We develop a method for predicting query performance by computing the relative entropy between a query language model and the corresponding collection language model. The resultin...
In this work we show how interactivity in a voice-enabled question answering application may improve speech recognition. We allow the user to provide a target named entity before ...
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) was originally defined to represent Web content, but it is increasingly used to define languages, such as XPL, that are used for coding execut...
The use of statically compiled search networks for ASR systems using huge vocabularies and complex language models often becomes challenging in terms of memory requirements. Dynam...
This work addresses the problem of classifying the genre of text, which is useful for a variety of language processing problems. We propose statistics of POS histograms as classiï...
Sergey Feldman, Marius A. Marin, Mari Ostendorf, M...