PROFILE:
John Maxwell
John Maxwell is currently working on technologies for health care and social media.
John was the technical lead for PARC's XLE parser, which was one of the key enabling technologies used by Powerset for semantic search. Powerset, Inc. was acquired by Microsoft and became part of Bing. He also made significant contributions to the natural language technology that was licensed to Microlytics and to Inxight.
John joined PARC as an intern from MIT in 1978 as part of the Smalltalk group. His Master's thesis led to the first WYSIWYG music notation editor ("Mockingbird"), which appeared on the cover of Byte magazine in January 1984. John also helped develop the Cedar experimental programming environment before switching to computational linguistics.
PARC publications
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2010
2009
2008
Speeding up LFG parsing using C-structure pruning
Coling 2008: Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks
24 August 2008
2007
Pruning the search space of a hand-crafted parsing system with a probabilistic parser
ACL2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing
28 June 2007
2006
Efficient generation from packed input
Intelligent Linguistic Architectures, edited by M. Butt, M. Dalrymple and T. H. King.
15 December 2006
Grammatical machine translation
Human Language Technology Conference - North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting (H
5 June 2006
2005
On some pitfalls in automatic evaluation and significance testing for MT
ACL05 Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for MT and/or Summarization
28 June 2005
2004
Exploiting F-structure input for sentence condensation
Proceedings of the LFG04 Conference
1 December 2004
Integrating finite-state technology with deep LFG grammars
Combining Shallow and Deep Processing for NLP/ESSLLI
9 August 2004
Speed and accuracy in shallow and deep stochastic parsing
Human Language Technology Conference/North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Meeting
2 May 2004
2003
Implementing restriction for Urdu complex predicates
Lexical-Functional Grammar Conference 2003
13 July 2003
Productive encoding of Urdu complex predicates in the ParGram project
Workshop on Computational Linguistics for South Asian Languages (EACL03)
14 April 2003
2002
Adapting existing grammars: the XLE experience
19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002)
31 August 2002
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
7 July 2002
2000
Ambiguity management in grammar writing
Proceedings of the Workshop on Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation (ESSLLI-2000)
1 January 2000
1998
Optimality theory style constraint ranking in large scale LFG grammars.
Optimality Theory Syntax
25 August 1998
1996
Unification-based parsers that automatically take advantage of context freeness
LFG Colloqium
25 August 1996
1995
1993
1992
Training stochastic grammars from unlabelled text corpora
Practical Approaches to Scheduling and Planning: Papers from the AAAI Workshop; Technical Report WS-92-01
1 January 1992
1991
A method for disjunctive constraint satisfaction
Current issues in parsing technology
31 December 1991
The hybrid nature of Lexical-Functional Grammar
AAAI Symposium on Principles of Hybrid Reasoning
1 November 1991
1990
1989
An overview of disjunctive constraint satisfaction
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University
31 December 1989
1988
An algorithm for functional uncertainty
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 88)
31 December 1988
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1981
1980