Robust Parser

An extragrammatical sentence is what a normal parser fails to analyze. It is important to recover it using only syn- tactic information although results of recovery are better if semantic …...

Human understanding of spoken language ap- pears to integrate the use of contextual ex- pectations with acoustic level perception in a tightly-coupled, sequential fashion. Yet com- puter speech understanding systems …...

For many NLP applications that require a parser, the sentences of interest may not be well-formed. If the parser can overlook prob- lems such as grammar mistakes and produce a …...