Statistical machine translation (SMT) systems for spoken languages suffer from conversational speech phenomena, in particular, the presence of speech dis uencies. We examine the i...
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) results contain not only ASR errors, but also disfluencies and colloquial expressions that must be corrected to create readable transcripts. We...
Graham Neubig, Yuya Akita, Shinsuke Mori, Tatsuya ...
Automatic content scoring for free-text responses has started to emerge as an application of Natural Language Processing in its own right, much like question answering or machine ...
Current statistical machine translation (SMT) systems are trained on sentencealigned and word-aligned parallel text collected from various sources. Translation model parameters ar...
Spyros Matsoukas, Antti-Veikko I. Rosti, Bing Zhan...
Translation systems are generally trained to optimize BLEU, but many alternative metrics are available. We explore how optimizing toward various automatic evaluation metrics (BLEU...
Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning, Daniel Jurafsk...