrov et al. (2006) vary widely in their underlying representations, depending on their EM initialization point...