We describe a discriminatively trained sequence alignment model based on the averaged perceptron. In common with other approaches to sequence modeling using perceptrons, and in co...
Data Selection has emerged as a common issue in language technologies. We define Data Selection as the choosing of a subset of training data that is most effective for a given tas...
Jonathan Clark, Robert E. Frederking, Lori S. Levi...
Truecasing is the process of restoring case information to badly-cased or noncased text. This paper explores truecasing issues and proposes a statistical, language modeling based ...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Rouko...
We describe the Arabic broadcast transcription system elded by IBM in the GALE Phase 4 machine translation evaluation. Key advances over our Phase 3.5 system include improvements ...
Brian Kingsbury, Hagen Soltau, George Saon, Stephe...
We describe a machine learning approach for predicting sponsored search ad relevance. Our baseline model incorporates basic features of text overlap and we then extend the model t...
Dustin Hillard, Stefan Schroedl, Eren Manavoglu, H...