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SUMMARY:Theoretical Syntax and Practical Parsing - Stephen Clark\, Univers
 ity of Cambridge\, Computer Laboratory
DTSTART:20090526T150000Z
DTEND:20090526T163000Z
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CONTACT:Susan Rolfe
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will describe a state-of-the-art parser of natu
 ral language which uses a grammatical formalism from the theoretical lingu
 istics literature: Combinatory Categorial Grammar (CCG). CCG was designed 
 to capture unbounded dependencies in text\, such as those arising from coo
 rdination and extraction phenomena.  \n\n\nI will describe a recent evalua
 tion which measures how well the CCG parser – and other off-the-shelf pa
 rsers – are able to recover such dependencies. I will also show that the
  use of CCG leads to a surprisingly robust and efficient parser. The parse
 r is able to analyse sentences of naturally occurring text – from newspa
 pers and biomedical research papers\, for example – at speeds of tens of
  sentences per second. This allows practical generation of sophisticated l
 inguistic representations on a very large scale.  \n
LOCATION:GR-06/07\, English Faculty Building
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