- ec@cs.brown.edu
- Box 1910, Computer Science Department
- Brown University
- Providence, RI 02912
- 401-863-7636 (voice)
- 401-863-7657 (fax)
- Finger me.
- Statistical Language Learning, Cambridge: MIT Press
(1993)
- Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence (with Drew McDermott), Reading MA:
Addison-Wesley (1985)
- Artificial Intelligence Programming
(now in a second edition) (with Chris Riesbeck, Drew McDermott, and
James Meehan), Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (1980, 1987)
- Computational Semantics, (with
Yorick Wilks), Amsterdam: North-Holland (1976)
Parsing and Speech
- Immediate-Head Parsing for Language Models
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
(2001)
An abstract
and gzipped postscript version are
available.
- Edit Detection and Parsing for Transcribed
Speech (with Mark Johnson).
Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 118-126 (2001)
An abstract
and gzipped postscript version are
available.
Lexical Semantics and Anaphora
- Unsupervised learning of name structure from
coreference data
Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 48-54 (2001)
An
abstract and gzipped
postscript version
are available.
- Finding parts in very large corpora
(with Matthew Berland),
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics, pp 57-64 (1999)
An abstract
and postscript version are
available.
- A statistical approach to anaphora resolution,
(with Niyu Ge and John Hale),
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora
(1998).
An abstract
and postscript version are
available.
- Noun-phrase co-occurrence statistics for semi-automatic
semantic lexicon construction,
(with Brian Roark),
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics and 17th International Conference on
Computational Linguistics
(1998)
An abstract and
a postscript version are available.
Efficient Parsing
- Edge-based best-first chart parsing ,
(with Sharon Goldwater and Mark Johnson),
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Very Large Corpora
(1998)
An abstract
and postscript version are
available.
- New figures of merit for best-first probabilistic chart
parsing , (with Sharon Caraballo)
Computational Linguistics , (1998).
A
postscript version is available.
Statistical Parsing
- A Maximum-Entropy-Inspired Parser
Proceedings of NAACL-2000
An abstract
and
postscript version are available.
- Statistical techniques for natural language parsing
AI Magazine. (1997).
An abstract
and
postscript version are available.
- Statistical parsing with a context-free grammar and word statistics,
Proceedings of the Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
AAAI Press/MIT Press, Menlo Park (1997).
An abstract
and
postscript version are available.
- Tree-bank grammars,
Technical Report CS-96-02,
Department of Computer Science, Brown University (1996).
An abstract
and
postscript version are available.
- A statistical syntactic disambiguation program and what
it learns, (with
Murat Ersan), TR CS-95-29 Brown University, Department of
Computer Science (1996). (In
Symbolic, Connectionist, and Statistical Approaches
to Learning for Natural Language Processing,
S. Wermter, E. Riloff, and G. Scheler Eds.,
New York: Springer (1996).)
An abstract
and
postscript version are available.
Part-of-Speach Tagging
- Taggers for parsers, (with
Glenn Carroll, John Adcock, Antony Cassandra, Yoshihiko Gotoh,
Jeremy Katz, Michael Littman, and John McCann),
Artificial Intelligence (forthcoming).
An abstract
and postscript version
are available.
The
techreport version is also available.
- Equations for part-of-speech tagging, with
Curtis Hendrickson, Neil Jacobson, and Mike Perkowitz,
Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence,
Menlo Park: AAAI Press/MIT Press (1993) 784-789.
An abstract
and
postscript version are available.
Some of my statistical parsers are available for research use.
Please look at the Brown Computer Science Homepage, under Software
Catalog, and then under
nlparser.
Unfortunately I cannot really
support them, so I will almost certainly not
respond to e-mails for help unless the problem looks particularly interesting.
To inspire research into parsing, I thought it might be interesting
to publicize a list of sentences on which my parser performs
poorly. Look here.
Eugene Charniak is Professor of Computer
Science.
and Cognitive Science
at Brown University.
He received an A.B. degree in Physics from University of
Chicago and a Ph.D. from M.I.T. in Computer Science. He has
published four books: Computational Semantics, with
Yorick Wilks (1976); Artificial Intelligence Programming
(now in a second edition) with Chris Riesbeck, Drew McDermott, and
James Meehan (1980, 1987); Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence with Drew McDermott (1985); and Statistical
Language Learning (1993). He is a Fellow of the American
Association of Artificial Intelligence and was previously a Councilor
of the organization. His research has always been in the area of
language understanding or technologies which relate to it, such as
knowledge representation, reasoning under uncertainty, and learning.
Over the last few years he has been interested in statistical
techniques for language understanding. His research in this area has
included work in the subareas of part-of-speech tagging,
probabilistic context-free grammar induction, and, more recently,
syntactic disambiguation through word statistics, efficient syntactic
parsing, and lexical resource acquisition through statistical means.