--- title: "James Curran — papers and cards" description: "James Curran: 3 paper cards in the Research library (2005–2007), with what each paper is about, the ideas Mova took from it, and the co-authors." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-curran/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-curran/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / James Curran # James Curran 3 paper cards in the Research library · 2005–2007 James Curran wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2005–2007, most of them on [Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/); often with [David Vadas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-vadas/), [Stephen Clark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-clark/). [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9637-0484) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=James+Curran) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=James+Curran) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=James+Curran) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=James+Curran) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/orcid-search/search?searchQuery=James+Curran) Topics: [Treebanks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/treebanks/) 1 ## Papers 1. **[Adding Noun Phrase Structure to the Penn Treebank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bank-2007-vadas-adding-noun-phrase-structure-penn/)** *(2007)* The Penn Treebank leaves base noun phrases flat, so "Air Force contract" has no internal structure, and any parser trained on it cannot learn that "Air Force" is a unit. 2. **[Formalism-Independent Parser Evaluation with CCG and DepBank](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2007-clark-formalism-independent-parser-evaluation-ccg/)** *(2007)* Parsers that use different formalisms produce different output, so their scores cannot be compared directly. 3. **[Supersense Tagging of Unknown Nouns using Semantic Similarity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aclbulk-2005-curran-supersense-tagging-unknown-nouns-semantic/)** *(2005)* Curran classifies unknown common nouns into the 26 WordNet lexicographer supersenses without any annotated examples. ## Co-authors (2) - [David Vadas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-vadas/) - [Stephen Clark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-clark/)