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SUMMARY:Natural Language Parsing -- for what purpose? - Milos Jakubicek
DTSTART:20140502T110000Z
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CONTACT:Tamara Polajnar
DESCRIPTION:"Parsing is a crucial/necessary/important/useful/nice-to-have 
 part of\nmany NLP applications" -- an omnipresent sentence (in variations)
 .\nBut is it really? In the talk I will provide a somewhat provocative\nan
 d critical review of state-of-the-art in natural language parsing\nwith re
 gards to its exploitation in particular end-user applications.\nI will try
  to show an overview of how parsing is actually used now\, discuss its pre
 sent limitations\, impeach the usefulness of the dominant evaluation parad
 igm and shed light on what the alternatives may look like.\n\nSo as not to
  end up with a talk consisting purely of negative results\,\nI will finall
 y present research\, linguistic and engineering issues and\ncurrent result
 s in parsing of large web corpora carried out at Lexical\nComputing and pa
 rsing of morphologically-rich languages conducted at the NLP Centre at Mas
 aryk University.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory
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