The amount of readily available on-line text has reached hundreds of billions of words and continues to grow. Yet for most core natural language tasks, algorithms continue to be o...
In this paper, we compare the relative effects of segment order, segmentation and segment contiguity on the retrieval performance of a translation memory system. We take a selecti...
This paper proposes the use of uncertainty reduction in machine learning methods such as co-training and bilingual bootstrapping, which are referred to, in a general term, as ‘c...
In this paper, we present a learning approach to the scenario template task of information extraction, where information filling one template could come from multiple sentences. ...
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...