3 papers
cs.CL1999
Learning Transformation Rules to Find Grammatical Relations
Lisa Ferro, Marc Vilain, Alexander Yeh
Grammatical relationships are an important level of natural language processing. We present a trainable approach to find these relationships through transformation sequences and er…
cmp-lg1998
Some Properties of Preposition and Subordinate Conjunction Attachments
Alexander S. Yeh, Marc B. Vilain
Determining the attachments of prepositions and subordinate conjunctions is a key problem in parsing natural language. This paper presents a trainable approach to making these atta…
cmp-lg1998
Automating Coreference: The Role of Annotated Training Data
Lynette Hirschman, Patricia Robinson, John Burger +1
We report here on a study of interannotator agreement in the coreference task as defined by the Message Understanding Conference (MUC-6 and MUC-7). Based on feedback from annotator…