Stephen Clark

Publications

  • Vector Space Models of Lexical Meaning
    Stephen Clark
    A draft chapter to appear in the forthcoming Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Contemporary Semantics — second edition, edited by Shalom Lappin and Chris Fox
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  • Computational Syntax
    Emily M. Bender, Stephen Clark and Tracy Holloway King
    To appear in the forthcoming de Gruyter Handbook of Contemporary Syntax, edited by Kiss, Tibor and Anneli von Könemann

2013

  • The Frobenius Anatomy of Relative Pronouns
    Stephen Clark, Bob Coecke and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
    Proceedings of the 13th meeting of the ACL SIG for the Mathematics of Language (MOL-13), Sofia, Bulgaria
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  • Semantic Parsing as Machine Translation
    Jacob Andreas, Andreas Vlachos and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the Short Papers of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-13), Sofia, Bulgaria
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  • Type-Driven Syntax and Semantics for Composing Meaning Vectors
    Stephen Clark
    Quantum Physics and Linguistics: A Compositional, Diagrammatic Discourse, pp.359-377, Chris Heunen, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, and Edward Grefenstette (eds), Oxford University Press, 2013
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2012

  • Adjective Deletion for Linguistic Steganography and Secret Sharing
    Ching-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-12), pp.493-510, Mumbai, India, 2012
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  • The Secret's in the Word Order: Text-to-Text Generation for Linguistic Steganography
    Ching-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-12), pp.511-528, Mumbai, India, 2012
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  • Talking Places: Modelling and Analysing Linguistic Content in Foursquare
    Sandro Bauer, Anastasios Noulas, Diarmuid O Seaghdha, Stephen Clark, and Cecilia Mascolo
    Proceedings of The ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2012), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012
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  • Syntax-Based Word Ordering Incorporating a Large-Scale Language Model
    Yue Zhang, Graeme Blackwood and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-12), pp.736-746, Avignon, France, 2012
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2011

  • Syntax-Based Grammaticality Improvement using CCG and Guided Search
    Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-11), pp.1147-1157, Edinburgh, UK, 2011
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  • Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing
    Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT (ACL 2011), pp.683-692, Portland, Oregon, 2011
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  • Syntactic Processing using the Generalized Perceptron and Beam Search
    Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark
    Computational Linguistics, 37(1), pp.105-151, 2011
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  • Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning
    Bob Coecke, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, and Stephen Clark
    Linguistic Analysis, 36(1-4): A Festschrift for Joachim Lambek, pp. 345-384, van Bentham and Moortgat (eds), 2011
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  • Concrete Sentence Spaces for Compositional Distributional Models of Meaning
    Edward Grefenstette, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Stephen Clark, Bob Coecke and Stephen Pulman
    Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-11), pp.125-134, Oxford, UK, 2011
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2010

  • A Fast Decoder for Joint Word Segmentation and POS-Tagging using a Single Discriminative Model
    Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-10), pp.843-852, Cambridge, MA, 2010
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  • Practical Linguistic Steganography using Contextual Synonym Substitution and Vertex Colour Coding
    Ching-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-10), pp.1194-1203, Cambridge, MA, 2010
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  • Linguistic Steganography using Automatically Generated Paraphrases
    Ching-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT-10), pp. 591-599, Los Angeles, 2010
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  • Faster Parsing by Supertagger Adaptation
    Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Jessika Roesner, Tim Dawborn, James Haggerty, James R. Curran and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), pp.345-355, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010
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  • Chart Pruning for Fast Lexicalised-Grammar Parsing
    Yue Zhang, Byung-Gyu Ahn, Stephen Clark, Curt Van Wyk, James R. Curran and Laura Rimell
    Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-10), pp.1471-1479, Beijing, China, 2010
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  • Parser Evaluation using Textual Entailment by Grammatical Relation Comparison
    Laura Rimell and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (Semeval-2010), pp.268-271, Uppsala, Sweden, 2010
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  • Statistical Parsing
    Stephen Clark
    Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, pp.333-363, Clark, Fox and Lappin (eds), Blackwell, 2010
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  • Supertagging for Efficient Wide-Coverage CCG Parsing
    Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
    Supertagging: Using Complex Lexical Descriptions in Natural Language Processing, pp.221-233, Bangalore and Joshi (eds), MIT Press, 2010
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2009

  • Porting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to the Biomedical Domain
    Laura Rimell and Stephen Clark
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 42(5), pp.852-865, 2009
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  • Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation
    Laura Rimell, Stephen Clark and Mark Steedman
    Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-09), pp.813-821, Singapore, 2009
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  • Comparing the Accuracy of CCG and Penn Treebank Parsers
    Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
    Proceedings of the Short Papers of the Joint conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (ACL-IJCNLP-09), pp.53-56, Singapore, 2009
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  • Transition-Based Parsing of the Chinese Treebank using a Global Discriminative Model
    Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technology (IWPT-09), pp.162-171, Paris, France, 2009
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  • EBMT for SMT: A New EBMT-SMT Hybrid
    James Smith and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Example-Based Machine Translation, pp.3-10, Dublin, Ireland, 2009
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  • Large-Scale Syntactic Processing: Parsing the Web
    Stephen Clark, Ann Copestake, James R. Curran, Yue Zhang, Aurelie Herbelot, James Haggerty, Byung-Gyu Ahn, Curt Van Wyk, Jessika Roesner, Jonathan Kummerfeld, Tim Dawborn
    Final Report of the JHU CLSP Workshop, Johns Hopkins University, 2009
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2008

  • ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks
    Brian Harrington and Stephen Clark
    International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2(3), pp.343-364, 2008
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  • Joint Word Segmentation and POS Tagging using a Single Perceptron
    Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-08), pp.888-896, Columbus, Ohio, 2008
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  • A Tale of Two Parsers: investigating and combining graph-based and transition-based dependency parsing using beam-search
    Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-08), pp.562-571, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2008
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  • Adapting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to Contrasting Domains
    Laura Rimell and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-08), pp.475-484, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2008
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  • ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks
    Brian Harrington and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-08), pp.166-173, Santa Clara, Ca, 2008
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  • A Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning
    Stephen Clark, Bob Coecke and Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
    Proceedings of the Second Symposium on Quantum Interaction (QI-2008), pp.133-140, Oxford, UK, 2008
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  • Constructing a Parser Evaluation Scheme
    Laura Rimell and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the COLING workshop on Cross-Framework and Cross-Domain Parser Evaluation, pp.44-50, Manchester, UK, 2008
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2007

  • Wide-Coverage Efficient Statistical Parsing with CCG and Log-Linear Models
    Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
    Computational Linguistics, 33(4), pp.493-552, 2007
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  • Formalism-Independent Parser Evaluation with CCG and DepBank
    Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
    Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), pp.248-255, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007
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  • Chinese Segmentation with a Word-Based Perceptron Algorithm
    Yue Zhang and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), pp.840-847, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007
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  • ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network
    Brian Harrington and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), pp.889-894, Vancouver, Canada, 2007
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  • Perceptron Training for a Wide-Coverage Lexicalized-Grammar Parser
    Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
    Proceedings of the ACL-07 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing, pp.9-16, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007
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  • Linguistically Motivated Large-Scale NLP with C&C and Boxer
    James R. Curran, Stephen Clark and Johan Bos
    Proceedings of the Demonstrations Session of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-07), pp.29-32, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007
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  • Improving the Efficiency of a Wide-Coverage CCG Parser
    Bojan Djordjevic, James R. Curran and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Parsing Technology (IWPT-07), pp.39-47, Prague, Czech Republic, 2007
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  • Combining Symbolic and Distributional Models of Meaning
    Stephen Clark and Stephen Pulman
    Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Quantum Interaction, pp.52-55, Stanford, CA, 2007
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2006

  • Multi-Tagging for Lexicalized-Grammar Parsing
    James R. Curran, Stephen Clark and David Vadas
    Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING/ACL-06), pp.697-704, Sydney, Australia, 2006
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  • Partial Training for a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser
    Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
    Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-06), pp.144-151, New York, 2006
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2004

  • Parsing the WSJ using CCG and Log-Linear Models
    Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
    Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-04), pp.104-111, Barcelona, Spain, 2004
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  • Object-Extraction and Question-Parsing using CCG
    Stephen Clark, Mark Steedman and James R. Curran
    Proceedings of the SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-04), pp.111-118, Barcelona, Spain, 2004
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  • The Importance of Supertagging for Wide-Coverage CCG Parsing
    Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
    Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-04), pp.282-288, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004
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  • Wide-Coverage Semantic Representations from a CCG Parser
    Johan Bos, Stephen Clark, Mark Steedman, James R. Curran and Julia Hockenmaier
    Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-04), pp.1240-1246, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004
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2003

  • Investigating GIS and Smoothing for Maximum Entropy Taggers
    James R. Curran and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-03), pp.91-98, Budapest, Hungary, 2003
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  • Log-Linear Models for Wide-Coverage CCG Parsing
    Stephen Clark and James R. Curran
    Proceedings of the SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-03), pp.97-104, Sapporo, Japan, 2003
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  • Bootstrapping Statistical Parsers from Small Datasets
    Mark Steedman, Miles Osborne, Anoop Sarkar, Stephen Clark, Rebecca Hwa, Julia Hockenmaier, Paul Ruhlen, Stephen Baker, and Jeremiah Crim
    Proceedings of the 11th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL-03), pp.331-338, Budapest, Hungary, 2003
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  • Example Selection for Bootstrapping Statistical Parsers
    Mark Steedman, Rebecca Hwa, Stephen Clark, Miles Osborne, Anoop Sarkar, Julia Hockenmaier, Paul Ruhlen, Stephen Baker, and Jeremiah Crim
    Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT-03), pp.157-164, Edmonton, Canada, 2003
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  • Language Independent NER using a Maximum Entropy Tagger
    James R. Curran and Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-03), pp.164-167, Edmonton, Canada, 2003
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  • Bootstrapping POS-Taggers using Unlabelled Data
    Stephen Clark, James R. Curran and Miles Osborne
    Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL-03), pp.49-55, Edmonton, Canada, 2003
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2002

  • Class-Based Probability Estimation using a Semantic Hierarchy
    Stephen Clark and David Weir
    Computational Linguistics, 28(2), pp.187-206, 2002
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  • Building Deep Dependency Structures with a Wide-Coverage CCG Parser
    Stephen Clark, Julia Hockenmaier and Mark Steedman
    Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-02), pp.327-334, Philadephia, PA, 2002
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  • Supertagging for Combinatory Categorial Grammar
    Stephen Clark
    Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks (TAG+6), pp.19-24, Venice, Italy, 2002
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  • Evaluating a Wide-Coverage CCG Parser
    Stephen Clark and Julia Hockenmaier
    Proceedings of the LREC 2002 Beyond Parseval Workshop, pp.60-66, Las Palmas, Spain, 2002
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1999-2001

  • Class-Based Probability Estimation using a Semantic Hierarchy
    Stephen Clark and David Weir
    Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-01), pp.95-102, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001
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  • Class-Based Statistical Models for Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
    Stephen Clark
    Cognitive Science Research Paper 539, University of Sussex, 2001
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  • A Class-Based Probabilistic Approach to Structural Disambiguation
    Stephen Clark and David Weir
    Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-2000), pp.194-200, Saarbrucken, Germany, 2000
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  • An Iterative Approach to Estimating Frequencies over a Semantic Hierarchy
    Stephen Clark and David Weir
    Proceedings of the Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora (EMNLP-VLC-99), pp.258-265, University of Maryland, MD, 1999
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