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Mark Johnson

Researcher at Oracle Corporation

Publications -  325
Citations -  24160

Mark Johnson is an academic researcher from Oracle Corporation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Parsing & Language model. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 323 publications receiving 20142 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark Johnson include Brown University & Carnegie Mellon University.

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Hierarchical Preferences in a Broad-Coverage Lexical Taxonomy

TL;DR: Results are presented from a study which shows that speakers often exhibit strong preferences on what superordinate is more informative, together with a solid bias for specific classes, and the task of iden- tifying the properties that characterize such concepts in the taxonomy as a ranking problem is defined.
Patent

Multi-lingual semantic parser based on transferred learning

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a system that uses knowledge from a trained model in one language to model another language by transferring knowledge of a semantic parser from a first language to a second language.
Proceedings Article

The effect of non-tightness on Bayesian estimation of PCFGs

TL;DR: This paper proposes three different ways of reinterpreting non-tight PCFGs to make them tight, shows that the Bayesian estimators in Johnson et al. (2007) are correct under one of them, and provides MCMC samplers for the other two.