An N-gram language model aims at capturing statistical word order dependency information from corpora. Although the concept of language models has been applied extensively to handl...
Abstract. This paper explores the possibility of using a modified Expectation-Maximization algorithm to estimate parameters for a simple hierarchical generative model for XML retr...
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...
Abstract. Most cognitive studies of language acquisition in both natural systems and artificial systems have focused on the role of purely linguistic information as the central co...
Disfluent speech adds to the difficulty of processing spoken language utterances. In this paper we concentrate on identifying one disfluency phenomenon: fragmented words. Our d...