multi-part words in english language are hyphenated and hyphen is used to separate different parts. persian language consists of multi-part words as well. based on persian morphology, half-space character is needed to separate parts of multi-part words where in many cases people incorrectly use space character instead of half-space character. this common incorrectly use of space leads to some s...

In this paper we propose a method for the automatic decipherment of lost languages. Given a non-parallel corpus in a known related language, our model produces both alphabetic mappings and translations of words into their corresponding cognates. We employ a non-parametric Bayesian framework to simultaneously capture both low-level character mappings and highlevel morphemic correspondences. This...

There are multiple reasons to expect that detecting the word order errors in a text will be a difficult problem, and detection rates reported in the literature are in fact low. Although grammatical rules constructed by computer linguists improve the performance of grammar checker in word order diagnosis, the repairing task is still very difficult. This paper presents an approach for repairing w...

Speech recognition performance is severely a ected when the lexical, syntactic, or semantic characteristics of the discourse in the training and recognition tasks di er. The aim of language model adaptation is to exploit speci c, albeit limited, knowledge about the recognition task to compensate for this mismatch. More generally, an adaptive language model seeks to maintain an adequate represen...

Speech recognition performance is severely affected when the lexical, syntactic, or semantic characteristics of the discourse in the training and recognition tasks differ. The aim of language model adaptation is to exploit specific, albeit limited, knowledge about the recognition task to compensate for this mismatch. More generally, an adaptive language model seeks to maintain an adequate repre...

First and foremost, I would like to thank Salim Roukos at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Ronald Rosenfeld at Carnegie Mellon University. The work presented here was conducted while I was a visitor at TJ Watson during the summer and fall of 1993 and it was an extension of my previous work on trigger language models done at TJ Watson the preceding summer. Salim was my supervisor and m...

A relatively self-contained subtask of natural language generation is sentence realization: the process of generating a grammatically correct sentence from an abstract semantic / logical representation. We propose a method where sentence realization is carried out using a simplified (context free) version of a large analysis grammar, combined with a statistical language model from the full (con...