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Stephen Clark - Oxford University
Wednesday 14 January 2009, 14:15-15:15
Statistical Parsing of Natural Language with Lexicalised Grammars
- 👤 Speaker: Stephen Clark - Oxford University
- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 14 January 2009, 14:15 - 15:15
- 📍 Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory
Abstract
In this talk I will describe the problem of natural language parsing, and explain why it is such a difficult problem. I will characterise the problem in terms of three main questions: 1) how to obtain a grammar for natural language; 2) how to obtain all possible parses for an input sentence; and 3) how to use machine learning to obtain a model of parse plausibility. The answer to 1) will focus on Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG), a ‘lexicalised’ grammar formalism with a long history in theoretical linguistics. As well as having some desirable linguistic and formal properties, I will show that that the use of CCG leads to a surprisingly efficient practical parser. The answer to 2) will focus on standard chart-parsing techniques. The answer to 3) will focus on the perceptron, a simple but highly effective method which can be applied to complex structured learning problems.
Series This talk is part of the Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology series.
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