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UAI
1997
13 years 9 months ago
Lexical Access for Speech Understanding using Minimum Message Length Encoding
The Lexical Access Problem consists of determining the intended sequence of words corresponding to an input sequence of phonemes (basic speech sounds) that come from a low-level p...
Ian E. Thomas, Ingrid Zukerman, Jonathan J. Oliver...
CSL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
User simulation in a stochastic dialog system
We present a new methodology of user simulation applied to the evaluation and refinement of stochastic dialog systems. Common weaknesses of these systems are the scarceness of the...
Francisco Torres, Emilio Sanchis, Encarna Segarra
JCIT
2007
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13 years 7 months ago
A Tool to Personalize the Ranking of the Documents Returned by an Internet Search Engine
Internet search engines identify web pages that contain user-specified keywords, and then rank these pages according to their (heuristically assessed) relevance to the user’s qu...
Wadee S. Alhalabi, Miroslav Kubat, Moiez A. Tapia
MT
2010
96views more  MT 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Monte Carlo techniques for phrase-based translation
Recent advances in statistical machine translation have used approximate beam search for NP-complete inference within probabilistic translation models. We present an alternative ap...
Abhishek Arun, Barry Haddow, Philipp Koehn, Adam L...
ACL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
Discriminative Pruning for Discriminative ITG Alignment
While Inversion Transduction Grammar (ITG) has regained more and more attention in recent years, it still suffers from the major obstacle of speed. We propose a discriminative ITG...
Shujie Liu, Chi-Ho Li, Ming Zhou