This paper presents a method for learning a distance metric from relative comparison such as “A is closer to B than A is to C”. Taking a Support Vector Machine (SVM) approach,...
As an application of NLP to computer-assisted language learning(CALL) , we propose a diagnostic processing of Japanese being able to detect errors and inappropriateness of sentenc...
This paper presents a statistical, learned approach to finding names and other nonrecursive entities in text (as per the MUC-6 definition of the NE task), using a variant of the s...
Daniel M. Bikel, Scott Miller, Richard M. Schwartz...
One of the problems in part-of-speech tagging of real-word texts is that of unknown to the lexicon words. In (Mikheev, 1996), a technique for fully unsupervised statistical acquis...
In this paper, an educational software aimed to help learning Information Theory basics in a practical way is reported. The software, called IT-tutor-UV, can produce entropy analy...