In adding syntax to statistical MT, there is a tradeoff between taking advantage of linguistic analysis, versus allowing the model to exploit linguistically unmotivated mappings l...
Finding semantically related words is a first step in the direction of automatic ontology building. Guided by the view that similar words occur in similar contexts, we looked at t...
We evaluate discriminative parse reranking and parser self-training on a new English test set using four versions of the Charniak parser and a variety of parser evaluation metrics...
We have been developing a spoken language system to recognize and understand spontaneous speech. It is difficult for such systems to achieve good coverage of the lexicon and gramm...
We present an integrated approach to speech and natural language processing which uses a single parser to create training for a statistical speech recognition component and for in...