Many NLP tasks have at their core a subtask of extracting the dependencies—who did what
to whom—from natural language sentences. This task can be understood as the inverse of …

This paper presents the LinGO Grammar Matrix grammar customization system, a web-
based service which elicits typological descriptions of languages and outputs customized …

The conceptual origins of the English Resource Grammar go back to the days of GPSG
grammar development in the Natural Language Project at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories …

Meaning is a fundamental concept in Natural Language Processing (NLP), in the tasks of
both Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Natural Language Generation (NLG) …

This paper focuses on the evaluation of methods for the automatic acquisition of Multiword
Expressions (MWEs) for robust grammar engineering. First we investigate the hypothesis …

The treatment of multiword expressions (MWEs), like take off, bus stop and big deal, is a
challenge for NLP applications. This kind of linguistic construction is not only arbitrary but …

Identifying collocations in a sentence, in order to ensure their proper processing in
subsequent applications, and performing the syntactic analysis of the sentence are …

However large a hand-crafted widecoverage grammar is, there are always going to be
words and constructions that are not included in it and are going to cause parse failure. Due …

Abstract Information Extraction (IE) is a technology for localizing and classifying pieces of
relevant information in unstructured natural language texts and detecting relevant relations …

We propose a conditional random fieldbased method for supertagging, and apply it to the
task of learning new lexical items for HPSG-based precision grammars of English and …