Contradiction Detection (CD) in text is a difficult NLP task. We investigate CD over functions (e.g., BornIn(Person)=Place), and present a domain-independent algorithm that automa...
Alan Ritter, Stephen Soderland, Doug Downey, Oren ...
This paper explores the use of set expansion (SE) to improve question answering (QA) when the expected answer is a list of entities belonging to a certain class. Given a small set...
Richard C. Wang, Nico Schlaefer, William W. Cohen,...
Syntactic word reordering is essential for translations across different grammar structures between syntactically distant languagepairs. In this paper, we propose to embed local a...
This paper presents a graph-theoretic model of the acquisition of lexical syntactic representations. The representations the model learns are non-categorical or graded. We propose...
NLP tasks are often domain specific, yet systems can learn behaviors across multiple domains. We develop a new multi-domain online learning framework based on parameter combinatio...
To improve the Mandarin large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR), a unified framework based approach is introduced to exploit multi-level linguistic knowledge. In th...
Xinhao Wang, Jiazhong Nie, Dingsheng Luo, Xihong W...
Minimum-error-rate training (MERT) is a bottleneck for current development in statistical machine translation because it is limited in the number of weights it can reliably optimi...
We introduce a method for solving substitution ciphers using low-order letter n-gram models. This method enforces global constraints using integer programming, and it guarantees t...
Translation rule extraction is a fundamental problem in machine translation, especially for linguistically syntax-based systems that need parse trees from either or both sides of ...