McClosky et al. (2006a;<cite> 2006b</cite> ) proceed as follows: sentences * Now affiliated to Lalic, Université Paris 4 La Sorbonne. from the LA Times newspaper are parsed by a firststage generative statistical parser trained on some seed training data (WSJ Sections 2-21) and the nbest parse trees produced by this parser are reranked by a discriminative reranker.