We present a directed Markov random field (MRF) model that combines n-gram models, probabilistic context free grammars (PCFGs) and probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA) fo...
Shaojun Wang, Shaomin Wang, Russell Greiner, Dale ...
In this paper, we describe a novel speaker adaptation algorithm based on Gaussian mixture weight adaptation. A small number of latent speaker vectors are estimated with non-negati...
An unsupervised method for word sense disambiguation using a bilingual comparable corpus was developed. First, it extracts statistically significant pairs of related words from th...
We present preliminary results concerning robust techniques for resolving bridging definite descriptions. We report our analysis of a collection of 20 Wall Street Journal articles...
Parsli is a finite-state (FS) parser which can be tailored to the lexicon, syntax, and semantics of a particular application using a hand-editable declarative lexicon. The lexicon...