Evaluating a Statistical CCG Parser on Wikipedia
The vast majority of parser evaluation is conducted on the 1984 Wall Street Journal (WSJ). In-domain evaluation of this kind is important for system development, but gives little indication about how the parser will perform on many practical problems. Wikipedia is an interesting domain for parsing that has so far been under-explored. We present statistical parsing results that for the first time provide information about what sort of performance a user parsing Wikipedia text can expect.