TREC
2003
14 years 2 months ago
2003
This paper reports our efforts on developing a language modeling approach to passage question answering. In particular, we address the following two problems: (i) generalized lang...
ACL
1998
14 years 2 months ago
1998
Language modeling is to associate a sequence of words with a priori probability, which is a key part of many natural language applications such as speech recognition and statistic...
NAACL
2004
14 years 2 months ago
2004
We demonstrate a new research approach to the problem of predicting the reading difficulty of a text passage, by recasting readability in terms of statistical language modeling. W...
EMNLP
2006
14 years 2 months ago
2006
We extended language modeling approaches in information retrieval (IR) to combine collaborative filtering (CF) and content-based filtering (CBF). Our approach is based on the anal...
LREC
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
News articles about the same event published over time have properties that challenge NLP and IR applications. A cluster of such texts typically exhibits instances of paraphrase a...
LREC
2008
14 years 2 months ago
2008
In this paper we present an overview on the development of a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system for Khmer, the official language of Cambodia, spoken by ...
CIKM
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
2005
Springer
Exploiting lexical and semantic relationships in large unstructured text collections can significantly enhance managing, integrating, and querying information locked in unstructur...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2008
IEEE
This paper presents a novel approach to language modeling for voice search based on the idea and method of statistical machine translation. We propose an n-gram based translation ...