Towards a base noun phrase parser using Web counts
Vasile Rus, Sireesha Ravi · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2006
Syntactic parsing is an important processing step for various language processing applications including Information Extraction, Question Answering, and Machine Translation. Parsing base Noun Phrases is one particular parsing case that has not been addressed so far in the literature. In this paper we present a semester-long research project that aimed at investigating the base Noun Phrase parsing problem and efficiently implementing a base Noun Phrase parser based on a statistical model and web counts. Using web counts, instead of manually annotated data, to induce the parameters of the statistical model makes our method unsupervised. Although, this was a project for a graduate independent study class we plan to use it as a team project for an undergraduate class.