We propose a bootstrapping approach to training a memoriless stochastic transducer for the task of extracting transliterations from an English-Arabic bitext. The transducer learns...
Term weighting strongly influences the performance of text mining and information retrieval approaches. Usually term weights are determined through statistical estimates based on s...
Human interpersonal face-to-face interaction can be considered in terms of successions of speech acts. These are utterances which contain an intention, and the act of creating an ...
We introduce a stochastic grammatical channel model for machine translation, that synthesizes several desirable characteristics of both statistical and grammatical machine transla...
This paper describes several tools related to the Ada language that were developed to support the teaching of a computer graphics course. These tools include an updated and improv...