This paper discusses the application of the Expectation-Maximization (EM) clustering algorithm to the task of Chinese verb sense discrimination. The model utilized rich linguistic...
Language models for speech recognition tend to be brittle across domains, since their performance is vulnerable to changes in the genre or topic of the text on which they are trai...
We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of...
Prosody is an important cue for identifying dialog acts. In this paper, we show that modeling the sequence of acousticprosodic values as n-gram features with a maximum entropy mod...
Language software applications encounter new words, e.g., acronyms, technical terminology, loan words, names or compounds of such words. Looking at English, one might assume that t...