Conditional Random Fields (CRFs; Lafferty, McCallum, & Pereira, 2001) provide a flexible and powerful model for learning to assign labels to elements of sequences in such appl...
Thomas G. Dietterich, Adam Ashenfelter, Yaroslav B...
We study automata for capturing the transformations in practical natural language processing systems, especially those that translate between human languages. For several variation...
The fundamental properties of the class QUASI of quasi-relabeling relations are investigated. A quasi-relabeling relation is a tree relation that is dened by a tree bimorphism (Ï...
This paper describes a noisy channel model of speech repairs, which can identify and correct repairs in speech transcripts. A syntactic parser is used as the source model, and a n...
We describe the name analysis and pronunciation component in the German version of the Bell Labs multilingual text-tospeech system. We concentrate on street names because they enc...