This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
We present a novel method for inducing synchronous context free grammars (SCFGs) from a corpus of parallel string pairs. SCFGs can model equivalence between strings in terms of su...
We propose a novel HMM-based framework to accurately transliterate unseen named entities. The framework leverages features in letteralignment and letter n-gram pairs learned from ...
Bing Zhao, Nguyen Bach, Ian R. Lane, Stephan Vogel
While computers have defeated the best human players in many classic board games, progress in Go remains elusive. The large branching factor in the game makes traditional adversar...
Christopher Fellows, Yuri Malitsky, Gregory Wojtas...
We present an approach to pronoun resolution based on syntactic paths. Through a simple bootstrapping procedure, we learn the likelihood of coreference between a pronoun and a can...