[CL+NLP Lunch] Next Monday, 3:30: Yoav Goldberg on syntactic parsing for Hebrew

[Nathan Schneider]

Reminder: Yoav's talk is tomorrow. See you at 3:30!

Nathan & Ben

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Nathan Schneider <nathan at cmu.edu> wrote:

> All,
>
> This month's CL+NLP seminar will feature Yoav Goldberg, and will take place
> at a special time:
>
> *Monday, April 11, 3:30pm
> NSH 3305
> *
> Dealing with the Complexities of Syntactic Parsing in Hebrew: Addressing
> agreement, word-segmentation and rich morphology in a fast dependency parser
>
> Abstract:
> I will describe my experience with designing a syntactic parser for Hebrew,
> a language with rich morphology and a small treebank. After describing some
> of the characteristics that make automatic syntactic processing of Hebrew
> challenging and discuss some data representation issues, I will present some
> solutions to these challenges. These include improvements of a
> semi-supervised broad-coverage tagger, and a greedy dependency parser which
> can accommodate rich feature-sets and cope with noisy data while remaining
> fast. I will also briefly discuss a constituency parsing system that
> performs joint morphological segmentation and syntactic parsing. The work on
> Hebrew brought about solutions that work well also for English, I will point
> to these results when appropriate.
>
> Bio:
> Yoav Goldberg is finishing up his PhD in Ben-Gurion University in Israel
> under the supervision of Prof. Michael Elhadad.  His PhD work revolves
> around natural language processing in Hebrew and morphologically rich
> languages, syntactic parsing, and doing fun stuff with computers and
> language.  Prior to his PhD he participated in the Israeli Hi-Tech industry,
> mostly as a freelance security consultant. His research interests include
> structured prediction, computational creativity and confidence estimation.
>
> Host: Shay Cohen
>
> Snacks will be served.
>
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