—This paper is concerned with the application of a conversational agent and expert system to provide a natural language interface to a database. Typically, natural language datab...
This paper presents a novel approach to the unsupervised learning of syntactic analyses of natural language text. Most previous work has focused on maximizing likelihood according...
As a principled approach to capturing semantic relations of words in information retrieval, statistical translation models have been shown to outperform simple document language m...
State-of-the-art question answering (QA) systems employ termdensity ranking to retrieve answer passages. Such methods often retrieve incorrect passages as relationships among ques...
Hang Cui, Renxu Sun, Keya Li, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Sen...
This paper presents a comparative study of five parameter estimation algorithms on four NLP tasks. Three of the five algorithms are well-known in the computational linguistics com...
Jianfeng Gao, Galen Andrew, Mark Johnson, Kristina...