Exploiting lexical and semantic relationships in large unstructured text collections can significantly enhance managing, integrating, and querying information locked in unstructur...
In this paper, we address a unique problem in Chinese language processing and report on our study on extending a Chinese thesaurus with region-specific words, mostly from the fina...
Recently, dependency grammar has become quite popular in relatively free word-order languages. We encounter many structural ambiguities when parsing a sentence using dependency gr...
Entity detection and tracking is a relatively new addition to the repertoire of natural language tasks. In this paper, we present a statistical language-independent framework for ...
Radu Florian, Hany Hassan, Abraham Ittycheriah, Ho...
We describe a generative probabilistic model of natural language, which we call HBG, that takes advantage of detailed linguistic information to resolve ambiguity. HBG incorporates...
Ezra Black, Frederick Jelinek, John D. Lafferty, D...