This paper describes a probabilistic answer selection framework for question answering. In contrast with previous work using individual resources such as ontologies and the Web to...
We introduce an answer typing strategy specific to quantifiable how questions. Using the web as a data source, we automatically collect answer units appropriate to a given how-q...
The task of selecting and ordering information appears in multiple contexts in text generation and summarization. For instance, methods for title generation construct a headline b...
This paper addresses the problem of classifying Chinese unknown words into fine-grained semantic categories defined in a Chinese thesaurus. We describe three novel knowledge-based...
This paper introduces the use of speech translation technology for a new type of voice-interactive Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) application. We describe a computer game...
A new architecture for identifying and interpreting temporal expressions is introduced, in which the large set of complex hand-crafted rules standard in systems for this task is r...
We propose three new features for MT evaluation: source-sentence constrained n-gram precision, source-sentence reordering metrics, and discriminative unigram precision, as well as...