papers

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Marco Kuhlmann, Giorgio Satta and David Weir (2009) Optimal Reduction of Rule Length in Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems, in Proc. of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies Conference (NAACL'09:HLT),

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, David Weir and John Carroll (2009) Parsing Mildly Non-Projective Dependency Structures, in Proc. of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'09),

Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, John Carroll and David Weir (2008) A Deductive Approach to Dependency Parsing, in Proc. of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (ACL'08:HLT), [download: pdf] Columbus, Ohio, USA

Julie Weeds, James Dowdall, Gerold Schneider, Bill Keller and David Weir (2007) Using Distributional Similarity to Organise BioMedical Terminology, in F. Ibekwe-SanJuan, A. Condamines and M. T. Cabre Castellvi (eds.) Application-Driven Terminology Engineering 97-126. [download]

Roger Evans, David Weir, John Carroll, Daniel Paiva and Anja Belz (2007) Modelling Control in Generation. In Proceedings of European Natural Language Generation Workshop. [download]

Julie Weeds and David Weir (2005) Co-occurrence Retrieval: a General Framework for Lexical Distributional Similarity. In Computational Linguistics 31(4) 439-476. [download]

Julie Weeds, David Weir and Bill Keller (2005) The Distributional Similarity of Sub-Parses. In Empirical Modeling of Semantic Equivalence and Entailment, Workshop at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL 2005), Ann Arbor, Michigan. [download: pdf]

Tim Owen, Ian Wakeman, Bill Keller, Julie Weeds and David Weir (2005) Managing the Policies of Non-Technical Users in a Dynamic World. In IEEE Workshop on Policy for Distributed Systems and Networks. [download: pdf]

Jon Rimmer, Tim Owen, Ian Wakeman, Bill Keller, Julie Weeds and David Weir (2005) User Policies in Pervasive Computing Environments. In User Experience Design for Pervasive Computing, Pervasive 2005 Workshop. [download: pdf]

Julie Weeds, James Dowdall, Gerold Schneider, Bill Keller and David Weir (2005) Using Distributional Similarity to Organise BioMedical Terminology, Terminology 11(1), 107-141. [download: pdf]

Bill Keller, Tim Owen, Ian Wakeman, Julie Weeds and David Weir (2005) Middleware for User Controlled Environments, in PerWare '05 (Middleware Support for Pervasive Computing). [download: pdf]

Julie Weeds, David Weir and Diana McCarthy (2004) Characterising Measures of Lexical Distributional Similarity, in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference of Computational Linguistics COLING-2004. [download: pdf]

Julie Weeds, Bill Keller, David Weir, Ian Wakeman, Jon Rimmer and Tim Owen (2004) Natural Language Expression of User Policies in Pervasive Computing Environments. In Proceedings of OntoLex 2004 (LREC Workshop on Ontologies and Lexical Resources in Distributed Environments). [download: ps pdf]

Evans, R., K. van Deemter, A. Belz, J. Teeple, D. Weir, J. Carroll, D. Paiva and E. Esteve Ferrer (2004) Controlling wide-coverage generation - the COGENT project'. In INLG04 Posters: Extended abstracts of posters presented at the Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Report ITRI-04-01, ITRI, University of Brighton. 14-17.

Julie Weeds and David Weir (2003) A General Framework for Distributional Similarity, in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2003), Sapporo, Japan. [download: ps pdf]

Julie Weeds and David Weir (2003) Finding and Evaluating Sets of Nearest Neighbours, in Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster. [download: pdf]

Stephen Clark and David Weir (2002) Class-based Probability Estimation Using a Semantic Hierarchy, Computational Linguistics 28(2), 187-206. [download]

Olga Shaumyan, John Carroll and David Weir (2002) Evaluation of LTAG Parsing with Supertag Compaction, in Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks, Venice, Italy. [download: ps pdf]

Stephen Clark and David Weir (2001) Class-based Probability Estimation Using a Semantic Hierarchy, in Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (NAACL-2001), 95-102 June 2001. [download: ps pdf]

Owen Rambow K. Vijay-Shanker and David Weir (2001) D-Tree Substitution Grammars, Computational Linguistics 27(1):87-122. [download]

John Carroll and David Weir (2000) Encoding Frequency Information in Lexicalized Grammars, in H. Bunt and A. Nijhot (eds.), Advances in Probabilistic and Other Parsing Technologies, 13-28, Kluwer. [download: ps pdf]

Roger Evans, Gerald Gazdar and David Weir (2000) `Lexical Rules' are just lexical rules, in A. Abeille and O. Rambow (eds.), Tree Adjoining Grammars: linguistic, formal and computational properties, 71-100, CSLI Lecture Notes. [download: ps pdf]

Stephen Clark and David Weir (2000) A Class-based Probabilistic approach to Structural Disambiguation, in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 194-200, Saarbrucken, Germany. [download: ps pdf]

John Carroll, Nicolas Nicolov, Olga Shaumyan, Martine Smets and David Weir (2000) Engineering a Wide-Coverage Lexicalized Grammar, in Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks, 55-60, Paris, France. [download: ps pdf]

K. Vijay-Shanker and David Weir (1999) Exploring the Underspecified World of Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars, in Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting on Mathematics of Language. [download: ps pdf]

Stephen Clark and David Weir (1999) An Iterative Approach to Estimating Frequencies over a Semantic Hierarchy, in Proceedings of the Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora. [download: ps pdf]

John Carroll, Nicolas Nicolov, Olga Shaumyan, Martine Smets and David Weir (1999) Parsing with an Extended Domain of Locality, in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [download: ps pdf]

Roger Evans and David Weir (1998) structure-sharing parser for lexicalized grammars, in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [download: ps pdf]

John Carroll, Nicolas Nicolov, Olga Shaumyan, Martine Smets and David Weir (1998) The LEXSYS Project, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Tree Adjoining Grammars and Related Frameworks. [download: ps pdf]

John Carroll, Nicolas Nicolov, Olga Shaumyan, Martine Smets and David Weir (1998) Grammar Compaction and Computation Sharing in Automaton-based Parsing, in Proceedings of the First Workshop on Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction. [download: ps pdf]

Roger Evans and David Weir (1997) Automaton-Based Parsing for Lexicalized Grammars, in Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. [download: ps pdf]

John Carroll and David Weir (1997) Encoding Frequency Information in Lexicalized Grammars, in Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. [download: ps]

Owen Rambow, K. Vijay-Shanker and David Weir (1995) D-Tree Grammars, in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 151-158. [download: ps pdf]

K. Vijay-Shanker, David Weir and Owen Rambow (1995) Parsing D-Tree Grammars, in Proceedings of the International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. [download: ps pdf]

Roger Evans, Gerald Gazdar and David Weir (1995) Encoding Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammars with a Nonmonotonic Inheritance Hierarchy, in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 77-84. [download: ps pdf]

Owen Rambow, K. Vijay-Shanker and David Weir (1995) Formal Properties of D-Tree Grammars, in Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on the Mathematics of Language.

Bill Keller and David Weir (1995) A Tractable Extension of Linear Indexed Grammars, in Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 75-82. [download: ps pdf]

David Weir (1994) Linear iterated pushdowns, Computational Intelligence, 10(4):422-430. [download: ps pdf]

K. Vijay-Shanker and David Weir (1994) The Equivalence of four extensions of context-free grammars, Mathematical Systems Theory, 27:511-545. [download: ps pdf]

K. Vijay-Shanker and David Weir (1993) Parsing some constrained grammar formalisms, Computational Linguistics, 19(4):591-636.

K. Vijay-Shanker and David Weir (1993) The use of shared-forests in Tree Adjoining Grammar Parsing, in Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 384-393. [download: ps pdf]

David Weir (1992) A geometric hierarchy beyond context-free languages, Theoretical Computer Science, 104:235-261.

David Weir (1992) Linear context-free rewriting systems and deterministic tree-walking transducers, in Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [download: ps pdf]

David Weir (1992) Automata theory as relevant to linguistics, in W. Bright, editor, Oxford International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics, volume 1, pages 145-146. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England.

K. Vijay-Shanker and David Weir (1991) Polynomial parsing of extensions of Context-free Grammars, in M. Tomita, editor, Current Issues in Parsing Technology, pages 191-206. Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Aravind Joshi, K. Vijay-Shanker and David Weir (1991) The convergence of mildly context-sensitive grammar formalisms, in T. Wasow and P. Sells, editors, The Processing of Linguistic Structure, pages 31-81. MIT Press.

K. Vijay-Shanker and David Weir (1990) Polynomial parsing of Combinatory Categorial Grammars, in Proceedings of the 28th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 1-8, Pittsburgh, PA.

David Weir (1990) Computational properties of constrained grammar formalisms, in MIT Parsing Project Working Papers Volume 9, MIT Press, Center for Cognitive Science, MIT.

K. Vijay-Shanker and David Weir (1989) The recognition of Combinatory Categorial Grammars, Linear Indexed Grammars, and Tree Adjoining Grammars, in Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, pages 172-181.

David Weir (1988) Characterizing Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammar Formalisms, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylviania. [pdf]

David Weir and Aravind Joshi (1988) Combinatory Categorial Grammars: Generative power and relationship to Linear Context-free Rewriting Systems, in Proceedings of the 26th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 278-285.

K. Vijay-Shanker, David Weir and Aravind Joshi (1987) Characterizing structural descriptions produced by various grammatical formalisms, in Proceedings of the 25th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 104-111.

K. Vijay-Shanker, David Weir and Aravind Joshi (1987) On the progression from Context-free to Tree Adjoining languages, in A. Manaster-Ramer, editor, Mathematics of Language, pages 389-401, John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

K. Vijay-Shanker, David Weir and Aravind Joshi (1986) Tree Adjoining and head wrapping, in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 202-207.

David Weir , K. Vijay-Shanker and Aravind Joshi (1986) The relationship between Tree Adjoining Grammars and Head Grammars, in Proceedings of the 24th Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 67-74.