As part of a project to construct an interactive program which would encourage children to play with language by building jokes, we developed a lexical database, starting from Word...
Ruli Manurung, Graeme Ritchie, Helen Pain, Annalu ...
This paper presents the first stochastic finite-state morphological parser for Turkish. The non-probabilistic parser is a standard finite-state transducer implementation of two-le...
In light of the serious problems with both illiteracy and information access in the developing world, there is a widespread belief that speech technology can play a significant ro...
Etienne Barnard, Johan Schalkwyk, Charl Johannes v...
The paper presents an in-depth analysis of a less known interaction between Kneser-Ney smoothing and entropy pruning that leads to severe degradation in language model performance...
Ciprian Chelba, Thorsten Brants, Will Neveitt, Pen...
This paper describes the first version of P (read “P flat”), a collection of Prolog predicates that aims to provide a pedagogical implementation of concepts and algorithms t...