In adding syntax to statistical MT, there is a tradeoff between taking advantage of linguistic analysis, versus allowing the model to exploit linguistically unmotivated mappings l...
This paper describes how external resources can be used to improve parser performance for heavily lexicalised grammars, looking at both robustness and efficiency. In terms of robu...
The premise of the work presented in this chapter is that much of the existing work on the generation of referring expressions has focused on aspects of the problem that appear to ...
We investigate using topic prediction data, as a summary of document content, to compute measures of search result quality. Unlike existing quality measures such as query clarity t...
Given a collection of points representing geographic data we consider the task of delineating boundaries based on the features of the points. Assuming that the features are binary...