Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:11:18 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.1 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 02:07:51 GMT Content-length: 6158 The Proteus Project

The Proteus Project

Proteus

Department of Computer Science

New York University

Office: 715 Broadway, 7th floor, New York, NY 10003 USA
Phone: (212) 998-3497
Fax No: (212) 995-4123

Research Goals

The Proteus Project is a project of research and development in natural language processing, conducted in the Department of Computer Science, New York University, under the direction of Prof. Ralph Grishman.

The basic research is focussed on the automated acquisition of linguistic knowledge from large corpora. We are developing methods for the acquisition of probabilistic grammars, semantic relations between words, and selectional patterns.

This research is tied to applications in four areas:

    information retrieval (the retrieval of documents from large collections)
    information extraction (extracting information about particular types of events from free text)
    machine translation
    language modeling for speech recognition


Projects


Members

Slava Katz works on the project as a consultant.


Publications, Technical Reports


Acknowledgements

    The project is supported by grants and contracts from the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the National Science Foundation, and the Linguistic Data Consortium.


Useful Links


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