David McClosky

2 paper cards in Mova's library · 2006

David McClosky wrote 2 of the papers Mova reads, in 2006; often with Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson.

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Papers

Effective Self-Training for Parsing (2006)
Self-training of parsers was thought to fail because the parser's own errors are amplified. This paper shows that it works when the self-labelled trees come from a two-stage parser and reranker: the 50-best parses of 24 million unlabelled News sentences are reranked, and the reranker's best tree is added to the Wall…
Reranking and Self-Training for Parser Adaptation (2006)
Parsers trained on the Wall Street Journal lose much accuracy on other genres: the standard parser scores 89.7% on WSJ but only 82.9% on the Brown corpus.