William Gale, Kenneth Ward Church, David Yarowsky
We have recently reported on two new word-sense disambiguation systems, one trained on bilingual material (the Canadian Hansards) and the other trained on monolingual material (Roget's Thesaurus...
Uri Zernik (editor, Victor Sadler, Kenneth Church, William Gale, Patrick Hanks, Don Hindle
It's taken a good three years to squeeze this collection of workshop papers through the publishing pipeline. No great matter: the state of the art in lexical acquisition is still much as it was....
Do Individual Development Accounts Raise Saving? (2006)
Experimental Evidence By, Gregory Mills, William Gale, Rhiannon Patterson
This paper reports the results of what is, to our knowledge, the first controlled social experiment of the effects of saving incentives in general and IDAs in particular. There has been virtually no...
A stochastic finite-state word-segmentation algorithm for Chinese (1996)
Richard Sproat, Chilin Shih, William Gale, Nancy Chang
We present a stochastic finite-state model for segment-ing Chinese text into dictionary entries and produc-tively derived words, and providing pronunciations for these words; the method incorporates...
A stochastic finite-state word-segmentation algorithm for Chinese (1996)
Richard Sproat, William Gale, Chilin Shih, Nancy Chang
The initial stage of text analysis for any NLP task usually involves the tokenization of the input into words. For languages like English one can assume, to a first approximation, that word...
Using statistics in lexical analysis (1991)
Kenneth Church, William Gale, Patrick Hanks, Donald Hindle
The computational tools available for studying machine-readable corpora are at present still rather primitive. In the more advanced lexicographic organizations, there are concordancing programs (see...
Esther Duflo, William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, Peter Orszag, Emmanuel Saez
This paper analyzes the effects of a large randomized field experiment carried out with H&R Block, offering matching incentives for IRA contributions at the time of tax preparation. About 14,000 H&R...
Esther Duflo, William Gale, Jeffrey Liebman, Peter Orszag, Emmanuel Saez
This paper analyzes the effects of a large randomized field experiment, carried out with H&R Block, offering matching incentives for IRA contributions at the time of tax preparation. About 15,000 H&R...
Jon Bakija, William Gale, Joel Slemrod
One recurring issue in the debate over the estate tax is its impact on the non-profit sector. With the top marginal rate of federal estate tax currently at 49 percent, abolishing the tax would...
The Tax Reform Proposals: Some Good Ideas, but Show Me the Money
The President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform has submitted an important set of proposed structural changes that would generally move the tax system in the right direction. However, at the tax...
The bottom line on the tax plans of Obama and McCain are that Obama has bigger tax cuts for middle income families and modest tax hikes for the wealthy, as compared with McCain's $125,000 per family...
The Budget Outlook: Projections and Implications
Under reasonable projections, the unified budget deficits over the next decade will average 3.5 percent of GDP. Compared to a balanced budget, the unified budget deficits will reduce annual national...
Although this year's record deficit has attracted a lot of attention, the real concern is the unsustainability of the federal budget over the next 10 years and longer. The budget situation presents...