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ACL
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Ordering Phrases with Function Words
This paper presents a Function Word centered, Syntax-based (FWS) solution to address phrase ordering in the context of statistical machine translation (SMT). Motivated by the obse...
Hendra Setiawan, Min-Yen Kan, Haizhou Li
TSD
2007
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
Using Query-Relevant Documents Pairs for Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval
The world wide web is a natural setting for cross-lingual information retrieval. The European Union is a typical example of a multilingual scenario, where multiple users have to de...
David Pinto, Alfons Juan, Paolo Rosso
CIKM
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A hybrid approach to NER by MEMM and manual rules
This paper describes a framework for defining domain specific Feature Functions in a user friendly form to be used in a Maximum Entropy Markov Model (MEMM) for the Named Entity Re...
Moshe Fresko, Binyamin Rosenfeld, Ronen Feldman
EMNLP
2007
13 years 7 months ago
What is the Jeopardy Model? A Quasi-Synchronous Grammar for QA
This paper presents a syntax-driven approach to question answering, specifically the answer-sentence selection problem for short-answer questions. Rather than using syntactic fea...
Mengqiu Wang, Noah A. Smith, Teruko Mitamura
NIPS
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Expectation Maximization and Posterior Constraints
The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is a widely used maximum likelihood estimation procedure for statistical models when the values of some of the variables in the model a...
João Graça, Kuzman Ganchev, Ben Task...