This paper shows that discriminative reranking with an averaged perceptron model yields substantial improvements in realization quality with CCG. The paper confirms the utility of...
Machine involvement has the potential to speed up language documentation. We assess this potential with timed annotation experiments that consider annotator expertise, example sel...
We propose a new model for unsupervised POS tagging based on linguistic distinctions between open and closed-class items. Exploiting notions from current linguistic theory, the sy...
Conversation is an essential component of social behavior, one of the primary means by which humans express intentions, beliefs, emotions, attitudes and personality. Thus the deve...
Semantic theories of natural language associate meanings with utterances by providing meanings for lexical items and rules for determining the meaning of larger units given the me...