This paper investigates the combination of word-alignments computed with the competitive linking algorithm and well-established IBM models. New training methods for phrase-based st...
All questions are implicitly associated with an expected answer type. Unlike previous approaches that require a predefined set of question types, we present a method for dynamical...
Educators are interested in essay evaluation systems that include feedback about writing features that can facilitate the essay revision process. For instance, if the thesis state...
Jill Burstein, Daniel Marcu, Slava Andreyev, Marti...
We present a novel approach to distributionalonly, fully unsupervised, POS tagging, based on an adaptation of the EM algorithm for the estimation of a Gaussian mixture. In this ap...
We tackle the challenge of kinship verification using novel feature extraction and selection methods, automatically classifying pairs of face images as "related" or &quo...
Ruogu Fang, Kevin D. Tang, Noah Snavely, Tsuhan Ch...