Multiword expressions are a key problem for the development of large-scale, linguistically
sound natural language processing technology. This paper surveys the problem and some …

We present a new part-of-speech tagger that demonstrates the following ideas:(i) explicit
use of both preceding and following tag contexts via a dependency network …

Lexical-Functional Syntax, 2nd Edition, the definitive text for Lexical Functional Grammar
(LFG) with a focus on syntax, is updated to reflect recent developments in the field. Provides …

The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

Discriminative reranking is one method for constructing high-performance statistical parsers
(Collins, 2000). A discriminative reranker requires a source of candidate parses for each …

Parsing unrestricted text is useful for many language technology applications but requires
parsing methods that are both robust and efficient. MaltParser is a language-independent …

We present a simple, but surprisingly effective, method of self-training a twophase parser-
reranker system using readily available unlabeled data. We show that this type of …

We describe the application of kernel methods to Natural Language Pro-cessing (NLP)
problems. In many NLP tasks the objects being modeled are strings, trees, graphs or other …

A weakness of standard Optimality Theory is its inability to account for grammars with free
variation. We describe here the Maximum Entropy model, a general statistical model, and …