Abstract. Anyone offering content in a digital library is naturally interested in assessing its performance: how well does my system meet the users' information needs? Standar...
Abstract--We describe some high-level approaches to estimating confidence scores for the words output by a speech recognizer. By "high-level" we mean that the proposed me...
We present a novel approach to recognizing Textual nt. Structural features are constructed from abstract tree descriptions, which are automatically extracted from syntactic depend...
Conventional sentence compression methods employ a syntactic parser to compress a sentence without changing its meaning. However, the reference compressions made by humans do not ...
Search engines present fix-length passages from documents ranked by relevance against the query. In this paper, we present and compare novel, language-model based methods for extr...