Recent research has demonstrated the strong performance of hidden Markov models applied to information extraction--the task of populating database slots with corresponding phrases...
This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
Constructing tractable dependent probability distributions over structured continuous random vectors is a central problem in statistics and machine learning. It has proven diffic...
Linear models have enjoyed great success in structured prediction in NLP. While a lot of progress has been made on efficient training with several loss functions, the problem of ...
Many of the recent, and more effective, retrieval models have incorporated dependencies between the terms in the query. In this paper, we advance this query representation one st...