Abstract. As retrieval systems become more complex, learning to rank approaches are being developed to automatically tune their parameters. Using online learning to rank approaches...
We present a study of new word identification (NWI) to improve the performance of a Chinese word segmenter. In this paper the distribution and types of new words are discussed emp...
Ideally, a multi-strategy learning algorithm performs better than its component approaches. RISE is a multi-strategy algorithm that combines rule induction and instance-based learn...
Bracketing Transduction Grammar (BTG) is a natural choice for effective integration of desired linguistic knowledge into statistical machine translation (SMT). In this paper, we p...
Identification of transliterations is aimed at enriching multilingual lexicons and improving performance in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications including Cross ...