The University of Maryland participated in three TREC-6 tasks: ad hoc retrieval, cross-language retrieval, and spoken document retrieval. The principal focus of the work was evalu...
Until quite recently, extending Phrase-based Statistical Machine Translation (PBSMT) with syntactic structure caused system performance to deteriorate. In this work we show that i...
Lexicalized Tree Adjoining Grammar (LTAG) is an attractive formalism for linguistic description mainly because cff its extended domain of locality and its factoring recursion out ...
This paper describes a solution to lexical transfer as a trade-off between a dictionary and an ontology. It shows its association to a translation tool based on morpho-syntactical...
A core problem in data mining is to retrieve data in a easy and human friendly way. Automatically translating natural language questions into SQL queries would allow for the design...