35"ansfer-based Machine Translation systems require a procedure for choosing the set; of transfer rules for generating a target language translation from a given source langu...
We present a new approach to learning a semantic parser (a system that maps natural language sentences into logical form). Unlike previous methods, it exploits an existing syntact...
Abstract. Both XML and Lisp have demonstrated the utility of generic syntax for expressing tree-structured data. But generic languages do not provide the syntactic richness of cust...
Database query languages can be intimidating to the nonexpert, leading to the immense recent popularity for keyword based search in spite of its significant limitations. The holy ...
Statistical language modeling has been successfully used for speech recognition, part-of-speech tagging, and syntactic parsing. Recently, it has also been applied to information r...