Pronunciation-by-analogy(PbA) is an emerging technique for text-phoneme conversion based on a psychological model of reading aloud. This paper explores the impact of certain basic...
An important component of any generation system is the mapping dictionary, a lexicon of elementary semantic expressions and corresponding natural language realizations. Typically,...
In this paper, we discuss the problem of generating natural anaphora in assembly instructional texts. We rst present a detailed account of grammatical and lexical anaphora and we e...
The theoretical characterisation of multiword expressions (MWEs) is tightly connected to their actual occurrences in data and to their representation in lexical resources. We pres...
Translation systems are generally trained to optimize BLEU, but many alternative metrics are available. We explore how optimizing toward various automatic evaluation metrics (BLEU...
Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning, Daniel Jurafsk...