In TREC-9, we participated in the English-Chinese Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) track. Our work involved two aspects: finding good methods for Chinese IR, and findin...
Jianfeng Gao, Jian-Yun Nie, Jian Zhang, Endong Xun...
Several recent efforts in statistical natural language understanding (NLU) have focused on generating clumps of English words from semantic meaning concepts (Miller et al., 1995; ...
Stephen Della Pietra, Mark Epstein, Salim Roukos, ...
We propose new methods to exploit contemporaneous text, such as on-line news articles, to improve language models for automatic speech recognition and other natural language proce...
If a macromolecule is described by curvilinear coordinates or rigid constraints are imposed, the equilibrium probability density that must be sampled in Monte Carlo simulations in...
In adding syntax to statistical MT, there is a tradeoff between taking advantage of linguistic analysis, versus allowing the model to exploit linguistically unmotivated mappings l...