Discriminative learning methods are widely used in natural language processing. These methods work best when their training and test data are drawn from the same distribution. For...
The MT engine of the Janus speech-to-speech translation system is designed around four main principles: 1 an interlingua approach that allows the e cient addition of new languages,...
Monika Woszczyna, Matthew Broadhead, Donna Gates, ...
Most state-of-the-art wide-coverage parsers are trained on newspaper text and suffer a loss of accuracy in other domains, making parser adaptation a pressing issue. In this paper ...
We describe two corpora of question and answer pairs collected for complex, open-domain Question Answering (QA) to enable answer classification and re-ranking experiments. We deli...
Syntactic consistency is the preference to reuse a syntactic construction shortly after its appearance in a discourse. We present an analysis of the WSJ portion of the Penn Treeba...