Speech interfaces to question-answering systems offer significant potential for finding information with phones and mobile networked devices. We describe a demonstration of spok...
In the Japanese language, as a predicate is placed at the end of a sentence, the content of a sentence cannot be inferred until reaching the end. However, when the content is comp...
Multimodal dialogue systems allow users to input information in multiple modalities. These systems can handle simultaneous or sequential composite multimodal input. Different coor...
In statistical machine translation, the generation of a translation hypothesis is computationally expensive. If arbitrary wordreorderings are permitted, the search problem is NP-h...
This paper presents a method for unsupervised discovery of semantic patterns. Semantic patterns are useful for a variety of text understanding tasks, in particular for locating ev...
In this paper we propose a competition learning approach to coreference resolution. Traditionally, supervised machine learning approaches adopt the singlecandidate model. Neverthe...
Xiaofeng Yang, Guodong Zhou, Jian Su, Chew Lim Tan
Standard IR systems can process queries such as “web NOT internet”, enabling users who are interested in arachnids to avoid documents about computing. The documents retrieved ...
This paper describes an alternative translation model based on a text chunk under the framework of statistical machine translation. The translation model suggested here first per...
This paper discusses the challenges and proposes a solution to performing information retrieval on the Web using Chinese natural language speech query. The main contribution of th...
Phrase level translation models are effective in improving translation quality by addressing the problem of local re-ordering across language boundaries. Methods that attempt to f...