[Ltg] LTG Seminar [James Curran 2008-02-18, E6A 357, 11am]

[Marc Tilbrook]

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   LTG Seminar
    - see: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/Events/Seminars.html

    Monday, 18th February, 2008, 11am
    Macquarie University, E6A, Room 357
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Title: Parsing the web: exploiting redundancy to understand language
Speaker: James Curran

This talk will consist of two sub-talks.  Firstly, I will give a 'state of
the union' style summary of where things are at on my and my students' major
research projects: the CCG parsing and C&C tools, scientific text mining and
the Pronto QA system.  I will also mention what my new honours students will
be working on this year.

Secondly, I am going to talk about my ARC fellowship proposal (title above).
The central idea of this proposal is to exploit the redundancy of simple
facts in web-scale quantities of text to identify constraints on the
syntactic analysis of more complex sentences, and then to use these
sentences as partially annotated training data. I will also describe the
many other fun things I intend to do with vast amounts of parsed web text.
Your feedback on my proposal will be most gratefully received!