Papers by Nick Howell
A Second Wave of UD Hebrew Treebanking and Cross-Domain Parsing (2022.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Foundational Hebrew NLP tasks have relied on various versions of the Hebrew Treebank . however, the data in the HTB is now over 30 years old and does not cover many aspects of contemporary Hebrew on the web. |
| Approach: | They propose to use Hebrew Wikipedia to stratify the text from a UD treebank. |
| Outcome: | The proposed treebank is based on a single-source newswire corpus selected from Hebrew Wikipedia. |
An Unsupervised Method for Weighting Finite-state Morphological Analyzers (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Morphological analysis is one of the tasks that have been studied for years. |
| Approach: | They propose a method for weighting a morphological analyzer built using finite state transducers in order to disambiguate its results. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model weights a word2vec model using untagged corpora and captures the semantic meaning of the words. |