Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
When training the parameters for a natural language system, one would prefer to minimize 1-best loss (error) on an evaluation set. Since the error surface for many natural languag...
This paper presents a suite of methods and results for the semantic disambiguation of WordNet glosses. WordNet is a resource widely used in natural language processing and artific...
Finding opinionated blog posts is still an open problem in information retrieval, as exemplified by the recent TREC blog tracks. Most of the current solutions involve the use of e...
Syllable-to-word (STW) conversion is important in Chinese phonetic input methods and speech recognition. There are two major problems in the STW conversion: (1) resolving the ambi...