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Designing Statistical Language Learners: Experiments on Noun Compounds
Mark Lauer
The goal of this thesis is to advance the exploration of the statistical language learning design space. In pursuit of that goal, the thesis makes two main theoretical contribution…
Conserving Fuel in Statistical Language Learning: Predicting Data Requirements
Mark Lauer
In this paper I address the practical concern of predicting how much training data is sufficient for a statistical language learning system. First, I briefly review earlier results…
How much is enough?: Data requirements for statistical NLP
Mark Lauer
In this paper I explore a number of issues in the analysis of data requirements for statistical NLP systems. A preliminary framework for viewing such systems is proposed and a samp…
Corpus Statistics Meet the Noun Compound: Some Empirical Results
Mark Lauer
A variety of statistical methods for noun compound analysis are implemented and compared. The results support two main conclusions. First, the use of conceptual association not onl…
A Probabilistic Model of Compound Nouns
Mark Lauer, Mark Dras
Compound nouns such as example noun compound are becoming more common in natural language and pose a number of difficult problems for NLP systems, notably increasing the complexity…
Conceptual Association for Compound Noun Analysis
Mark Lauer
This paper describes research toward the automatic interpretation of compound nouns using corpus statistics. An initial study aimed at syntactic disambiguation is presented. The ap…