Rating-scale evaluations are common in NLP, but are problematic for a range of reasons, e.g. they can be unintuitive for evaluators, inter-evaluator agreement and self-consistency...
In this paper, we present a sentence simplification method and demonstrate its use to improve intent determination and slot filling tasks in spoken language understanding (SLU) ...
An empirical study has been conducted investigating the relationship between the performance of a generative language model in terms of perplexity and the corresponding informatio...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Keith van Rijsberge...
—Often stakeholders, such as developers, managers, or buyers, want to find out what software development processes are being followed within a software project. Their reasons in...
We propose a new approach to language modeling which utilizes discriminative learning methods. Our approach is an iterative one: starting with an initial language model, in each i...