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AIIA
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Comparison of Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Linguistically Informed IR in Question Answering
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Jörg Tiedemann
EPIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Improving Passage Retrieval in Question Answering Using NLP
Abstract. This paper describes an approach for the integration of linguistic information in passage retrieval in an open-source question answering system for Dutch. Annotation prod...
Jörg Tiedemann
CLEF
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Question Answering with Joost at CLEF 2007
We describe our system for the monolingual Dutch and multilingual English to Dutch QA tasks. First, we present a brief overview of our QA-system, which makes heavy use of syntacti...
Gosse Bouma, Geert Kloosterman, Jori Mur, Gertjan ...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Unsupervised optimal phoneme segmentation: Objectives, algorithm and comparisons
Phoneme segmentation is a fundamental problem in many speech recognition and synthesis studies. Unsupervised phoneme segmentation assumes no knowledge on linguistic contents and a...
Yu Qiao, Naoya Shimomura, Nobuaki Minematsu
ACL
2011
12 years 9 months ago
Better Hypothesis Testing for Statistical Machine Translation: Controlling for Optimizer Instability
In statistical machine translation, a researcher seeks to determine whether some innovation (e.g., a new feature, model, or inference algorithm) improves translation quality in co...
Jonathan H. Clark, Chris Dyer, Alon Lavie, Noah A....