David McClosky

I'm a 5th (and final?) year doctoral student working with Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson in the Brown Laboratory for Linguistic Information Processing (BLLIP). I'm interested in statistical natural language processing specifically semi-supervised and unsupervised methods (primarily self-training) for morphology and syntax induction.

Publications

David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. BLLIP North American News Text. Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia, 2008. [complete] [general]
David McClosky. Modeling Valence Effects in Unsupervised Grammar Induction. Technical Report CS-09-01, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, 2008. [PS] [PDF]
David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. When is Self-Training Effective for Parsing? Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008), Manchester, UK. [PS] [PDF] [slides]
William P. Headden, David McClosky, and Eugene Charniak. Evaluating Unsupervised Part-of-Speech Tagging for Grammar Induction. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2008), Manchester, UK. [PS] [PDF]
David McClosky and Eugene Charniak. Self-Training for Biomedical Parsing. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2008, short papers), Columbus, Ohio. [PS] [PDF]
David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. Reranking and Self-Training for Parser Adaptation. Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL 2006), Sydney, Australia. [PS] [PDF] [slides]
Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, and David McClosky. A Look At Parsing and Its Applications. Proceedings of American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2006), Boston, Massachusetts. [PS] [PDF]
David McClosky, Eugene Charniak, and Mark Johnson. Effective Self-Training for Parsing. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Language Technology and North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL 2006), Brooklyn, New York. [PS] [PDF] [slides] [self-trained parser model]
Sharon Goldwater and David McClosky. Improving Statistical MT through Morphological Analysis. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (HLT-EMNLP 2005), Vancouver, Canada. [PS] [PDF] [poster]