The end-to-end performance of natural language processing systems for compound tasks, such as question answering and textual entailment, is often hampered by use of a greedy 1-bes...
Jenny Rose Finkel, Christopher D. Manning, Andrew ...
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...
It is widely recognized that the proliferation of annotation schemes runs counter to the need to re-use language resources, and that standards for linguistic annotation are becomi...
Truecasing is the process of restoring case information to badly-cased or noncased text. This paper explores truecasing issues and proposes a statistical, language modeling based ...
Lucian Vlad Lita, Abraham Ittycheriah, Salim Rouko...
Speech interfaces to question-answering systems offer significant potential for finding information with phones and mobile networked devices. We describe a demonstration of spok...