Exploiting auxiliary distributions in stochastic unification-based grammars

Mark Johnson; Stefan Riezler

Exploiting auxiliary distributions in stochastic unification-based grammars

Mark Johnson, Stefan Riezler

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Abstract

This paper describes a method for estimating conditional probability distributions over the parses of "unification-based" grammars which can utilize auxiliary distributions that are estimated by other means. We show how this can be used to incorporate information about lexical selectional preferences gathered from other sources into Stochastic "Unification-based" Grammars (SUBGs). While we apply this estimator to a Stochastic Lexical-Functional Grammar, the method is general, and should be applicable to stochastic versions of HPSGs, categorial grammars and transformational grammars.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Conference
Place of Publication	Stroudsburg, PA
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	154-161
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2000
Externally published	Yes
Event	Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1st : 2000) - Seattle, United States Duration: 29 Apr 2000 → 4 May 2000

Conference

Conference	Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1st : 2000)
Abbreviated title	NAACL 2000
Country/Territory	United States
City	Seattle
Period	29/04/00 → 4/05/00

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Johnson, M & Riezler, S 2000, Exploiting auxiliary distributions in stochastic unification-based grammars. in 1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Stroudsburg, PA, pp. 154-161, Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (1st : 2000), Seattle, Washington, United States, 29/04/00. <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/A00-2021/>

Exploiting auxiliary distributions in stochastic unification-based grammars. / Johnson, Mark; Riezler, Stefan.
1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Proceedings of the Conference. Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2000. p. 154-161.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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Exploiting auxiliary distributions in stochastic unification-based grammars

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