Dissertation
- Probabilistic Constraint Logic Programming. Ph. D. thesis,
Universität Tübingen, 1998, AIMS Report 5(1), 1999,
IMS, Universität Stuttgart
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Selected Publications
2008
- Translating Queries into Snippets for Improved Query Expansion. With Yi Liu and Alexander Vasserman. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'08), Manchester, England. (.pdf)
- Wide-Coverage Deep Statistical Parsing using Automatic Dependency Structure Annotation. With Aoife Cahill, Ruth O'Donovan, Josef van Genabith, Michael Burke, Andy Way. In Computational Linguistics, Vol. 34, No. 1: 81-124. (.pdf)
2007
- Statistical Machine Translation for Query Expansion in Answer Retrieval. With Alexander Vasserman, Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Vibhu Mittal, Yi Liu. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'07), Prague, Czech Republic. (.pdf)
2006
- Book Review of New Developments in Parsing Technology , by Harry Bunt, John Carroll, and Giorgio Satta (eds.), Dortrecht (Kluwer), 2004. In Computational Linguistics , Vol. 32, No. 3: 439-442. (.pdf)
- Grammatical Machine Translation. With John Maxwell. In Proceedings of Human Language Technology conference - North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics annual meeting (HLT-NAACL'06) , New York, NY. (.pdf)
(An extended version appeared in Miriam Butt, Mary Dalrymple, and Tracy Holloway King (Eds.) Intelligent Linguistic Structures: Variations on themes by Ronald M. Kaplan, CSLI Publications, Stanford, CA. (.pdf))
2005
- Grammatical Machine Translation. With John Maxwell. Revised version of talk given at Johns Hopkins University, Yahoo, and Google. (.ppt)
- On Some Pitfalls in Automatic Evaluation and Significance Testing for MT. With John Maxwell. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Methods for MT and Summarization (MTSE) at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'05), Ann Arbor, Michigan.(.pdf)
2004
- Incremental Feature Selection and l1 Regularization for Relaxed Maximum-Entropy Modeling. With Alexander Vasserman. In Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'04)), Barcelona, Spain. (.pdf)
- Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing. With Ron Kaplan, Tracy King, John Maxwell, Alexander Vasserman, and Richard Crouch. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the 4th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL'04), Boston, MA.(.pdf)
2003
- Statistical Sentence Condensation using Ambiguity Packing and Stochastic Disambiguation Methods for Lexical-Functional Grammar.
With Tracy H. King, Richard Crouch, and Annie Zaenen. In Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference and the 3rd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL'03), Edmonton, Canada. (.pdf)
- The PARC 700 Dependency Bank.
With Tracy H. King, Richard Crouch, Mary Dalrymple and Ronald M. Kaplan.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on "Linguistically Interpreted Corpora" at the 10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (LINC'03), Budapest, Hungary. (.pdf)
2002
- Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques.
With Tracy H. King, Ronald M. Kaplan, Richard Crouch, John T. Maxwell, and Mark Johnson. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'02), Philadephia, PA.
(.pdf)
- A Comparison of Evaluation Metrics for a Broad Coverage Stochastic Parser.
With Richard Crouch, Ronald M. Kaplan, and Tracy H. King.
In Proceedings of the Workshop on "Parseval and Beyond" at the 3rd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'02), 2000, Las Palmas, Spain.
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2001
- Statistical Grammar Models and Lexicon Acquisition. With Sabine Schulte im Walde, Helmut Schmid, Mats Rooth, Detlef Prescher.
In Christian Rohrer, Anje Rossdeutscher, Hans Kamp (Eds.)
Linguistic Form and its Computation, 2001, CSLI
Publications, Stanford, CA.
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- Statistical Models of Language Learning and Use.
With Mark Johnson.
In Cognitive Science 26:3.
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2000
- Lexicalized Stochastic Modeling of Constraint-Based Grammars
using Log-Linear Measures and EM Training.
With Detlef Prescher, Jonas Kuhn, and Mark Johnson.
In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'00) , 2000, Hong Kong.
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- Exploiting Auxiliary Distributions in Stochastic
Unification-Based Grammars.
With Mark Johnson.
In Proceedings of the 1st Meeting of the North American
Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ANLP-NAACL 2000), 2000,
Seattle, WA.
(.pdf)
- Using a Probabilistic Class-Based Lexicon for Lexical
Ambiguity Resolution. With Detlef Prescher and Mats Rooth.
In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on
Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000), 2000, Saarbrücken.
(.pdf)
1999
- Estimators for Stochastic Unification-Based Grammars. With Mark Johnson, Stuart Geman, Stephen Canon, and Zhiyi Chi. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), 1999, College Park, MD.
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- Inducing a Semantically Annotated Lexicon via EM-Based
Clustering. With Mats Rooth, Detlef Prescher, Glenn Carroll, and Franz Beil.
In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), 1999, College Park, MD.
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- Inside-Outside Estimation of a Lexicalized PCFG for
German. With Franz Beil, Glenn Carroll, Detlef Prescher, and
Mats Rooth.
In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), 1999, College Park, MD.
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1997
- Quantitative Constraint Logic Programming for Weighted Grammar Applications.
In Christian Retoré (Ed.), Logical Aspects of Computational
Linguistics (LACL'96) , pp. 346-365. 1997. Berlin:Springer. LNCS/LNAI 1328. 20 pp.
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