Abstract. The TextMap-TMT cross-language question answering system at USC-ISI was designed to answer Spanish questions from English documents. The system is fully automatic, includ...
Abdessamad Echihabi, Douglas W. Oard, Daniel Marcu...
This paper introduces deep syntactic structures to syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). We use a Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG) parser to obtain the de...
Automatic transliteration problem is to transcribe foreign words in one's own alphabet. Machine generated transliteration can be useful in various applications such as indexi...
We present a novel paradigm for statistical machine translation (SMT), based on a joint modeling of word alignment and the topical aspects underlying bilingual document-pairs, via...
Hindi and Urdu share a common phonology, morphology and grammar but are written in different scripts. In addition, the vocabularies have also diverged significantly especially in ...