Stochastic HPSG parse disambiguation using the Redwoods corpus

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-105

  Toutanova, Kristina ^a   Manning, Christopher D ^a   Flickinger, Dan ^b   Oepen, Stephan ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HPSG grammars; Statistical parsing models

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844433090     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-005-1288-y     Document Type: Article

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