The Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning features a shared task, in which participants train and test their learning systems on the same data sets. In 2007, as in...
In this paper we describe a biography summarization system using sentence classification and ideas from information retrieval. Although the individual techniques are not new, asse...
We address the issue of judging the significance of rare events as it typically arises in statistical naturallanguage processing. We first define a general approach to the problem...
We investigate the impact of parse quality on a syntactically-informed statistical machine translation system applied to technical text. We vary parse quality by varying the amoun...
We discuss different strategies for smoothing the phrasetable in Statistical MT, and give results over a range of translation settings. We show that any type of smoothing is a bet...