This paper describes discriminative language modeling for a large vocabulary speech recognition task. We contrast two parameter estimation methods: the perceptron algorithm, and a...
Brian Roark, Murat Saraclar, Michael Collins, Mark...
In this paper, we propose a multi-criteriabased active learning approach and effectively apply it to named entity recognition. Active learning targets to minimize the human annota...
Dan Shen, Jie Zhang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou, Chew L...
Coreferential information of a candidate, such as the properties of its antecedents, is important for pronoun resolution because it reflects the salience of the candidate in the l...
Xiaofeng Yang, Jian Su, Guodong Zhou, Chew Lim Tan
We present the results of an experiment on extending the automatic method of Machine Translation evaluation BLUE with statistical weights for lexical items, such as tf.idf scores....
Temporal relation resolution involves extraction of temporal information explicitly or implicitly embedded in a language. This information is often inferred from a variety of inte...