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Computational Linguistics as a Manx Cat: The Long and Winding Road of Deep Lexical Acquisition

Jeremy Nicholson 
U. Melbourne

In this talk, we detail deep lexical acquisition: the process of automatically
learning linguistic structures for use in linguistically-rich lexical
resources. We examine a series of experiments involving leveraging available
resources and the World Wide Web to predict a number of lexical properties
across a number of languages.  As with many tasks in natural language
processing, the token-type interface biases evaluation toward the most dense
tokens (across the most dense languages!), with a long, unloved tail. Finally,
we will discuss the implications when parsing using deep grammars.

-- Main.ebender - 01 Jun 2009

Topic revision: r1 - 2009-06-01 - ebender