We show that unseen words account for a large part of the translation error when moving to new domains. Using an extension of a recent approach to mining translations from compara...
For sentence compression, we propose new semantic constraints to directly capture the relations between a predicate and its arguments, whereas the existing approaches have focused...
Query expansion is an effective technique to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. Although hand-crafted lexical resources, such as WordNet, could provide more...
Supervised word sense disambiguation requires training corpora that have been tagged with word senses, which begs the question of which word senses to tag with. The default choice...
We present a novel hierarchical prior structure for supervised transfer learning in named entity recognition, motivated by the common structure of feature spaces for this task acr...