Conventional wisdom dictates that synchronous context-free grammars (SCFGs) must be converted to Chomsky Normal Form (CNF) to ensure cubic time decoding. For arbitrary SCFGs, this...
In this paper, we propose a new shared task called HOO: Helping Our Own. The aim is to use tools and techniques developed in computational linguistics to help people writing about...
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...
We present a novel approach to relation extraction that integrates information across documents, performs global inference and requires no labelled text. In particular, we tackle ...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with "strangers". This makes ...