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# Eugene Charniak

4 paper cards in Mova's library · 2004–2006

Eugene Charniak wrote 4 of the papers Mova reads, in 2004–2006, most of them on [Dependency parsing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/dependency-parsing/), [Treebanks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/treebanks/); often with [Mark Johnson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/mark-johnson/), [David McClosky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/david-mcclosky/), Eric K. Ringger.

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Topics: [Dependency parsing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/dependency-parsing/) 1 · [Treebanks](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/topics/treebanks/) 1

## Ideas Mova took (1)

From the ideas ledger: an idea tried, kept or queued, or measured with no gain, and what it gave.

- **kept** — Oracle gap from en beam-curve: report the oracle LAS of the beam against the 1-best LAS at beam sizes 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 on EWT dev; a large gap, as the paper shows for 50-best, says a reranker has room to help. *([Coarse-to-Fine n-Best Parsing and MaxEnt Discriminative…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/narrative-2005-charniak-coarse-fine-n-best-parsing/) · beam oracle EWT dev our tags: width 1/2/4/8/16 1-best 75.27/78.12/78.83/79.39/79.24, oracle 75.27/79.67/82.20/84.14/85.52 (gap 4.74 at 8); commit 3ba5388e8)*

## Papers

1. **[Effective Self-Training for Parsing](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/aclbulk-2006-mcclosky-effective-self-training-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…
2. **[Reranking and Self-Training for Parser Adaptation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/aclbulk-2006-mcclosky-reranking-self-training-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.
3. **[Coarse-to-Fine n-Best Parsing and MaxEnt Discriminative Reranking](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/narrative-2005-charniak-coarse-fine-n-best-parsing/)** *(2005)* `1 idea kept` A discriminative reranker needs a good list of candidate parses for each sentence. The authors produce 50-best lists with a coarse-to-fine generative parser: a coarse pass prunes the chart, and a finer pass scores the surviving parses, which gives lists of much higher quality than the usual n-best output. A MaxEnt…
4. **[Using the Penn Treebank to Evaluate Non-Treebank Parsers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/bank-2004-ringger-penn-treebank-evaluate-non-treebank/)** *(2004)* The question is how to compare a parser that was never trained on the Penn Treebank (NLPWin, built at Microsoft Research) with Treebank-trained parsers such as Charniak's, when the two attach modifiers in a different order and use different brackets.

## Co-authors (6)

- [Mark Johnson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/mark-johnson/) ×3
- [David McClosky](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/papers/authors/david-mcclosky/) ×2
- Eric K. Ringger
- Hisami Suzuki
- Lucy Vanderwende
- Robert C. Moore
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