Abstract. Term extraction is an important problem in natural language processing. In this paper, we propose a language independent statistical corpus-based term extraction algorith...
Video question answering aims to pinpoint answers in response to user's specified questions. However, most question answering technologies involve in integrating rich specifi...
Markov order-1 conditional random fields (CRFs) and semi-Markov CRFs are two popular models for sequence segmentation and labeling. Both models have advantages in terms of the typ...
In China-US Million Book Digital Library, output of the digitalization process is more than one terabyte of text in OEB and PDF format. To access these data quickly and accurately,...
This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics com...
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina...