An unsupervised discriminative training procedure is proposed for estimating a language model (LM) for machine translation (MT). An English-to-English synchronous context-free gra...
Zhifei Li, Ziyuan Wang, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Jason E...
We present a method for extracting selectional preferences of verbs from unannotated text. These selectional preferences are linked to an ontology (e.g. the hypernym relations foun...
Retrieval in historic documents with non-standard spelling requires a mapping from search terms onto the historic terms in the document. For describing this mapping, we have develo...
Compounding is a very productive process in German to form complex nouns and adjectives which represent about 7% of the words of a newspaper text. Unlike English, German compounds ...
Language usage over computer mediated discourses, like chats, emails and SMS texts, significantly differs from the standard form of the language. An urge towards shorter message l...