TREC
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
This paper reports our efforts on developing a language modeling approach to passage question answering. In particular, we address the following two problems: (i) generalized lang...
ACL
1998
13 years 5 months ago
1998
Language modeling is to associate a sequence of words with a priori probability, which is a key part of many natural language applications such as speech recognition and statistic...
NAACL
2004
13 years 5 months ago
2004
We demonstrate a new research approach to the problem of predicting the reading difficulty of a text passage, by recasting readability in terms of statistical language modeling. W...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
We extended language modeling approaches in information retrieval (IR) to combine collaborative filtering (CF) and content-based filtering (CBF). Our approach is based on the anal...
LREC
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
News articles about the same event published over time have properties that challenge NLP and IR applications. A cluster of such texts typically exhibits instances of paraphrase a...
LREC
2008
13 years 5 months ago
2008
In this paper we present an overview on the development of a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system for Khmer, the official language of Cambodia, spoken by ...
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
Exploiting lexical and semantic relationships in large unstructured text collections can significantly enhance managing, integrating, and querying information locked in unstructur...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper presents a novel approach to language modeling for voice search based on the idea and method of statistical machine translation. We propose an n-gram based translation ...