Richard Crouch

Resolution System for Understanding Multilingual Texts. In (2008)

José Resolução, Anáfora Pronominal, Ma Dissertation, Richard Crouch, Monotonic Semantic, Interpretation In, ...

34th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL96). Azzam, Saliha, Kevin Humphreys and Robert Gaizauskas. 1998a. Evaluating a

Making Ontologies Work for Resolving Redundancies Across Documents (2008)

Reinhard Stolle, Valeria De Paiva, Daniel G. Bobrow, Richard Crouch, Cleo Condoravdi, ...

Knowledge management efforts over the past decade have produced many document collections focused on particular domains, such as the repair of photocopiers. As such systems scale up, they become...

Deverbal Nouns in Knowledge Representation (2008)

Gurevich, Olga, Crouch, Richard, King, Tracy Holloway, De Paiva, Valeria

Deverbal nouns pose serious challenges for knowledge-representation systems. We present a method of canonicalizing deverbal noun representations, relying on a rich lexicon of verb subcategorization...

Josef van Genabith (2007)

School Of Computer, Richard Crouch

We describe a method for interpreting abstract flat syntactic representations, LFG fstructures, as underspecified semantic representations, here Underspecified Discourse Representation Structures...

On Interpreting F-Structures as UDRSs (2007)

Josef Van Genabith, Richard Crouch

We describe a method for interpreting abstract flat syntactic representations, LFG fstructures, as underspecified semantic representations, here Underspecified Discourse Representation Structures...

Monotonic Semantic Interpretation (2007)

Hiyan Alshawi, Richard Crouch

Aspects of semantic interpretation, such as quantifier scoping and reference resolution, are often realised computationally by non-monotonic operations involving loss of information and destructive...

On Interpreting F-Structures as UDRSs (2007)

Josef Van Genabith, Richard Crouch

We describe a method for interpreting abstract flat syntactic representations, LFG fstructures, as underspecified semantic representations, here Underspecified Discourse Representation Structures...

Glue Semantics for HPSG (2007)

Ash Asudeh And, Ash Asudeh, Richard Crouch

this paper outlines how it can be applied to HPSG. As well as providing an alternative form of semantics for HPSG, we believe that the benefits of HPSG glue include the following: (1) simplification...

Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing (2007)

Kaplan, Ronald M., Riezler, Stefan, King, Tracy H., Vasserman, Alexander, Crouch, Richard

This paper reports some experiments that Compare the accuracy and performance of two stochastic parsing systems. The currently popular Collins parser is a shallow parser whose output contains more...

Speed and accuracy in shallow and deep stochastic parsing (2004)

Ronald M. Kaplan, Stefan Riezler, Tracy Holloway King, Er Vasserman, Richard Crouch

This paper reports some experiments that compare the accuracy and performance of two stochastic parsing systems. The currently popular Collins parser is a shallow parser whose output contains more...

Exploiting f-structure input for sentence condensation (2004)

Richard Crouch, Tracy Holloway King, Stefan Riezler, Annie Zaenen

In this paper, we describe the types of sentence condensation rules used in the sentence condensation of Riezler et al. 2003 in detail. We show how the distinctions made in LFG f-structures as to...

Integrating finite-state technology with deep LFG grammars (2004)

Ronald M. Kaplan, Tracy Holloway King, Richard Crouch

Researchers at PARC were pioneers in developing finite-state methods for applications in computational linguistics, and one of the original motivations was to provide a coherent architecture for the...

Speed and accuracy in shallow and deep stochastic parsing (2004)

Ronald M. Kaplan, Stefan Riezler, Tracy Holloway King, Er Vasserman, Richard Crouch

This paper reports some experiments that compare the accuracy and performance of two stochastic parsing systems. The currently popular Collins parser is a shallow parser whose output contains more...

The PARC 700 Dependency Bank (2003)

Tracy Holloway King, Richard Crouch, Stefan Riezler, Mary Dalrymple, Ronald M. Kaplan

In this paper we discuss the construction, features, and current uses of the PARC 700 DEPBANK. The PARC 700 DEPBANK is a dependency bank containing predicate-argument relations and a wide variety of...

Statistical Sentence Condensation using Ambiguity Packing and Stochastic (2003)

Disambiguation Methods For, Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Richard Crouch, Annie Zaenen

We present an application of ambiguity packing and stochastic disambiguation techniques for Lexical-Functional Grammars (LFG) to the domain of sentence condensation. Our system incorporates a...

The PARC 700 Dependency Bank (2003)

Tracy Holloway King, Richard Crouch, Stefan Riezler, Mary Dalrymple, Ronald M. Kaplan

In this paper we discuss the construction, features, and current uses of the PARC 700 DEPBANK. The PARC 700 DEPBANK is a dependency bank containing predicate-argument relations and a wide variety of...

Statistical Sentence Condensation using Ambiguity Packing and Stochastic (2003)

Disambiguation Methods For, Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Richard Crouch, Annie Zaenen

We present an application of ambiguity packing and stochastic disambiguation techniques for Lexical-Functional Grammars (LFG) to the domain of sentence condensation. Our system incorporates a...

Parsing the wall street journal using a lexical-functional grammar and discriminative estimation techniques (2002)

Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Ronald M. Kaplan, Richard Crouch, John T. Maxwell, Iii Mark Johnson

We present a stochastic parsing system consisting of a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), a constraint-based parser and a stochastic disambiguation model. We report on the results of applying this...

Parsing the wall street journal using a lexical-functional grammar and discriminative estimation techniques (2002)

Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Ronald M. Kaplan, Richard Crouch, John T. Maxwell, Iii Mark Johnson

We present a stochastic parsing system consisting of a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), a constraint-based parser and a stochastic disambiguation model. We report on the results of applying this...

Coordination and parallelism in glue semantics: Integrating discourse cohesion and the element constraint (2002)

Ash Asudeh, Richard Crouch

We present initial work on a theory of coordination and parallelism in Glue Semantics (GLUE; Dalrymple 1999, 2001). We will explore points of convergence and divergence between our approach to...

2002. Coordination and parallelism in glue semantics: Integrating discourse cohesion and the element constraint (2002)

Ash Asudeh, Richard Crouch, Miriam Butt

Abstract We present initial work on a theory of coordination and parallelism in Glue Semantics (GLUE; Dalrymple 1999, 2001). We will explore points of convergence and divergence between our approach...

Parsing the wall street journal using a lexical-functional grammar and discriminative estimation techniques (2002)

Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Ronald M. Kaplan, Richard Crouch, John T. Maxwell, Iii Mark Johnson

We present a stochastic parsing system consisting of a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), a constraint-based parser and a stochastic disambiguation model. We report on the results of applying this...

Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and (2002)

Discriminative Estimation Techniques, Stefan Riezler, Tracy H. King, Ronald M. Kaplan, Richard Crouch, John T. Maxwell, ...

We present a stochastic parsing system consisting of a Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), a constraint-based parser and a stochastic disambiguation model. We report on the results of applying this...

2002. Coordination and parallelism in glue semantics: Integrating discourse cohesion and the element constraint (2002)

Ash Asudeh, Richard Crouch

Abstract We present initial work on a theory of coordination and parallelism in Glue Semantics (GLUE; Dalrymple 1999, 2001). We will explore points of convergence and divergence between our approach...

The Syntax of Preverbal Particles and Adjunction in Irish (2002)

Miriam Butt, Tracy Holloway King, Asudeh Ash, Richard Crouch

thank them for putting together the program that gave rise to this collection of papers. Thanks also go to the executive committee and the reviewers, without whom the conference would not have been...

Linear Logic and Applications (1999)

Valeria De Paiva, Josef Van Genabith, Eike Ritter, Richard Crouch

Machines with the Single Pointer Property Peter O'Hearn On Resource Semantics of Bunched Implications Martin Hofmann In place update with linear types or how to compile functional programs into...

On Comparing Dynamic and Underspecified Semantics for LFG (1997)

Josef Van Genabith, Richard Crouch, Miriam Butt

ing away from particular wrinkles of the QLF and UDRS disambiguation operations 4 \Delta Q and \Delta U we get q (') \Delta Q \Gamma! f% q 1 ; : : : ; % q n g u (') \Delta U \Gamma! f% u 1...

On Interpreting F-Structures as UDRSs (1997)

Josef Van Genabith, Richard Crouch

We describe a method for interpreting abstract flat syntactic representations, LFG fstructures, as underspecified semantic representations, here Underspecified Discourse Representation Structures...

How to Glue a Donkey to an f-Structure or Porting a Dynamic Meaning Representation Language into LFG's Linear Logic Based Glue-Language Semantics (1997)

Josef Van Genabith, Richard Crouch

In this paper we replace the static meaning representation language in the LFG linear logic based glue language semantics approach [ Dalrymple et al., 1993b; Dalrymple et al., 1993a; Dalrymple et...

Report of the Study Group on Assessment and Evaluation (1996)

Crouch, Richard, Gaizauskas, Robert, Netter, Klaus

This is an interim report discussing possible guidelines for the assessment and evaluation of projects developing speech and language systems. It was prepared at the request of the European...

F-Structures, QLFs and UDRSs (1996)

Josef Van Genabith, Richard Crouch

Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) f-structures are "high-level" syntactic representations; Quasi-Logical Forms (QLFs) and Underspecified Discourse Representation Structures (UDRSs) are...

Ellipsis and Quantification: a substitutional approach (1995)

Crouch, Richard

The paper describes a substitutional approach to ellipsis resolution giving comparable results to Dalrymple, Shieber and Pereira (1991), but without the need for order-sensitive interleaving of...

Ellipsis and Quantification: A Substitutional Approach (1995)

Richard Crouch

The paper describes a substitutional approach to ellipsis resolution giving comparable results to (Dalrymple et al., 1991), but without the need for order-sensitive interleaving of quantifier scoping...

Ellipsis and Quantification: A Substitutional Approach (1995)

Richard Crouch

The paper describes a substitutional approach to ellipsis resolution giving comparable results to (Dalrymple et al., 1991), but without the need for order-sensitive interleaving of quantifier scoping...

Ellipsis and Quantification: A Substitutional Approach (1995)

Richard Crouch, Pereira (henceforth

The paper describes a substitutional approach to ellipsis resolution giving comparable results to (?), but without the need for order-sensitive interleaving of quantifier scoping and ellipsis...

CLARE: A Contextual Reasoning and Cooperative Response Framework for the Core Language Engine (1994)

Alshawi, Hiyan, Carter, David, Crouch, Richard, Pulman, Steve, Rayner, Manny, Smith, Arnold

This report describes the research, design and implementation work carried out in building the CLARE system at SRI International, Cambridge, England. CLARE was designed as a natural language...

Describing the Approaches (1994)

Robin Cooper, Richard Crouch, Jan Van Eijck, Chris Fox, Josef Van Genabith, Jan Jaspers, ...

ing from the nature of the states involved, we can specify the change that an atomic program a effects by means of a two place transition relation R a on a set of states. This perspective gives rise...

Tense in Simple Conditionals (1993)

Richard Crouch

This paper is concerned with the way that past and present tenses undergo deictic shift in conditional (and modal) contexts. Two examples of this are:

Monotonic Semantic Interpretation (1992)

Hiyan Alshawi, Richard Crouch, Millers Yard

Aspects of semantic interpretation, such as quantifier scoping and reference resolution, are often realised computationally by non-monotonic operations involving loss of information and destructive...

CLARE: A Contextual Reasoning and Cooperative Response Framework for the Core Language Engine (1992)

Hiyan Alshawi, David Carter, Richard Crouch, Steve Pulman, Manny Rayner, Arnold Smith, ...

This document is the final report of CLARE, a project involving BP Research, British Aerospace, British Telecom, Cambridge University, SRI Cambridge and the UK Defence Research Agency. The project...