James Curran

3 paper cards in the Research library · 2005–2007

James Curran wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2005–2007, most of them on Treebanks; often with David Vadas, Stephen Clark.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Topics: Treebanks 1

Papers

Adding Noun Phrase Structure to the Penn Treebank (2007)
The Penn Treebank leaves base noun phrases flat, so "Air Force contract" has no internal structure, and any parser trained on it cannot learn that "Air Force" is a unit.
Formalism-Independent Parser Evaluation with CCG and DepBank (2007)
Parsers that use different formalisms produce different output, so their scores cannot be compared directly.
Supersense Tagging of Unknown Nouns using Semantic Similarity (2005)
Curran classifies unknown common nouns into the 26 WordNet lexicographer supersenses without any annotated examples.