... relative toeach other.4.1 StatisticalLanguage Models Statistical LMs predict the probability that a partic-ular word sequence will occur. The most commonlyused statisticallanguage model is the ... using statisticallanguage models.In this paper, we also use support vectormachines to combine features from tradi-tional reading level measures, statistical language models, and other language ... and Good-man, 1999). We used the SRI Language ModelingToolkit (Stolcke, 2002) for language model training.Our first set of classifiers consists of one n-gram language model per class c in the set...
... general, the SBC is a parameter that issensitive to a generation system’s capability such asits competence in reference expression generation. If a generation system does not have a robust ap-proach ... significantly bet-ter sentence generation outcomes than awidely adopted approach.1 IntroductionThe problem of sentence boundary determination innatural languagegeneration exists when more thanone ... Computational LinguisticsInstance-based Sentence Boundary Determination by Optimization forNatural Language Generation Shimei Pan and James C. ShawIBM T. J. Watson Research Center19 Skyline DriveHawthorne,...
... zero-frequency problem. Al- though it has been studied in many areas such as speech recognition, statisticallanguage modeling and text compression, no previous work has exam- ined on the smoothing ... times is c/(n + r). 923 Japanese OCR Error Correction using Character Shape Similarity and StatisticalLanguage Model Masaaki NAGATA NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories 1-1 ... novel OCR error correction method for languages without word delimiters that have a large character set, such as Japanese and Chinese. It consists of a statistical OCR model, an approxi- mate...
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... Two decades of statistical language modeling: Where do we go from here? In Proceed-ings of IEEE:88(8).Rosenfeld R. 2000. Incorporating Linguistic Structureinto StatisticalLanguage Models. ... comparison of in-grammar recognition performance.3 Language modellingTo generate the different trigram language modelswe used the SRI language modelling toolkit (Stol-cke, 2002) with Good-Turing ... K., Jonson R., Ranta A, Young Steve.2006. SLM generation in the Grammatical Frame-work. Deliverable 1.3, TALK project.Xu W. and Rudnicky A. 2000. Language modeling fordialog system? In Proceedings...
... modelsfor language generation, see e.g., Barzilay and Lee(2002), who use lattices, or Mairesse et al. (2010),who use dynamic Bayesian networks.2 Generation SpacesWe are concerned with the generation ... Text Generation. Proceeding of the 6th International Con-ference on Natural LanguageGeneration (INLG).Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuay´ahuitl, and Jette Viethen.2011. Optimising Natural Language ... Methodson Natural Language Generation, pages 337–361,Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany. Springer.Irene Langkilde and Kevin Knight. 1998. Generation that exploits corpus-based statistical knowledge....
... proposes a method for statistical para-phrase generation. The contributions are as fol-lows. (1) It is the first statistical model spe-cially designed for paraphrase generation, whichis based ... Selection and Paraphrasein a Meaning-Text Generation Model. In C´ecile L.Paris, William R. Swartout, and William C. Mann(Eds.): Natural LanguageGeneration in ArtificialIntelligence and Computational ... experimentsto evaluate the proposed methods.3 Statistical Paraphrase Generation 3.1 Differences between SPG and SMTDespite the similarity between PG and MT, the statistical model used in SMT cannot be...
... a general software libraryfor language modeling, the GRM Library, that includesmany other text and grammar processing functionalities.1 Motivation Statistical language models are crucial components ... described to constructa language model based on a weighted automaton. When, the language defined by the classes, isa code, the transducer is unambiguous.Denote now by the language model constructedfrom ... ofmany modern natural language processing systems suchas speech recognition, information extraction, machinetranslation, or document classification. In all cases, a language model is used in...
... describes and comparesa number of statistical and machinelearning techniques for ordering se-quences of adjectives in the context ofa natural languagegeneration system.1 The problemThe ... Langkilde and Kevin Knight. 1998b. The practi-cal value of n-grams in generation. In Proceedingsof the International Natural Language Generation Workshop, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.Fernando Pereira, ... dataset and constructed a back-off bigram model from the remaining 90% usingthe CMU-Cambridge statisticallanguage model-ing toolkit (Clarkson and Rosenfeld, 1997). Wethen evaluated the model by...
... 1986. Description-Directed Natural Language Generation. Proceedingm el tAe Ninth IJCAI Conference, Los Angeles. 84. McKeown, K.R., 1982. Genera~ng Nahum /Language in l~qJm~ to Q~m~o~ ~ D~.~b~e ... both styles is described. 1 Introduction PAULINE (Planning And Uttering Language In Natural Environments) is a languagegeneration program that is able to realize a given input in a number ... nature of languagegeneration and the way that generators of the future will have to be structured. One insight pertains to the problems encoun- tered when the various tasks of generation...
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... Then, we addtwo NLP-oriented features, as described below: a statistical language model and a measure of tensedifficulty.4.1 The language modelThe lexical difficulty of a text is quite an elaboratephenomenon ... LinguisticsCombining a StatisticalLanguage Model with Logistic Regression toPredict the Lexical and Syntactic Difficulty of Texts for FFLThomas L. Franc¸oisAspirant FNRSCENTAL (Center for Natural Language ... the sub-title corpus, because we think it gives a more ac-curate image of everyday language, which is the language FFL teaching is mainly concerned with.The frequencies were changed into probabilities,and...
... speeding-up of natural language generation. Its main advantage for NLG is that the complexity of the (linguistically oriented) decision making process during natural languagegeneration can be ... Therefore, the EBL approach is also very interesting for natural languagegeneration (NLG). Informally, NLG is the production of a natural language text from computer-internal representa- tion of ... be generated. 218 Applying Explanation-based Learning to Control and Speeding-up Natural LanguageGeneration Giinter Neumann DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 66123 Saarbriicken, Germany neumann@df...
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... Criteria in LanguageGeneration Manfred Stede Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Toronto M5S 1A4, Canada mstede~cs.toronto.edu 1 Introduction In natural languagegeneration ... Lexical Selection and Paraphrase in a Meaning-Text Generation Model. In C. L. Paris, W. R. Swartout, and W. C. Mann, editors, Natu- ral LanguageGeneration in Artificial Intelligence and Computational ... case of conflict, a random choice is made. 6 Summary and Future Work An important task in languagegeneration is to choose the words that most adequately fit into the ut- terance situation...