Recent models of natural language processing employ statistical reasoning for dealing with the ambiguity of formal grammars. In this approach, statistics, concerning the various li...
For millions of people in less resourced regions of the world, text messages (SMS) provide the only regular contact with their doctor. Classifying messages by medical labels suppo...
This paper investigates using prosodic information in the form of ToBI break indexes for parsing spontaneous speech. We revisit two previously studied approaches, one that hurt pa...
Statistical models in machine translation exhibit spurious ambiguity. That is, the probability of an output string is split among many distinct derivations (e.g., trees or segment...
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) often relies on a context model or vector constructed from the words that co-occur with the target word within the same text windows. In most cases...
Bernard Brosseau-Villeneuve, Jian-Yun Nie, Noriko ...