Hierarchical phrase-based (HPB) translation provides a powerful mechanism to capture both short and long distance phrase reorderings. However, the phrase reorderings lack of conte...
We introduce the Spherical Admixture Model (SAM), a Bayesian topic model for arbitrary 2 normalized data. SAM maintains the same hierarchical structure as Latent Dirichlet Allocat...
Joseph Reisinger, Austin Waters, Bryan Silverthorn...
Abstract. This paper addresses an aspect of sign language (SL) recognition that has largely been overlooked in previous work and yet is integral to signed communication. It is the ...
Abstract. Prosody has been actively studied as an important knowledge source for speech recognition and understanding. In this paper, we are concerned with the question of exploiti...
Tree based translation models are a compelling means of integrating linguistic information into machine translation. Syntax can inform lexical selection and reordering choices and...