Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Companies providing cloud-scale services have an increasing need to store and analyze massive data sets such as search logs and click streams. For cost and performance reasons, pr...
Syntax-based translation models should in principle be efficient with polynomially-sized search space, but in practice they are often embarassingly slow, partly due to the cost of...
Abstract. Use Cases are widely used for specifying systems, but their semantics are unclear in ways that make it difficult to apply use cases to complex problems. In this paper, we...
This paper addresses the problem of real-word spell checking, i.e., the detection and correction of typos that result in real words of the target language. This paper proposes a me...