While developing lexical resources for a particular language variety (Viennese), we experimented with a set of 5 different phonetic encodings, termed phone sets, used for unit sel...
We present two simple but effective smoothing techniqes for the standard language model (LM) approach to information retrieval [12]. First, we extend the unigram Dirichlet smoothi...
Current alternatives for language modeling are statistical techniques based on large amounts of training data, and hand-crafted context-free or finite-state grammars that are diff...
John Dowding, Beth Ann Hockey, Jean Mark Gawron, C...
In the EMIME project, we are developing a mobile device that performs personalized speech-to-speech translation such that a user’s spoken input in one language is used to produc...
In this paper we present a formal approach, based on meta-modelling and graph transformation, to the generation of environments for visual languages (VLs) supporting multiple view...