Tracy Holloway King

Also published as: Tracy H. King


2025

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RouteNator: A Router-Based Multi-Modal Architecture for Generating Synthetic Training Data for Function Calling LLMs
Dewang Sultania | Vibha Belavadi | Tushar Vatsa | Suhas Suresha | Ishita Verma | Tracy Holloway King | Mifriedr Mifriedr | Cheng Chen
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Knowledge-Augmented Methods for Natural Language Processing

This paper addresses fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) for function calling tasks when real user interaction data is unavailable. In digital content creation tools, where users express their needs through natural language queries that must be mapped to API calls, the lack of real-world task-specific data and privacy constraints for training on it necessitate synthetic data generation. Existing approaches to synthetic data generation fall short in diversity and complexity, failing to replicate real-world data distributions and leading to suboptimal performance after LLM fine-tuning. We present a novel router-based architecture that leverages domain resources like content metadata and structured knowledge graphs, along with text-to-text and vision-to-text language models to generate high-quality synthetic training data. Our architecture’s flexible routing mechanism enables synthetic data generation that matches observed real-world distributions, addressing a fundamental limitation of traditional approaches. Evaluation on a comprehensive set of real user queries demonstrates significant improvements in both function classification accuracy and API parameter selection. Models fine-tuned with our synthetic data consistently outperform traditional approaches, establishing new benchmarks for function calling tasks.

2020

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Search Query Language Identification Using Weak Labeling
Ritiz Tambi | Ajinkya Kale | Tracy Holloway King
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Language identification is a well-known task for natural language documents. In this paper we explore search query language identification which is usually the first task before any other query understanding. Without loss of generalization, we run our experiments on the Adobe Stock search engine. Even though the domain is relatively generic because Adobe Stock queries cover a broad range of objects and concepts, out-of-the-box language identifiers do not perform well due to the extremely short text found in queries. Unlike other well-studied supervised approaches for this task, we examine a practical approach for the cold start problem for automatically getting large-scale query-language pairs for training. We describe the process of creating weak-labeled training data and then human-annotated evaluation data for the search query language identification task. The effectiveness of this technique is demonstrated by training a gradient boosting model for language classification given a query. We out-perform the open domain text model baselines by a large margin.

2015

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Encoding event structure in Urdu/Hindi VerbNet
Annette Hautli-Janisz | Tracy Holloway King | Gilian Ramchand
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on EVENTS: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation

2014

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Mickey Mouse is not a Phrase: Improving Relevance in E-Commerce with Multiword Expressions
Prathyusha Senthil Kumar | Vamsi Salaka | Tracy Holloway King | Brian Johnson
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE)

2013

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ParGramBank: The ParGram Parallel Treebank
Sebastian Sulger | Miriam Butt | Tracy Holloway King | Paul Meurer | Tibor Laczkó | György Rákosi | Cheikh Bamba Dione | Helge Dyvik | Victoria Rosén | Koenraad De Smedt | Agnieszka Patejuk | Özlem Çetinoğlu | I Wayan Arka | Meladel Mistica
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

2012

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Book Review: Unification Grammars by Nissim Francez and Shuly Wintner
Tracy Holloway King
Computational Linguistics, Volume 38, Issue 2 - June 2012

2009

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Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2009)
Tracy Holloway King | Marianne Santaholma
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2009)

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Using Large-scale Parser Output to Guide Grammar Development
Ascander Dost | Tracy Holloway King
Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks (GEAF 2009)

2008

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Type-checking in Formally Non-typed Systems
Dick Crouch | Tracy Holloway King
Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing

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Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Framework and Cross-Domain Parser Evaluation
Johan Bos | Edward Briscoe | Aoife Cahill | John Carroll | Stephen Clark | Ann Copestake | Dan Flickinger | Josef van Genabith | Julia Hockenmaier | Aravind Joshi | Ronald Kaplan | Tracy Holloway King | Sandra Kuebler | Dekang Lin | Jan Tore Lønning | Christopher Manning | Yusuke Miyao | Joakim Nivre | Stephan Oepen | Kenji Sagae | Nianwen Xue | Yi Zhang
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Framework and Cross-Domain Parser Evaluation

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Context Inducing Nouns
Charlotte Price | Valeria de Paiva | Tracy Holloway King
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning for Answering Questions

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Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks
Stephen Clark | Tracy Holloway King
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks

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Designing Testsuites for Grammar-based Systems in Applications
Valeria de Paiva | Tracy Holloway King
Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Grammar Engineering Across Frameworks

2007

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ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing
Timothy Baldwin | Mark Dras | Julia Hockenmaier | Tracy Holloway King | Gertjan van Noord
ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing

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Pruning the Search Space of a Hand-Crafted Parsing System with a Probabilistic Parser
Aoife Cahill | Tracy Holloway King | John T. Maxwell III
ACL 2007 Workshop on Deep Linguistic Processing

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Precision-focused Textual Inference
Daniel Bobrow | Dick Crouch | Tracy Holloway King | Cleo Condoravdi | Lauri Karttunen | Rowan Nairn | Valeria de Paiva | Annie Zaenen
Proceedings of the ACL-PASCAL Workshop on Textual Entailment and Paraphrasing

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The Impact of Deep Linguistic Processing on Parsing Technology
Timothy Baldwin | Mark Dras | Julia Hockenmaier | Tracy Holloway King | Gertjan van Noord
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Parsing Technologies

2004

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Speed and Accuracy in Shallow and Deep Stochastic Parsing
Ron Kaplan | Stefan Riezler | Tracy H. King | John T. Maxwell III | Alex Vasserman | Richard Crouch
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT-NAACL 2004

2003

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Statistical Sentence Condensation using Ambiguity Packing and Stochastic Disambiguation Methods for Lexical-Functional Grammar
Stefan Riezler | Tracy H. King | Richard Crouch | Annie Zaenen
Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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The PARC 700 Dependency Bank
Tracy Holloway King | Richard Crouch | Stefan Riezler | Mary Dalrymple | Ronald M. Kaplan
Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-03) at EACL 2003

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Porting Grammars between Typologically Similar Languages : Japanese to Korean
Roger Kim | Mary Dalrymple | Ronald M. Kaplan | Tracy Holloway King
Proceedings of the 17th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation

2002

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Parsing the Wall Street Journal using a Lexical-Functional Grammar and Discriminative Estimation Techniques
Stefan Riezler | Tracy H. King | Ronald M. Kaplan | Richard Crouch | John T. Maxwell III | Mark Johnson
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Urdu and the Parallel Grammar Project
Miriam Butt | Tracy Holloway King
COLING-02: The 3rd Workshop on Asian Language Resources and International Standardization

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The Parallel Grammar Project
Miriam Butt | Helge Dyvik | Tracy Holloway King | Hiroshi Masuichi | Christian Rohrer
COLING-02: Grammar Engineering and Evaluation

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Adapting Existing Grammars: The XLE Experience
Ronald M. Kaplan | Tracy Holloway King | John T. Maxwell III
COLING-02: Grammar Engineering and Evaluation