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NLPRS
2001
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Simple Closed-Class/Open-Class Factorization for Improved Language Modeling
We describe a simple improvement to ngram language models where we estimate the distribution over closed-class (function) words separately from the conditional distribution of ope...
Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans
ACL
2001
13 years 8 months ago
Improvement of a Whole Sentence Maximum Entropy Language Model Using Grammatical Features
In this paper, we propose adding long-term grammatical information in a Whole Sentence Maximun Entropy Language Model (WSME) in order to improve the performance of the model. The ...
Fredy A. Amaya, José-Miguel Benedí
COLING
2008
13 years 8 months ago
A Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Framework to Train a Semantic Parser from an Un-annotated Corpus
We propose a hybrid generative/discriminative framework for semantic parsing which combines the hidden vector state (HVS) model and the hidden Markov support vector machines (HMSV...
Deyu Zhou, Yulan He
ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
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13 years 8 months ago
Effective Term Weighting for Sentence Retrieval
A well-known challenge of information retrieval is how to infer a user's underlying information need when the input query consists of only a few keywords. Question Answering (...
Saeedeh Momtazi, Matthew Lease, Dietrich Klakow
ACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Intelligent Selection of Language Model Training Data
We address the problem of selecting nondomain-specific language model training data to build auxiliary language models for use in tasks such as machine translation. Our approach i...
Robert C. Moore, William Lewis