We present a study of new word identification (NWI) to improve the performance of a Chinese word segmenter. In this paper the distribution and types of new words are discussed emp...
Compounding is a very productive process in German to form complex nouns and adjectives which represent about 7% of the words of a newspaper text. Unlike English, German compounds ...
— This paper describes the use of natural language route descriptions in the mobile robot navigation domain. Guided by corpus analysis and earlier work on coarse qualitative rout...
Abstract. In this paper we develop an algorithm for structured prediction that optimizes against complex performance measures, those which are a function of false positive and fals...
Active learning is well-suited to many problems in natural language processing, where unlabeled data may be abundant but annotation is slow and expensive. This paper aims to shed ...