The design of practical language applications by means of statistical approaches requires annotated data, which is one of the most critical constraint. This is particularly true f...
Marco Dinarelli, Alessandro Moschitti, Giuseppe Ri...
Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) addresses the problem of extracting semantic meaning conveyed in an utterance. The traditional knowledge-based approach to this problem is very...
Word alignment plays a central role in statistical MT (SMT) since almost all SMT systems extract translation rules from word aligned parallel training data. While most SMT systems...
Grid search and manual search are the most widely used strategies for hyper-parameter optimization. This paper shows empirically and theoretically that randomly chosen trials are ...