User logs of search engines have recently been applied successfully to improve various aspects of web search quality. In this paper, we will apply pairs of user queries and snippe...
This paper presents an empirical study on how different selections of input translation systems affect translation quality in system combination. We give empirical evidence that t...
In this paper, several approaches for language portability of dialogue systems are investigated with a focus on the spoken language understanding (SLU) component. We show that the...
In this paper, we present a simple and effective method to address the issue of how to generate diversified translation systems from a single Statistical Machine Translation (SMT)...
Statistical machine translation is quite robust when it comes to the choice of input representation. It only requires consistency between training and testing. As a result, there ...