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2009

4 of the top 5 systems for Task 1 and the top system for each task in the BioNLP 2009 Shared Task used the Stanford Dependencies representation from the Stanford Parser.

New NAACL papers are available: Jurafsky on social meaning, Finkel on joint and hierarchical Bayesian models, Chang on discriminative reordering.

Former NLP Group Research Programmer and undergraduate, Chris Cox smiles from the front page of the Business section of the Sunday New York Times.

A new version of the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer is available, with an improved API.

2008

A new version of the Stanford Parser is available, with improved Stanford Dependencies, Arabic, and German.

Our EMNLP 2008 papers on temporal ordering, MT, non-expert annotation, and more are now available on our publications page.

A new version of our part-of-speech tagger is available.

Bill MacCartney won the Springer Best Paper award at Coling 2008. [Photos]

Manning, Raghavan & Schütze, Introduction to Information Retrieval is now available!

The second edition of Jurafsky & Martin, Speech and Language Processing is now available!

Our ACL 2008 papers on narratives, parsing, speech recognition, and contradictions are now available on our publications page.

Stanford had 5 full papers accepted at ACL-08: Chambers & al. on narratives, Finkel & al. on parsing, Goldwater & al. on speech, de Marneffe & al. on contradictions, Vickrey & al. on SRL ... papers available in April.

New versions of our part-of-speech tagger, named entity recognizer, and tregex tree search and viewing GUI are now available on our software page.

2007

The Stanford Parser version 1.6 has been released, featuring parsing of Arabic, k best PCFG parsing, improved typed dependencies output, and sundry other bug fixes.

The Stanford Classifier, a maxent classifier package, has been updated, and now includes a command-line interface.

Missed the LSA Linguistic Institute 2007? You can nevertheless look at and use our lectures on Speech Recognition and Synthesis and Statistical Parsing.

New ACL paper: Finkel, Grenager and Manning. 2007. The Infinite Tree. ACL 2007.