ACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
2001
We present two language models based upon an "immediate-head" parser -our name for a parser that conditions all events below a constituent c upon the head of c. While al...
ACL
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
Recent text and speech processing applications such as speech mining raise new and more general problems related to the construction of language models. We present and describe in...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
We propose a new hierarchical Bayesian n-gram model of natural languages. Our model makes use of a generalization of the commonly used Dirichlet distributions called Pitman-Yor pr...
ACL
2006
13 years 5 months ago
2006
The trend in information retrieval systems is from document to sub-document retrieval, such as sentences in a summarization system and words or phrases in question-answering syste...
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
The intersection of tree transducer-based translation models with n-gram language models results in huge dynamic programs for machine translation decoding. We propose a multipass,...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Abstract. In this paper we address the problem of searching for knowledgeable persons within the enterprise, known as the expert finding (or expert search) task. We present a proba...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Abstract. We show that several previously proposed passage-based document ranking principles, along with some new ones, can be derived from the same probabilistic model. We use lan...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Even in a massive corpus such as the Web, a substantial fraction of extractions appear infrequently. This paper shows how to assess the correctness of sparse extractions by utiliz...
ACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
In this paper, we propose a novel discriminative language model, which can be applied quite generally. Compared to the well known N-gram language models, discriminative language m...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Grounded language models represent the relationship between words and the non-linguistic context in which they are said. This paper describes how they are learned from large corpo...