This paper introduces dual decomposition as a framework for deriving inference algorithms for NLP problems. The approach relies on standard dynamic-programming algorithms as oracl...
Alexander M. Rush, David Sontag, Michael Collins, ...
We present a model for image retrieval in which images are represented both at the form level, as sets of physical features of the representing objects, and at the content level, a...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...
This paper analyzes a language for actions and the deontic modalities over actions -- i.e., the modalities permitted, forbidden and obligatory. The work is based on: (1) an action...
Abstract: Models are important artefacts that support human understanding and communication. Often software development involves specialists from a variety of fields, e.g. mathemat...
This paper presents two pivot strategies for statistical machine transliteration, namely system-based pivot strategy and model-based pivot strategy. Given two independent source-p...
Min Zhang, Xiangyu Duan, Vladimir Pervouchine, Hai...