The extremely weak propagation mechanisms of real business cycle (RBC) models are well acknowledged, and some effort has been devoted to improving the models on this dimension. This paper builds on these efforts to provide an explicit explanation of why various existing RBC models do not replicate real world business cycles, and discusses modifications necessary to bring real business cycle the...

This paper describes our experience in preparing the data and evaluating the results for three subtasks of SemEval-2007 Task-17 – Lexical Sample, Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) and All-Words respectively. We tabulate and analyze the results of participating systems.

We propose a system to carry out the joint parsing of syntactic and semantic dependencies in multiple languages for our participation in the shared task of CoNLL-2009. We present an iterative approach for dependency parsing and semantic role labeling. We have participated in the closed challenge, and our system achieves 73.98% on labeled macro F1 for the complete problem, 77.11% on labeled atta...

This paper addresses the task of finding antecedents for locally uninstantiated arguments. To resolve such null instantiations, we develop a weakly supervised approach that investigates and combines a number of linguistically motivated strategies that are inspired by work on semantic role labeling and corefence resolution. The performance of the system is competitive with the current state-of-t...

We describe our CoNLL 2009 Shared Task system in the present paper. The system includes three cascaded components: a generative dependency parser, a classifier for syntactic dependency labels and a semantic classifier. The experimental results show that the labeled macro F1 scores of our system on the joint task range from 43.50% (Chinese) to 57.95% (Czech), with an average of 51.07%.