James R. Curran

Also published as: James Curran


2019

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NNE: A Dataset for Nested Named Entity Recognition in English Newswire
Nicky Ringland | Xiang Dai | Ben Hachey | Sarvnaz Karimi | Cecile Paris | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Named entity recognition (NER) is widely used in natural language processing applications and downstream tasks. However, most NER tools target flat annotation from popular datasets, eschewing the semantic information available in nested entity mentions. We describe NNE—a fine-grained, nested named entity dataset over the full Wall Street Journal portion of the Penn Treebank (PTB). Our annotation comprises 279,795 mentions of 114 entity types with up to 6 layers of nesting. We hope the public release of this large dataset for English newswire will encourage development of new techniques for nested NER.

2015

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Identifying Cascading Errors using Constraints in Dependency Parsing
Dominick Ng | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2014

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Analysing recall loss in named entity slot filling
Glen Pink | Joel Nothman | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

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docrep: A lightweight and efficient document representation framework
Tim Dawborn | James R. Curran
Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers

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Limited memory incremental coreference resolution
Kellie Webster | James R. Curran
Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers

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Command-line utilities for managing and exploring annotated corpora
Joel Nothman | Tim Dawborn | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for HLT

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Trading accuracy for faster named entity linking
Kristy Hughes | Joel Nothman | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014

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Unsupervised Biographical Event Extraction Using Wikipedia Traffic
Alexander Hogue | Joel Nothman | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2014

2013

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Examining the Impact of Coreference Resolution on Quote Attribution
Tim O’Keefe | Kellie Webster | James R. Curran | Irena Koprinska
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2013 (ALTA 2013)

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Automatically Detecting and Attributing Indirect Quotations
Silvia Pareti | Tim O’Keefe | Ioannis Konstas | James R. Curran | Irena Koprinska
Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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An Empirical Examination of Challenges in Chinese Parsing
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld | Daniel Tse | James R. Curran | Dan Klein
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

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An annotated corpus of quoted opinions in news articles
Tim O’Keefe | James R. Curran | Peter Ashwell | Irena Koprinska
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

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Joint Apposition Extraction with Syntactic and Semantic Constraints
Will Radford | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

2012

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The Challenges of Parsing Chinese with Combinatory Categorial Grammar
Daniel Tse | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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A Sequence Labelling Approach to Quote Attribution
Timothy O’Keefe | Silvia Pareti | James R. Curran | Irena Koprinska | Matthew Honnibal
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

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Parser Showdown at the Wall Street Corral: An Empirical Investigation of Error Types in Parser Output
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld | David Hall | James R. Curran | Dan Klein
Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

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Improvements to Training an RNN parser
Richard Billingsley | James Curran
Proceedings of COLING 2012

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Improving Combinatory Categorial Grammar Parse Reranking with Dependency Grammar Features
Sunghwan Mac Kim | Dominick Ng | Mark Johnson | James Curran
Proceedings of COLING 2012

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Dependency Hashing for n-best CCG Parsing
Dominick Ng | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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Robust Conversion of CCG Derivations to Phrase Structure Trees
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld | Dan Klein | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

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Event Linking: Grounding Event Reference in a News Archive
Joel Nothman | Matthew Honnibal | Ben Hachey | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

2011

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Relation Guided Bootstrapping of Semantic Lexicons
Tara McIntosh | Lars Yencken | James R. Curran | Timothy Baldwin
Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

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Parsing Noun Phrases in the Penn Treebank
David Vadas | James R. Curran
Computational Linguistics, Volume 37, Issue 4 - December 2011

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Frontier Pruning for Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing
Stephen Merity | James Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2011

2010

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SCHWA: PETE Using CCG Dependencies with the C&C Parser
Dominick Ng | James W.D. Constable | Matthew Honnibal | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation

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Reranking a wide-coverage ccg parser
Dominick Ng | Matthew Honnibal | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2010

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Tracking Information Flow between Primary and Secondary News Sources
Will Radford | Ben Hachey | James Curran | Maria Milosavljevic
Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Computational Linguistics in a World of Social Media

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Rebanking CCGbank for Improved NP Interpretation
Matthew Honnibal | James R. Curran | Johan Bos
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Faster Parsing by Supertagger Adaptation
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld | Jessika Roesner | Tim Dawborn | James Haggerty | James R. Curran | Stephen Clark
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Chinese CCGbank: extracting CCG derivations from the Penn Chinese Treebank
Daniel Tse | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2010)

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Morphological Analysis Can Improve a CCG Parser for English
Matthew Honnibal | Jonathan K. Kummerfeld | James R. Curran
Coling 2010: Posters

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Chart Pruning for Fast Lexicalised-Grammar Parsing
Yue Zhang | Byung-Gyu Ahn | Stephen Clark | Curt Van Wyk | James R. Curran | Laura Rimell
Coling 2010: Posters

2009

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Tracking Information Flow in Financial Text
Will Radford | Ben Hachey | James R. Curran | Maria Milosavljevic
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2009

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Classifying articles in English and German Wikipedia
Nicky Ringland | Joel Nothman | Tara Murphy | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2009

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Faster parsing and supertagging model estimation
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld | Jessika Roesner | James Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2009

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CCG parsing with one syntactic structure per n-gram
Tim Dawborn | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2009

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A Sentiment Detection Engine for Internet Stock Message Boards
Christopher Chua | Maria Milosavljevic | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2009

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Improved Text Categorisation for Wikipedia Named Entities
Sam Tardif | James R. Curran | Tara Murphy
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2009

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Integrating Verb-Particle Constructions into CCG Parsing
James Constable | James Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2009

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Analysing Wikipedia and Gold-Standard Corpora for NER Training
Joel Nothman | Tara Murphy | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL 2009)

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Reducing Semantic Drift with Bagging and Distributional Similarity
Tara McIntosh | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP

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Comparing the Accuracy of CCG and Penn Treebank Parsers
Stephen Clark | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers

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Fully Lexicalising CCGbank with Hat Categories
Matthew Honnibal | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Named Entity Recognition in Wikipedia
Dominic Balasuriya | Nicky Ringland | Joel Nothman | Tara Murphy | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on The People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources (People’s Web)

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Evaluating a Statistical CCG Parser on Wikipedia
Matthew Honnibal | Joel Nothman | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on The People’s Web Meets NLP: Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources (People’s Web)

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Accurate Argumentative Zoning with Maximum Entropy models
Stephen Merity | Tara Murphy | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Text and Citation Analysis for Scholarly Digital Libraries (NLPIR4DL)

2008

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Answer Attenuation in Question Answering
Katie Bell | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2008

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Automatic Acquisition of Training Data for Statistical Parsers
Susan Howlett | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2008

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Classification of Verb Particle Constructions with the Google Web1T Corpus
Jonathan K. Kummerfeld | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2008

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Weighted Mutual Exclusion Bootstrapping for Domain Independent Lexicon and Template Acquisition
Tara McIntosh | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2008

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Investigating Features for Classifying Noun Relations
Dominick Ng | David J. Kedziora | Terry T. W. Miu | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2008

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Transforming Wikipedia into Named Entity Training Data
Joel Nothman | James R. Curran | Tara Murphy
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2008

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Punctuation Normalisation for Cleaner Treebanks and Parsers
Daniel Tse | James Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop 2008

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Parsing Noun Phrase Structure with CCG
David Vadas | James R. Curran
Proceedings of ACL-08: HLT

2007

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Experiments in Mutual Exclusion Bootstrapping
Tara Murphy | James Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007

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Parsing Internal Noun Phrase Structure with Collins’ Models
David Vadas | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007

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Distributional Similarity of Multi-Word Expressions
Laura Ingram | James Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007

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Extending CCGbank with Quotes and Multi-modal CCG
Daniel Tse | James Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2007

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The Topology of Synonymy and Homonymy Networks
James Gorman | James Curran
Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition

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Challenges for extracting biomedical knowledge from full text
Tara McIntosh | James R. Curran
Biological, translational, and clinical language processing

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Perceptron Training for a Wide-Coverage Lexicalized-Grammar Parser
Stephen Clark | James Curran
ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing

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Creating a Systemic Functional Grammar Corpus from the Penn Treebank
Matthew Honnibal | James R. Curran
ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing

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Improving the Efficiency of a Wide-Coverage CCG Parser
Bojan Djordjevic | James Curran | Stephen Clark
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Parsing Technologies

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Wide-Coverage Efficient Statistical Parsing with CCG and Log-Linear Models
Stephen Clark | James R. Curran
Computational Linguistics, Volume 33, Number 4, December 2007

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Adding Noun Phrase Structure to the Penn Treebank
David Vadas | James Curran
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics

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Formalism-Independent Parser Evaluation with CCG and DepBank
Stephen Clark | James Curran
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics

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Linguistically Motivated Large-Scale NLP with C&C and Boxer
James Curran | Stephen Clark | Johan Bos
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics Companion Volume Proceedings of the Demo and Poster Sessions

2006

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Random Indexing using Statistical Weight Functions
James Gorman | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Efficient Combinatory Categorial Grammar Parsing
Bojan Djordjevic | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006

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Named Entity Recognition for Astronomy Literature
Tara Murphy | Tara McIntosh | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2006

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Scaling Distributional Similarity to Large Corpora
James Gorman | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Multi-Tagging for Lexicalized-Grammar Parsing
James R. Curran | Stephen Clark | David Vadas
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Interactive Presentation Sessions
James Curran
Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Interactive Presentation Sessions

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Partial Training for a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser
Stephen Clark | James Curran
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Main Conference

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Web Text Corpus for Natural Language Processing
Vinci Liu | James R. Curran
11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2005

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Approximate Searching for Distributional Similarity
James Gorman | James Curran
Proceedings of the ACL-SIGLEX Workshop on Deep Lexical Acquisition

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Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005
Timothy Baldwin | James Curran | Menno van Zaanen
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005

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Tagging Unknown Words with Raw Text Features
David Vadas | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005

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Augmenting Approximate Similarity Searching with Lexical Information
James Gorman | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005

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Words and Word Usage: Newspaper Text versus the Web
Vinci Liu | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005

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Programming With Unrestricted Natural Language
David Vadas | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005

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A Distributed Architecture for Interactive Parse Annotation
Baden Hughes | James Haggerty | Joel Nothman | Saritha Manickam | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Workshop 2005

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Supersense Tagging of Unknown Nouns Using Semantic Similarity
James Curran
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’05)

2004

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Object-Extraction and Question-Parsing using CCG
Stephen Clark | Mark Steedman | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Parsing the WSJ Using CCG and Log-Linear Models
Stephen Clark | James R. Curran
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-04)

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The Importance of Supertagging for Wide-Coverage CCG Parsing
Stephen Clark | James R. Curran
COLING 2004: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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Wide-Coverage Semantic Representations from a CCG Parser
Johan Bos | Stephen Clark | Mark Steedman | James R. Curran | Julia Hockenmaier
COLING 2004: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

2003

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Bootstrapping POS-taggers using unlabelled data
Stephen Clark | James Curran | Miles Osborne
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning at HLT-NAACL 2003

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Language Independent NER using a Maximum Entropy Tagger
James Curran | Stephen Clark
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning at HLT-NAACL 2003

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Blueprint for a High Performance NLP Infrastructure
James R. Curran
Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Software Engineering and Architecture of Language Technology Systems (SEALTS)

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Log-Linear Models for Wide-Coverage CCG Parsing
Stephen Clark | James Curran
Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Investigating GIS and Smoothing for Maximum Entropy Taggers
James R. Curran | Stephen Clark
10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

2002

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Improvements in Automatic Thesaurus Extraction
James R. Curran | Marc Moens
Proceedings of the ACL-02 Workshop on Unsupervised Lexical Acquisition

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Ensemble Methods for Automatic Thesaurus Extraction
James Curran
Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2002)

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A Very Very Large Corpus Doesn’t Always Yield Reliable Estimates
James R. Curran | Miles Osborne
COLING-02: The 6th Conference on Natural Language Learning 2002 (CoNLL-2002)

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Scaling Context Space
James Curran | Marc Moens
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics