A natural language generation system must generate expressions that allow a reader to identify the entities to which they refer. This paper describes the creation of referring-exp...
Jill Nickerson, Stuart M. Shieber, Barbara J. Gros...
We describe the use of energy function optimisation in very shallow syntactic parsing. The approach can use linguistic rules and corpus-based statistics, so the strengths of both ...
This paper describes the Arabic broadcast transcription system fielded by IBM in the GALE Phase 3.5 machine translation evaluation. Key advances compared to our Phase 2.5 system ...
George Saon, Hagen Soltau, Upendra Chaudhari, Step...
We are developing a cross-media information retrieval system, in which users can view specific segments of lecture videos by submitting text queries. To produce a text index, the ...
In this paper we investigate the use of linguistic information given by language models to deal with word recognition errors on handwritten sentences. We focus especially on error...